inspired from a post at lifehacker.com i’ve spent a little time thinking about how to organzie my ideas. i’m supposed to be trading in my ideas, but i don’t really have a good way of keeping trak of them. i’ve been through the sketchbook, the moleskin notebook entering items into a PDA, emailing myself, tinkering with an ‘idea’ blog, text files on my laptop, random notes in the back of a book on the subway, or in a notebook during class. Almost everytime i’m writing or entering an idea into one of these forms i’m overcome with the anxiety that it’s getting lost, that the idea is not being filed in the ‘perfect’ filing system, and would thus be lost forever, and the world deprived of the greatness that could have been wrought upon it. maybe the best idea is actually writing / typing the idea down. usually it is nothing, an idea for a project that only has to ‘live’ for a few weeks at most, usually a day or three. but it is the act of writing it down that actualizes it in my brain, well i hope, at leat until i sort all this out.

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It was written on February 18th, 2005 at 2:18 am
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