: Re: How do you keep track of projects/ideas until you have time to write them down? I've read the answers to this question but they focus on getting ideas written down pretty much as they occur,

@Kristi637

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There's the Memory Palaces method, which dates back to antiquity. There are whole books written about it, but here's a much simplified version:

Imagine you are standing on a street. Stretched out in front of you are ten objects, representing the ten numbers from one to ten. One is a giant bun. Two is a shoe. Three is a bee, and so forth. To remember something, create a vivid mental image of it interacting with the "number object." For instance if your first scene is two people fighting, imagine them fighting on top of the bun. Then when you go back to remember it, just picture the bun, and the other image will automatically come back to you. This will get you up to ten remembered items, in order.

The theory behind it is that the really tough thing about memory is that it doesn't have an index. This method creates an index.

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