Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Grayerbeard from the Discord server asks, I was just listening to The David Sedaris Desert Island Disks on the BBC, and he commented that he carries a notebook everywhere to gather material for his writing. I have been using Obsidian for note taking, but somehow I also like writing on old envelopes with ideas, etc Since you also need to keep coming up with ideas, what is your favourite way to record them?

My list of episode ideas is kept in a Google Docs file. I have access to it on my desktop, laptops, phone, and tablets, so I almost always have access to it. Because it is in the cloud, I can move from device to device and not have to worry about version control.

Likewise, I also use the Apple Notes app for similar things. It is on all my devices and it synchs across everything. The ability to access the documents from anywhere is too valuable for me to want to use paper for something like this.