# Create an inbox to store your thoughts

Date: 2020-06-25 12:37:23 +08:00Date modified: 2021-08-07 11:06:17 +08:00

While our brain is good at storing ideas, it has other things to worry about such as the random thoughts passing by each day, context switching from one task to another, and generating new ideas. A lot of the newer thoughts have more chance to be gone in a few hours. For this, you want to make a dedicated repository. The following list shows a few examples what you can store into dedicated inboxes.

- Store a dedicated inbox for randomly generated ideas.

- Tasks can then be tracked, reminding what and/or when to be done.

- You can create an inbox for various links, Collecting information to learn new skills.

- Create roadmaps to stay on track as a way to learn new skills.

- Store a sketchbook for your narratives allowing you to build your initial imagining of creating a world especially for fantasy settings.

Like our emails, our writing inbox should be cleaned up each time we visit our inbox. Not all of them are going to be important so feel free to remove entries that are not in need.

If you want to store an idea for an indefinite future (e.g., a project idea, future hobbies) that you cannot surely do now, you can then create a dedicated inbox. In practice, this is great as a starter point for Fleeting notes or a reading list to Maintain your own digital library.

Beware, this Advice shouldn't be taken literally. Not all thoughts are worthy of being noted, the same principle how some thoughts are not worthy to stay in your list. Don't get into the business of unnecessary note-taking of jotting every thoughts as Unnecessary optimizations cripple progress.

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- Note-taking
- Evergreen notes
- Fleeting notes
- Future-proofing your notes is only worth if the future is relevant
- Collecting information only feels like progress
- Note-taking should make better thinking
- Collecting information to learn new skills
- Store a sketchbook for your narratives