How many great ideas go up in vapor because you didn't write it down?

yeah.. it is the same with me.., since i was bought up by and studied in a good school i was put in a right way from my childhood that whatever we absorb or if we come across a new thing,or if a new idea strikes us, we should note it down in our diary or any book!!! but then i cant say that i dint suffer but due to my laziness i lost and suffered a lot in my life!!! since from my childhood used to think something on other and i used to construct new ideas in my mind but im absent minded too ,ill forget things very soon!!! so im always asked to carry a small diary and pen ,i feel very shy to have before others but atlast i was the sufferer!now am in research field definitely atleat for my proffession sake i try o commit myself by carrying diary and pen to not let my ideas go off in air!!! in future i might invent some thing useful to this world too!!!(i hope so)

i have my own blog site. i don't earn from blogging but i love to just blog. and whenever i get to think of a great idea to write on my blog, after a few seconds, when i am about to sit down infront of my computer, i suddenly can't remember what to write. makes me upset most of the time. that's why even when in bed, i always have a pen and a paper with me just in case i think of something good to write. that's better that way.

I carry paper with me when I am at Church, and take notes, I carry a notebook with me on the Bus to work, and while I am at work, in case I think of something to write, and then having one with me all of the time, might not be too bad of an idea either. Maybe I will put a notebook in my car so if I think of something to Write about I can jot it down then so I do not forget about it later.

I always carry a notebook and pen with me. If i'm out & about and have an idea for a design that's suddenly come into my head - I'll quickly sketch it so that I don't forget. Same thing happens to me re walking into a room. I think it's called a "senior moment" ! Only kidding lol.

A lot! I basically don't get to sleep at once when I lay down in bed, that's the time I think about how my day went and a lot of things just go through my mind but sometimes when the lights are already turned off and you're already cuddled up in your blanket then you're too lazy to get up to write down your ideas, that's why there's really a lot of ideas that goes to waste cause when you wake up in the morning, you won't remember it anymore wahhh!

I think there much more great ideas which go down the drain as they are never worked upon. And still many more are there which are never shared with others! Writing of these ideas actually leaves some scope for us and others to work on them at a later stage. I would to know about resources from where I can get to know about other ideas and even share my own.

I know that feelling well. I hate it to. I don't know why I forget maybe a short circuit in my brain but as you said you walk inot a room and then wonder why did I come in here? I do that. I don't have tablets carrying it around with me but I do have them in everyroom so I can write stuff down so I won't forget. I get them cheap at the begining of school year when they are .10 cents a piece and buy all I can. Yep as we are relaxing and are mind is going over the day or we are laying there thinking about things is when I think we get our most insight to things because our minds are less cluttered by other things and is relaxed. I have gotten out of bed sometimes to write stuff down or draw it so I wouldn't forget it. Drives my hubby nuts. I am thinking of taking something called Focus for brain functions to see if it will help me rememeber better.

OK, this is even worse. Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, half asleep, and had a really good idea but you were so sleepy you couldn't get up and write it down and you fell back asleep. The next day, hours later, you recall having had some great idea but you can't remember what it was. That is like hell. And you just hope it will come back at some time.

Anytime I think of something and I dont have a piece of paper at hand I just put it in my cellphone so that way the idea doesnt go to waste.

I don't forget ideas,i have a very good memory which don't lets me down.I don't always remember large numbers as telephone numbers but thats why the mobile phone was invented.It's a good ideea to have a pencil and a notebook at you all the time because you never know when you will need it.

Yup, I know that feeling. My mind gets to running laps around way too many things at the same time and I'm lucky if I can finish a sentence before thinking of something else. I have a notebook for ideas also. It's a good idea to have one. In fact, you may want to write that down. ;0)

It not only happens to just you. It happens to me too. It happens to EVERYONE on the face of the Earth since the beginning of time. One thing that you can always do is carry around a small notebook and several pens. If you travel, this applies to you. Once you see something in your mind, jot it down QUICK! Ideas are like a flash of lightning that you are trying to record. One second it's there, and the next it is gone. Your notebook is your mental camera. Your pen is the shutter. Remember that, like now. Ideas = lightning. Notebook = camera. Pen/Pencil = shutter.

I have a terrible habbit of this. I have a ton of ideas that go nowwhere. Thankfully, I have good friends that listen to me mumble all the time. So I just ask them what I said to myself before and then I will remember it.

I enjoy writing bacause it make my time occupied. In writing also, I can create an innovative idea.

Way too many , if I have an idea while it's impossible to write ir down, lol, I actually try to assign it keywords or 'tags', that hearing a certain word later on will trigger the memory of the thought or idea.It works here, why not in the brain!

many a great ideas i know i have missed from the long time dur to improper diecision make by me only. If the decided ideas have been written down on the paper piece then i must have scanned it and make them a good fruit of that ideas. just take a example of the new year i make some resolution and good thing but they are in vapour now as i have missed some of these at this point of time.

this sounds just like me , but i often lose the pieces of paper.or lose interest in the idea. as to remembering day to day things , i have to write everything down as nothing would get done, we have too much crammed in our heads and there just isnt enough space to fit any more in.

i am the same way. im starting think my memory is going!! haha. i have to make a list of everything i need at the store, or i will forget something every single time! same with thoughts and ideas, i need to start keeping a paper and pen close by....if i can even remember to do that!

that happens to me all the time. walk into a room for something and by the time i get there i wonder why on earth i have gone into that room. so they i have to go back to the room in which i first thought of tht idea, have a look around and try find out what reminded me of it. makes me feel so stupid sometimes lol. i mean im only 18, i jst be losing my memory jst yet!!

also had that kind of dilema wherein, a thought just pop out in my mind then ill start to dig in more but then after all been said and finalized i my mind when im about to write it i'm having hard time to put those toughts in black and white.. ending that bright idea will just be put into waste...