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Perudoesitbetterthanu
Perudoesitbetterthanu aka Alan is a 21.71 year old boy, has been a member since May 29, 2005, has scored 2340 submissions, giving an average score of 2.61.
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  May 17 '09 by Perudoesitbetterthanu        4 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
So after spending some time with one of my friends who carries a moleskin notepad and furiously jots down things periodically, I thought it was funny that he would have one and I would not, being a designer and all. I know as a designer and a working stiff, its often harder to remember little ideas through out the day and manage to still carry them over to the computer. When I get home, I can barely remember what i ate for lunch let alone a crazy amazing idea that briefly flashed through my mind during a money transaction of said lunch.

I know its obviously good practice to have some sort of utensil that will help remember these ideas, but I have never took it up (mostly because I've never really operated that way, I'm a pretty disorganized person sometimes). So how do you guys keep track of your ideas? I feel as though I've let some really good ones slip through the cracks all these years haha.

xiv
   xiv on May 17 '09 at 12:27pm
on the side margins of school work and notes.
Perudoesitbetterthanu
   Perudoesitbetterthanu on May 17 '09 at 12:29pm
Mine are full of random doodles.
psherman42
psherman42 on May 17 '09 at 12:35pm
Sometimes in the middle of the night, I think of something that's funny, then I go get a pen and I write it down. Or if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny.
-Mitch Hedberg

also, for me, if I think of something only once and don't remember it again, it probably wasn't too great in the first place. I will somewhat randomly remember things a few days later and if thats the case, its usually because it wasn't a terrible idea and I might make a doodle of it then.
Perudoesitbetterthanu
   Perudoesitbetterthanu on May 17 '09 at 12:46pm
oh yeah, not every idea is a winner by any means. But a sloppy idea could make for something more concrete later if taken further. A place to develop them wouldn't be a bad thing. Weed out the good from the bad, at least then you will remember what train of thought you were in.
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