In this short monologue, the speaker shares a personal workflow for capturing fleeting ideas and preventing mental overload. They use the Things 3 task manager to dump ideas into an "over the horizon" list, assign future dates to each item, and rely on a weekly Friday review to resurface dated ideas. During the review they decide whether to delete the idea, move it into the current planning horizon (week/quarter), or push it further into the future, ensuring the brain has a dedicated space for ideas without the fear of losing them.
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when you just kind of like get everything out, especially if I'm feeling overwhelmed. But even if I'm just like walking on the beach or something, something hits me and I know it's not for this moment, I just like make sure I capture it, you know? And so I, I use, I've tried everything like under the sun. I've come back to what I found to be the most simplest thing right now, which is Things 3, which is kind of a very simple task manager. It's been around forever. And so I just dump that stuff out and then I have list that's just basically like over the horizon. And so I basically put it on the list and then I essentially will kind of date out into the future when I want to revisit it again. And I try to like go as long as I can let myself go without it being uncomfortable. So I'll be like, hey, like this idea is really cool, but I'm not going to think about it again for 6 weeks. And then on a Friday, because Friday is when I do my weekly reviews, anything that was dated for that Friday will pop back up. And then I'm like, okay, it's been 6 weeks. Actually, usually I don't know how long it's been because I don't like track that. It's just, I had pre-thought it. So then I just look at it again. I'm like, hey, is this still relevant? A lot of times I delete it. Cause I'm like, you know what? That was just a fleeting idea. And life has shown me that that wasn't even necessary. Or if it's still relevant, I'm like, hey, let's pull this into our next week or quarter or whatever it is. Or sometimes I just keep punting it out into the future. And that way I just know that my brain has a space for it and I'm not losing something that maybe it has fear of missing out on or losing a good idea. And that's really it.
