It’s happened to all of us, a great idea gets lost because it’s not captured. As David Allen has said “Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them”. If you have an iPhone then I have an app for you.

Squarespace – Note

This is a simple, easy to use app to capture your thoughts.

It lives in the lower righthand of the bottom tray on my iPhone. I can easily access it from any screen. This is by design since ease of use will make you use it.

Here’s why I like it:
* It opens to a blank screen with only the keyboard visible.
* You send with a swipe.
* You can choose various places to send your note.
* There is also record of what you sent.

The setup is simple. Swipe to the right to open the services screen. Pull down to enter the edit mode. Here you can link to Evernote, Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook, Google Drive, and email. Mostly I use email. I have it linked to my task manager. The email gets sent to my inbox and I process it later.

Using it is even simpler. Open the app – type your note – pull down to send.

Ubiquitous capture at its best!

To review your sent notes swipe left and you will see a list of notes.

You have to have a fast , simple and effective way to capture your thoughts so you can later process them.  I love using the iPhone as a capture device. I could always just open my task manger app and use that as a capture device, however the speed, ease of use and simple no distraction interface makes me love the Squarespace note app.

What do you use to capture that next great idea?