Logic 101: Maintaining your Treasure

The next section in this blog entry that I'm going to cover is how you retain all of those wonderful ideas that have obtained using the previous steps. Mr. Watts give us a directive that is outlined as:

Direct II. Use the most proper methods to retain that treasure of ideas which you have acquired;

for the mind is ready to let many of them slip, unless some pains and labour be taken to fix them upon the memory. And more especially let those ideas be laid up and preserved with the greatest care, which are most directly suited, either to your eternal welfare as a Christian, or to your particular station and profession in this life;

for though the former rule mends a universal acquaintance with things, yet it is but a more general and superficial knowledge that is required or expected of any man, in things which are utterly foreign to his own business; but it is necessary you should have a more particular and accurate acquaintance with those things that refer to your particular province and duty in this life, or your happiness in another.

OK, Justin that's all well and good, but am I supposed to do with that? I'm glad you asked that question, because there is a contemporary tool available to you to retain any and all ideas you may come up with:

Chandler - Chandler is a software application that is essentially a "To-Do" list on steroids. You can also access your calandar through a web portal and you can share lists and calandars between you and friends.

Goto Chandler for more details.

Notebook - I know this is old-school and if you have a Blackberry or a PDA, you can use that, but the bottom line is have some sort of material whereby you can record your ideas as they form in your brain, because internal memory only goes so far.