Using ScribeFire to Enhance Memory

I’ve had a problem for a while. I’d be working on an article and think up another while I was in the middle of writing the first one. I’d try to remember it, but of course by the time I finished the article, I couldn’t recall the new idea at all.

Today I was talking to a friend and the conversation sparked a couple blog ideas. So I opened up ScribeFire and typed the first one, intending to jot down some notes for the article (I prefer writing the actual articles on the blog because there’s not a way to set links to open on a new page using ScribeFire (or if there is, I haven’t found it yet)). Before I had one word written for the new article, I remembered another article I’d been wanting to write. So I saved the page, cleared the screen and added the second article’s title and notes.

I think this is going to work well. It will help my Mommy brain at least - mothers lose half their mental facilities as soon as a baby is born. Seriously! Oh, okay…we don’t really lose them, but it’s a major switch from being able to focus on one thing at a time to having to keep 1 thing (the baby) foremost in your thoughts while you’re still trying to do remember all the things you could before. So, a Mommy brain is a mind that is multitasked to the limit and can’t hold a thought more than a few minutes.

Okay, back to ScribeFire. I first heard Mike Mendel mention that he used it when he was doing the transcripts of the Thirty Day Challenge. Curious, I downloaded it (it’s a free program) and I’ve been using it ever since. It sits on your taskbar (the bar at the bottom of your browser) and pops up a resizable screen that acts like you’ve enlarged the taskbar (so it doesn’t actually cover any of the webpage you’re looking at, it just gives you a smaller viewing area). Since it’s attached to the browser, you can go to any webpage and still have what you’re writing sitting right there in front of you. Great when you’re researching information! Plus, you can drag and drop pictures in.