Yes, I know, it sounds a bit weird, but I’ve gotten into the habit of taking notes using Firefox’s Goggle search field. Basically, a few thoughts on posts came to my mind and I didn’t have any pen and paper at hand and I didn’t want to open a notepad.

I came up with a solution that proved to be a great way of jotting down some thoughts in a productive way. All I do is when something comes to mind, like writing a post on Adobe Buzzword (coming up), is I open a new tab (Ctr + T) and type “Adobe Buzzword” in the search field. I don’t even wait for it to load, I go back to what I was doing immediately.When I am ready to “process” these thoughts, I go to the tab with the search and I will remember that I wanted to write about and in addition, I have already started some research by searching for it. When you process you can decide to write it down somewhere else, save the page as a bookmark, or just delete it.

I actually have a separate Firefox window (Ctr + N) open for this because it keeps my thoughts separate (I work a lot in Firefox) and I can also batch bookmark all my ideas at once. You can do this by the bookmarks menu and selecting bookmark all tabs (Ctr + Shift + D). When you are ready to make another pass at them, just go to the bookmarks menu, select the folder where you stored them, right click and select open all in tabs. Be careful, because your current tab will also load one of the bookmarks.

You can play around with setting up folders for this as well, or maybe posting some of these to del.icio.us or some other bookmark site, there are quite a lot of possibilities. For now I just use this casually, but I will look into it a bit more when I get the time. If any of you have any ideas please do share.