How do you remember idea's?

How do you remember idea’s?

How often do you find yourself doing something completely unrelated to music when all of the sudden out of no where, an genius idea or solution to a problem just hits you. This is the power of your unconscious at work, which is way more capable then your conscious mind. Unfortunately due to it’s nature of hitting you with ideas at random times these ideas often never come to pass.

My question for you guys is what’s your method for keeping this ideas accessible for later follow through? I’m terrible for putting things in my phone when the idea hits (I hate being on my phone in the company of others, which is a large portion of my time).

  • Evernote
  • pen and notepad

I’m never without one or the other

I need to get a waterproof notepad for the shower.

Same here… I have binders full of ideas, from random to organized.. I like to keep all my ideas just incase i come across it years later and can actually do something with it. If writing isn’t your thing send yourself a text message or leave yourself voice memo’s on your phone.. Another option is a cheap handheld voice recorder. Have an idea, hit record and just speak it out, listen back when your in need of some inspiration..

Usually between getting the idea and pulling out a pen I forget what the idea was.

iphone notes

Yep evernote. :slight_smile:

i text it to myself, then I know to look through my texts to see what ideas i had in the last few days and try and work them out.

+1 for Evernote.

I’ve always wondered how producers remember parts of a track they think of in their head? It’s not like you can write it down can you?

either way i have my moleskine notebook with me or i use my iphone. but most of the time i forget about it to fast to react

My main methods are text messages, voice mail or sending myself an email. Depends on where I am and what is available to me. My hand held recorder is fun to play with to.,

What’s evernote?

But yeah - write everything down! I always have a notepad handy, and also use my phone for jotting down ideas.

I get TONS of ideas when I’m driving on the motorway. Only way I can think of for that situation is a voice recorder…

Of course you can!

sibelius.com

The shit!

I immediately yell it into my phone. This always works well in clubs.

I do this too, i was thinking the other day about this edit i could make to teenage crime, i immediately started recording me humming the beat to the phone like a total retard.

Sending myself emails or saving notes on my phone.

Quite often though I’ll look back in a day or two and I can’t make sense of my own shorthand.

+1

That’s what the Maschine app and the other simple beat making apps are good for.

once I dreamt of how to finish a track i was working on.
woke up and went to my studio until i finally finished the idea, it was awesome

here the finished result