It's one of the cliches of writing that you must record your ideas or they will disappear. In his Problogger blog, Darren Rowse had some specific ideas about a few different ways to do it:
" * Idea folder on desktop - for those times that the ideas hit me while I’m in front of my computer - I jot them as a text file and park them in a folder on my desktop.
* Memos on phone - I’m increasingly relying upon my phone to keep me organized (it’s synced with my computer’s calendar) but also to help me capture ideas. I’m constantly adding memos to myself.
* SMS yourself - since getting a phone with a better memo function I don’t do this as much but I used to text message myself all the time with ideas
* Leave yourself a voice message - sometimes it’s not practical to write yourself a memo or text message and you need to capture an idea verbally. I do this my calling my mobile phone, from my mobile phone which then diverts me to my voice mail service where I leave myself a message with the idea that’s buzzing around in my head. In a sense this becomes a dictaphone of ideas. In recent times I’ve stopped doing this and have started recording my ideas on my phone in video to replay later."
I would add that having a little digital tape recorder that you carry around is also useful--Olympus has one that is wafer-thin but holds many hours of recordings.
