Drafts

Drafts are the way to dump your brain as soon as possible into long lasting memory. If something is not ready to say out loud, to send in an email, or to publish in a post. You should draft it, record it, or otherwise capture it.

The purpose is not so much remembering as it is capturing the first magical moment of a thought, emotion or idea. Some of them will forever live in a draft state before they end up in the trash. Yet they all deserve to be captured.

1. An emotional email is best when you re-write it 3 times
2. A good idea is shaped with time. Capture the first one, iterate later.
3. An opinion that’s born out of tension is better thought twice before you share. The best and most useful way of writing drafts is messaging yourself. It mimics reality and gives you a proper dumpster which makes hard recovering items that you wrote down long ago[1]. A mix of my personal stuff stuff goes into Telegram, which is always at the tip of my fingers. Slack is mainly used for work, where I also message myself to draft. Notion always has a page at the far bottom of the list called DRAFT in capital letters. Within it there is a simple button at the top of the page that reads draft.

Much like openclaw has now been designed, when I remember there was this burning topic a week ago that I had to pick up, I head to my drafts, and search for it – sometimes I don’t find it – and that’s ok too.