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#+title: Create a writing inbox to store your thoughts
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One of the best practices for [[file:note-taking.org][Note-taking]] is writing [[file:20200625131209-fleeting_notes.org][Fleeting notes]] which are used to store essential information so that your brain doesn't have to.
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Our brain is not good for storing ideas, only creating and jumping between them.
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Since fleeting notes are only made for quickly capturing thoughts, its input is often messy.
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The very least we can do to consistently retrieve our messy thoughts is to put it in a place: a writing inbox where we store all of our fleeting notes.
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We can then revisit our inbox for recalling.
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In my case, I use the inbox for task management and writing [[file:evergreen-notes.org][Evergreen notes]].
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Like our emails, our writing inbox should be cleaned up each time we visit our inbox.
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Feel free to remove entries that are not in need and replace them with new ones.
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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 create an inbox for future ideas.
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(On the other hand, extending this system is closer to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done][Getting things done (GTD) method]].)
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