Remember To Check Back On Your Notes

Taking notes is a beautiful habit. It helps to write aboutanything which you need to refer in future, write down goals or just randomthoughts. You can do this in traditional paper or use any one of the notes appon your phone.

If you are a fan of typography then you can relate – it isamazing to see your ideas in a beautiful font, arranged with spaces and thetexture.

Do this as a daily habit, and soon you will have written toomany notes that they would be multiple scrolls on your phone.

At this point, the worse thing to happen is that you keepgetting ideas, but you don’t get back to your old notes. They are waiting deepdown, lost and asking for your consideration. But you are busy making newnotes.

How to tackle the situation where your habit of notes makinghas become a mess…

The best way is to incorporate a habit which allows havingorganized look at your notes, discarding some and taking actions along the way.Sure, you won’t be perfect or make the right choices all the time. But it’sabout getting to all of them and making decisions.

Periodic Visits

Every month, set a reminder on the weekend to go through allthe notes. Discard the ones where you won’t be pursuing them, delete the oneswhich have been done and fill out the ones which still feel enticing.

Maybe you can pin some of the ideas to the top so you canfocus on the coming next days. It happens a lot that the idea turns into aproject and gets done. But still, the notes exist, you can get rid of it. Theidea isn’t to remove the nostalgic things. Instead, you should de-clutter soyou can focus on the next project.

Also at times, you write something which seems promising atthe time. But when you have thought about, you aren’t willing to go ahead.

So it isn’t a fruitful exercise to keep those notes. And youneed the space for new things to come, so old ideas have to go.

Pin The App

When you are bored, the first app which you open is the onewhich has the most entertaining factor. And also the most distracting nature.At times, you would not look at the notes app for days.

You should focus on opening the notes app daily – not forlooking but for adding your ideas. And to do that efficiently, you can pin theapp on your home screen.

That way, the first thing you do is open that app and writedown your ramblings. Yes, initially, most of your ideas won’t make sense orwon’t amount to anything.

But at this stage, you are building a habit. And slowly itwill catch on like fire. The next thing you know is that you have too manyideas you want to write. And it comes to you at all times.

Now, maintain the habit of checking back on notes everymonth. That’s how you make them into awesome projects. And get the most out ofyour creative thinking.