One challenge I have as a blogger is stumbling across some interesting tidbit of information, thinking “You know, that would make a really great topic for a posting”, and then completely forgetting about it once I move on to something else. In an effort to better organize my thoughts (and reduce those excruciating episodes of writer’s block), I’m going to start using Google Notebook to catalog and annotate not just the interesting scraps of information I find on-line, but also the (very) occasional ideas and insights I might generate all by myself. I chose Google Notebook not because I’m a hopeless fanboy (although I suppose you could make the argument), but because I like how it’s easily accessible from within my browser and I can easily clip information from websites. And it’s probably less pretentious than me carrying around one of the hipster’s favored accouterments: the moleskine notebook. Not that I could actually write anything in a moleskine, but I’m just saying.
