Ideas and the benefits of journaling.
Ideas, like sunsets, are brilliant flashes of colour which, unless photographed are lost forever excepting as some grey shadowy recall in the recesses of our memory. By journaling our ideas and thoughts, the cognitive content is preserved, not to freeze it in time, but to use it to secure the base of a springboard for the fostering of still more ideas.
-- Lionel Hartley, Great Ideas Journal, Salubrity™ Seminars, 1998, reprinted 2004, (Introduction)