Isn’t it annoying when you’re out and about and you’re thinking about things you could write about pops into your head and as quick as it came it’s gone again! I suffer from this often and I’ve tried quite a few successful ways of storing my ideas for when I’m ready to write.

Why not try these methods of jotting them down in the future!

Simple Pen and Paper
If you have some pen and paper to hand, write down your ideas and take a little bit of time to write them in a bit more detail. This is the simplest way of getting your ideas down, but if your head is bulging with ideas then you may want to think about a different method of keeping your ideas as the paper may come a bit hard to hold!

The Mobile
A phone is a great way of storing information will not paper lying around and it can hold tons of information that you input into it. I usually just write a text message with my idea and save it as a draft.

Tell Someone!
They might think you’re a bit random, but say “Remember this for me later” and they will hopefully (if they don’t forget) remind you later so you don’t have to. Please note: This sometimes isn’t a really good method if you have friends/family that don’t remember a thing.

Association
The idea behind this method of keeping your ideas in your head is associating your idea with something else. If you want to remember your title, then make a sentence up that will jog your memory. A really bad example of this would be, if you want to write about your dog and then say to yourself (if you have a dog) I need to walk the dog later. I’m sure you can come up with something better than that!

Email Yourself
Simply send an email to your email address with your ideas in and they will be in your inbox when you return home. If you have access to a computer which has the internet and don’t have much time to write, this is a quick way of signing on, dropping your ideas and then moving on with whatever else you have to do. If you have access to your blog and don’t wish to email yourself then simply log into your blog and put your ideas in a draft and save it for when you get home to complete it.

Have your own method of remembering things? Please share it in a comment!

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