Post-It Notes Are My Best Friends

I don't know if it comes with the creative territory, but I'm obsessed with lists.  Every time I think of a new project (which is often) or am considering improvement on a current one (which happens almost as frequently) I just have to write it down.  Like, it bothers me if I can't put my thoughts to paper right now.  This can be a problem, as I tend to think a lot when I'm doing something mundane- say, walking to class, at work in the kitchens at school, or in the shower.  You know, places where writing is a bit more difficult (though I did discover Rite-in-the-Rain notebooks.  Mille grazie to my geology professors for assigning them to us!)

As a result of this obsessive-compulsive habit, I tend to have a lot of paper on me.  Old notebooks, mini notebooks, composition notebooks, the margins of my class notes, Post-It notes... If you can write on it, I probably have it stashed away somewhere I can find it quickly.  I've even used blank sticker labels at work once or twice because I just had the greatest idea ever that just had to be recorded!!!  This kind of bothers the environmentalist in me, especially because every project or subject just has to have its own notebook.  I have the same problem with my sketchbooks.  But typing it out on the computer just doesn't really feel them same.  Which doesn't really make sense, I guess, when you consider the amount of random Word documents and electronic Post-Its I have on my screen at any given time... 

My hypocrisy knows no bounds.  Also note the snazzy background from

Colonial Williamsburg's website.

Funny... My room is a space of entropic organized chaos, but when it comes to my art supplies or school work it must be organized exactly.  I claim selective creativity.  Or something.  I had a word in mind but I lost it.

Anyway.

I know I can't be the only one who does this.  But it'd be cool to hear a shout-out from my listy brethren, too.  Let me know all the wacky ways you keep your creative ideas down!