Regardless of the how true the previous statement might be I’ve recently discovered a service called Evernote.

To use it you just sign-up to the service and can then either enter notes (text, pictures, html whatever) through the web interface or download the desktop client and use that. It even has clients for mobile phones as well although I’ve not tried those.

One of the cooler features is that it will recognise text (even some of the my illegible handwriting) and automatically index it for searching. So you can snap a picture of a whiteboard with your phone or scan in a post-it you drew a diagram on and once it’s in Evernote it acts just like any other text note.

I’ve been using it to jot down all the random thoughts I have during the day about videogame design as well as copy quotes from interesting websites for later reference. The most notable change to my life has been that when I get home I can look at Evernote and spot things to write about or remind myself of things I need to do which I would have normally forgotten about while working.

I imagine this will become an integral part of my Design process in future and as it’s free I can hardly reccommend it enough.