keep a sketchbook

Here's a great post from Jason Santa Maria on why you should keep a sketchbook. How many times have you had that brilliant idea, that you swear you'd remember, but forgot an hour later?

And I'll take this one step further. Keep a paper sketchbook and a digital sketchbook. Your digital sketchbook can be a digital camera, your delicious links or some other tool. Not everyone's an illustrator - and sometimes a digital tool can better document a really cool texture, an inspirational website, or interesting person. Keep these things with you always!