This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

They say that we think 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts every single day.

Some of those thoughts are idle ruminations, like wondering, who are they?

How did they do the counting? Some of the thoughts are about

whether we really want a new I-watch, just standard thinking, right? Nothing particularly

noteworthy. But every now and then, just statistically, we'll have a really good idea.

Then someone on Facebook will say that our political party are poohy heads and their political

party is awesome,

and by the time that we've convinced them that they're wrong, that cure for cancer is gone

forever. Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg. You just tanked humanities hope to cure cancer. I hope you're

satisfied. If you're in a profession where you're paid to have good ideas, you need to

capture those ideas, store them, and be able to retrieve them when

and where you need them. Use a capture device. Since the ideas will come to you somewhere

between posting cat pictures and reading about Kim Kardashian's latest implants, you need to be

able to capture those ideas quickly and easily. For me, a smartphone is not the best way to do it. Smartphones are

slow to type on, they take way too long to unlock and configure, and between icons and

notifications, they have enough distractions that it can be really hard to keep the idea firmly

in mind until I have a chance to get it entered. As discussed in my episode on using one master

system to organize your

life, pen and paper are my tools of choice. For paper, a pocket-sized moliskinet journal is perfect.

It's super thin and flexible and it fits in a pocket. For pen, the Pentel P-07 with Navy ink,

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