When you’re in flow, you can’t tell signal from noise in real time. The insight that feels profound might be obvious tomorrow. The throwaway thought might be the seed of your best idea.
So don’t filter during capture. Filter later.
Write the ninth garden post even though the seventh was probably weak. Save the half-formed idea even though you’re not sure it’s real. Note the pattern even though it might just be a coincidence.
The cost of over-capturing is a few minutes of cleanup on Friday. The cost of under-capturing is a lost insight you’ll never recover — because you won’t remember what you forgot.
Capture is cheap. Ideas are expensive. The cull is where quality happens, not the capture.