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by hiimshort 1117 days ago
This has been a challenge for me to overcome as well. Notes never really worked for me and, of course, simply remembering everything is neither possible nor productive. Personally, I've struck a middle ground that I've called [1]"Boomerang Thoughts". The idea being that the default stance is to let ideas go, expecting the good, compelling ones to come back. It's seemed to improve my ability to focus on important projects in the present and have a more limited, curated list of things that I am driven to act on next.

[1] https://bytesize.xyz/boomerang-thoughts