Brain Dump

[u/Designer-Audience-38]

Does anyone have a better name for the concept of Brain Dump? I really like jotting down everything I have going on, but I don’t like labeling my page “brain dump.” Anybody have any other fun, creative names for this?

[u/Sim_sala_tim]

A few that come to mind:

• Mind Vault
• Overflow
• Unfiltered Ideas
• Headspace
• Thought Playground
• Thought Spill
• Spark Collector

[u/uki-kabooki → u/Sim_sala_tim]

I like overflow cause that's what it feels like 😂

[u/Squaally → u/Sim_sala_tim]

I love those!! Especially Thought Playground and Unfiltered Ideas. Thought Playground sounds fun and not intimidating, and Unfiltered Ideas sounds fun, too, like ‘go crazy.’ I may title Brain Dump pages with Thought Playground for Unfiltered Ideas!

[u/Designer-Audience-38 → u/Sim_sala_tim]

Love these - thank you!

[u/Diligent_Pineapple35]

I had a coworker whose native language was not English and he couldn’t remember the term “brainstorm” and instead called it an “Idea Tornado” and now we all call it that.

[u/Designer-Audience-38 → u/Diligent_Pineapple35]

Love that!

[u/MusicalMawls]

I call mine the pensieve like in Harry Potter!

[u/mks351 → u/MusicalMawls]

This is such a good idea! I love this!!

[u/laureidi → u/MusicalMawls]

As a huge Harry Potter nerd who’s had several HP spreads in previous BuJos and is planning on having a few in this one too — I love this so much and I am definitely stealing it!! Thank you stranger (even though I’m not OP) :)

Edit: autocorrect

[u/AmyOtherAmy]

I like mind sweep or mind unwind. I have also labeled pages 'drain bump' in the past.

[u/hannyxoxo]

i saw someone with a side quests page and i LOVED it

[u/hungry-peach123]

I hate it as well -- I usually call it "Notes & Ideas" or something similar

[u/penprickle]

Auxiliary Backup Brain

[u/Additional-Tension-3]

Drain Bump?

[u/laisalia]

I had it only a few times in my setup and i believe i called it "thoughts" or "random thoughts"

[u/bolt009]

Spilled Ink, Thought Jot, Mind flow, Gear Turning (bonus if u use sricky notes and theyre shaped like gears)

[u/Squaally]

I get that…whenever I watch a cooking video and the person says they’re making a “dump cake” or even “dump everything into the bowl,” I lose my appetite. Maybe Brain Escape? Random Ideas? Stuff I’m Thinking About?

[u/Kestrel_Iolani]

In our house, we use the phrase "letting your brain off leash." So I guess it would be the off-leash park?

[u/couscous-moose]

Junk drawer.

[u/Kymalyn]

This question has been posted before & I wrote down a couple ideas: - anything & everything - mindsweeper - brainstorm - cerebral squirts (I like this one, lol) - think tank - inbox - the purge

[u/peregrinaprogress]

Unravelings. You could even use the concept of balls of yarn with loose threads with connecting or developing ideas (if you wanted to use an artistic theme).

[u/charm_of_chance]

I don't use one but I'd also probably want to call it something different! I'd maybe go for Miscellaneous Thoughts or Thoughts & Things

[u/No_Sir3397]

I just call it a journal because I do it every day. Sometimes twice haha

[u/MamaCantCatchaBreak]

I have done “thought bubbles”, “shower thoughts”

[u/ZukerZoo]

I’ve recently referred to that page as catch-all

[u/Sam_Tru]

My Brain on Paper

My Paper Brain

Mind Release

My Later List

All My Things

What Going On…

[u/wanderingrosey]

Notes

[u/Kareeliand]

I never really understood what the point is, so I decided that what is known as Brain Dump in BuJo world, is probably what Ryder Carroll calls Rapid Logging, where you catch everything to sort later. But I’d love to know how people actually use it..

[u/Sea_Storm9695]

I use talk to text in notes, and call it what it is (to me): Brain Dump

[u/Joylime]

I call it "brain drain" which doesn't feel exactly nice but that's exactly what it feels like for me - draining out the spinning thoughts so I can be with myself

[u/KaB00mLe]

I use Parking Lot - I first heard it from teaching workshops where if people start going on a tangent you write it in the Parking Lot and we get to it when we can

[u/JungleDryad]

Capture

[u/bevwdi]

I usually title that page “On My Mind”.

[u/AdorablePanda24]

Random Chasm

[u/phoenix0r]

Stream of consciousness

[u/5AMjuliet]

I call mine 'mind field' bad joke on minefield that I did once and simply never changed

[u/Ok_Wave2581]

I think Ryder Carroll calls it a "Mental Inventory" in the Bullet Journal Method Book. I've always liked that phrasing.

[u/HauntingGold]

I do "Penny Thoughts" like the phrase "a penny for your thoughts". It's a place where I just empty my brain of anything I want to, important things to remember or just stupid nonsense. If I have actually important things I will also put it in a different space as well, with more detail if I want. But yeah, Penny Thoughts works really well for me.

[u/cestimpossible]

sometimes i call it a mind unwind, but i can't remember who i picked it up from

[u/bedrotgf]

marooned musings