I've wondered if I should try that, because I agree -- memory and rumination can be a superb filter for importance. If it's an idea we organically think about, repeatedly, that's a signal of value, right? Whereas one we forget about ... is the opposite signal.

The thing that keeps me making lists is how frequently I find that an idea I dashed down four years ago, and -- regarded it, at the time, as too slight or too weird to interest any editor into -- suddenly appears, four years later, as "holy moses that's perfect / perfectly timed" etc.

So I keep on making keeping these huge sprawling files of ideas lol