Exactly — working on your blog, is working on your life.

I find I have to rewrite my stickies too. It’s part of my process. I only carry forward the most valuable, so it both let’s things naturally slough off and it gives me another chance to reprocess the information. It’s counter-intuitive, but I evolved to it over time.

My calendar is my best friend when it comes to allocating time for things, even if it’s to block off time for a batch of work.

Writing things down really helps a lot.

Instead of using a sticky pad I find it easier to jot things down into a calendar or a note book.

I find that the sticky notes have to be later rewritten or else I have a hard time keeping track of them and finding them later.

Vance

I think you teased out a great point and I remember doing the same thing. I used to rush through or context-switch to hop to my idea and neither worked well. I like that I can park my ideas now and be fully engaged in whatever I’m on.

I find writing down notes definitely helps me out, but not just when I’m consciously solving problems – sometimes I’ll be working on something totally unrelated and have an idea. In the past I had a tendency to try to rush and finish what I was doing to act on my idea, or drop it midstream hoping to come back to it, or worse – constantly remind myself of my idea every 2 minutes so I wouldn’t forget it, all the while trying to complete some unrelated task!

Now I have my laptop, my iphone, and notepads and notebooks everywhere – so if I ever have an idea, I just write it down, often in significant details. Just like you mentioned, it frees me up from having to remember it, and later when I have time I can give it the attention it deserves.