Have you also been told to write down your dreams or wishes for them to come true? Well, it’s true. Somehow when you put down all your ideas, see and read them on paper, you get a vision of them and the ideas become doable or achievable.

This is what David Allen, productivity consultant and author of Getting Things Done, meant when he said to use “capture tools” to be more productive. In other words, these capture tools are those things that help you capture your ideas and help you concretize them. Cool isn’t it?

Over at BNET is a video of David Allen talking about how to organize information by using capture tools like digital or paper notes to get it outside your head and onto your to-do list. But, he says, these tools only help if you take the next step in processing that information and checking it off the list.

HERE is the video.