Just finished reading a book for a book club I'm in called Theodore Roosevelt in the Field. Really enjoyable read--I mean, for starters, it's TR. Not sure there's a better specimen of manliness or grit out there (he embodied the strenuous life in nearly every way imaginable). Just wow. 

But here's why I'm posting about this here. The entire book is built, as best as I can figure, around two things: 1) Roosevelt was a man who did stuff. Lots of stuff. Amazing stuff. 2) He wrote it all down. Field journals, notes, sketches, short stories, detailed lists, you name it.

The book actually has scanned images every couple pages or so of his own handwritten journal pages. That's what was so moving about my reading the book while I'm trying to step into this Everbook/GTD state of mind. Writing things down has value.

Here's one quote (by Elliot Coues, a mentor of Roosevelt) I thought was apropos:

"Don't trust your memory; it will trip you up; what is clear now will grow obscure; what is found will be lost. Write down everything while it is fresh in your mind; write it out in full--time so spent now will be time saved in the end, when you offer your researches to the discriminating public. Don't be satisfied with a dry-as-dust item; clothe a skeleton fact, and breathe life into it with thoughts that glow; let the paper smell of the woods. There's a pulse in a new fact; catch the rhythm before it dies." 

Cheer's y'all! Do some good!