[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":179},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-\u002Fblog\u002Fsomewhere-to-put-it":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":170,"description":171,"extension":172,"meta":173,"navigation":174,"path":175,"seo":176,"stem":177,"__hash__":178},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fsomewhere-to-put-it.md","Somewhere to put it",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":161},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,24,32,44,64,67,71,83,88,91,108,112,118,127,137,141,148,152,158],[10,11,12],"p",{},"You are four hundred words into your morning pages, finally saying the true\nthing about your week, when your brain — with impeccable timing — hands you\nthe answer to Thursday's problem. A good one, too.",[10,14,15],{},"An idea in flow is a gift and a distraction in the same instant. You can't\nignore it: it will hum there, underneath the writing, taking a little\nattention on every line until the page goes quiet. And you can't chase it\neither — reach for your phone to note it and the phone has opinions about\nwhat you should look at next; reach for a loose sheet of paper and you have\njoined the tragic tradition of loose sheets of paper, which is where ideas\ngo to be safe and never seen again.",[10,17,18],{},"What you actually need is five seconds and somewhere trustworthy to put it.",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"how-it-works","How it works",[10,25,26,27,31],{},"Start a line with ",[28,29,30],"code",{},"IDEA:"," — capitals, colon — and write the idea:",[33,34,35,38,41],"blockquote",{},[10,36,37],{},"…and I think that's why the launch felt flat, we told people what it does\ninstead of what it's for.",[10,39,40],{},"IDEA: rewrite the landing page around one person's Tuesday, not the feature list",[10,42,43],{},"Anyway. What I actually wanted to say about this week is…",[10,45,46,47,50,51,55,56,59,60,63],{},"That's the feature. The line stays in your entry, exactly where the thought\nhappened; the words count toward your 750 like any others, because you did\nwrite them. Errands work the same way with ",[28,48,49],{},"TODO:"," — ",[52,53,54],"em",{},"buy sandpaper"," has no\nbusiness interrupting a paragraph about your father, and now it doesn't have\nto. If mid-flow even the capitals feel like effort, type ",[28,57,58],{},"\u002Fidea"," or ",[28,61,62],{},"\u002Ftodo","\non a blank line and the app lays the line down for you, cursor ready.",[10,65,66],{},"Three in one morning? Fine. An idea is one line — everything up to the\nreturn — and the entry around it stays what it was: your writing, with a\nthought parked in the margin.",[20,68,70],{"id":69},"finding-them-back","Finding them back",[10,72,73,74,78,79,82],{},"Parking only gives calm if you trust the spot. On your stats page, beneath\nthe things you track, sits a small section called ",[75,76,77],"strong",{},"Captured",": ",[52,80,81],{},"idea — 7\nideas, todo — 3 to-dos",". Click one and you get the full list, newest first —\nevery idea you ever parked, each with its date:",[33,84,85],{},[10,86,87],{},"Sat, 18 July 2026 — rewrite the landing page around one person's Tuesday\nTue, 14 July 2026 — a winter version of the walking route\nSun, 12 July 2026 — ask M. about the workshop format she mentioned",[10,89,90],{},"Click a line and the entry opens with that exact sentence briefly lit, back\nin the morning it came from — which is often half the value, because the\nthree paragraphs around an idea are usually the reason you had it. From\nthere, copy what you need. If you want the whole list at once, each page has\na one-click CSV of everything, dates included.",[10,92,93,94,96,97,99,100,103,104,107],{},"And ",[28,95,30],{}," and ",[28,98,49],{}," are convention, not decree — any capitalised label\nwith a colon collects on its own page the same way. ",[28,101,102],{},"GIFT:"," in November.\n",[28,105,106],{},"RECIPE:"," when a dinner works out.",[20,109,111],{"id":110},"three-ways-it-lands","Three ways it lands",[10,113,114,117],{},[52,115,116],{},"Say you make things for a living."," Your morning pages are supposed to be\nabout you, but your product keeps gatecrashing — every honest paragraph\nabout energy or doubt shakes loose two feature ideas. You used to lose them,\nor worse, stop reflecting to go write them somewhere proper. Now they cost\none line each. On Friday you open your idea list next to the real backlog,\ncarry two across, and leave the rest — the journal keeps the original\nbraindump either way.",[10,119,120,123,124,126],{},[52,121,122],{},"Or you're planning a seventh birthday party."," Nothing profound: a cake to\norder, a neighbour to warn, bunting. The errands surface while you write\nbecause that is when your head is finally quiet enough to remember them.\n",[28,125,49],{}," each one and keep writing about what you were writing about. On\nSaturday, the list — with dates, in one place, instead of scattered across\nthree entries you'd have to re-read.",[10,128,129,132,133,136],{},[52,130,131],{},"Or there's the idea that keeps coming back."," The same one, every few\nmornings, presenting itself as new. Your head repeats what it fears you'll\nlose — that's what the reminding ",[52,134,135],{},"is",". The morning you write it down, it is\nwritten off: safely somewhere, findable, done being your responsibility to\nremember. It stops knocking. What returns instead, occasionally, is you — on\npurpose, to the list, to see if it still looks good.",[20,138,140],{"id":139},"what-it-will-not-do","What it will not do",[10,142,143,144,147],{},"There are no boards here, no statuses, no tags on your tags, no sync into\nyour project tool. An idea does not \"progress\" — it sits on its line, in\nyour words, until you come for it. This is deliberate, and it is the same\ndeliberateness as everywhere else in the app: a journal that tried to also\nbe your ideation tool would soon be neither. What people do ",[52,145,146],{},"next"," with an\nidea differs too much to build — the maker has a backlog, the parent has a\nkitchen calendar — so the handover is the simplest thing that works: copy it,\nor take the CSV. Capture, find back, carry out. The working-out belongs to\nthe tools of your trade; the having-of-it-in-peace belongs here.",[20,149,151],{"id":150},"the-head-you-get-back","The head you get back",[10,153,154,155,157],{},"The point was never the ideas. The point is the writing, and what the\nwriting does for you — and an unparked thought taxes exactly the attention\nthe writing runs on. Every ",[28,156,30],{}," line is attention returned: the thought\nis somewhere, you know where, and the page underneath your hands gets you\nback entirely.",[10,159,160],{},"Yes, your entry ends up a bit of a mess — reflection, then an idea about\nwork, then bunting. So what. Life isn't any different, and the pages are a\nrecord of a head actually emptying, which is what they were for. A journal\nthat captures your ideas doesn't become an ideas app. It becomes what it\nalways was, working slightly better: a quiet place where, for three pages a\nday, nothing — not even your own good ideas — gets to interrupt you.",{"title":162,"searchDepth":163,"depth":163,"links":164},"",2,[165,166,167,168,169],{"id":22,"depth":163,"text":23},{"id":69,"depth":163,"text":70},{"id":110,"depth":163,"text":111},{"id":139,"depth":163,"text":140},{"id":150,"depth":163,"text":151},"2026-07-19","Ideas arrive mid-sentence, and so do errands. On parking a thought without losing your page — IDEA:, TODO:, and getting your head back.","md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fsomewhere-to-put-it",{"title":5,"description":171},"blog\u002Fsomewhere-to-put-it","khL8rdJ5kMM3FTM_8HMR97-T6wuwL4_1cfC686mdSgo",1784483299811]