Think on paper. Keep the thread.
A field notebook for research that still connects when you get back to the desk.
A working week of notes
Salt and the night trainDock master interviewLine about attentionOpen question on memoryTuesday stand-upRecipe for the ledeMap of chapter twoWhat the editor cut
The whole loop is three moves.
Capture
Write the scrap before it cools. Halden files it on today's page.
Relate
Draw a link to the note that made you write this one.
Return
Search lands on the sentence, with the links still attached.
“I write while I walk, and the desk still has the thread when I sit down.”
Jonah Veld
Staff writer, North Line
Where a week of research goes.
Reading
Keep a source next to the claim it supports.
Meetings
A scrap from a call lands on the daily page.
Recall
Ask for a sentence you wrote last month.