I would recommend not doing that. The shower is for you the place to let your mind wander. If you want to capture that you will stress yourself and your last place where your mind was free will be gone.
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Which is exactly why he wants to capture the thoughts.
Not everyone is like you, don't assume they approach the shower the way you do.
I've solved long-standing technical work problems in the shower.
I don't think they are saying that you can't solve problems in the shower, but that this meditative thought process is limited in the first place by an intentional work mentality.
exactly what I wanted to express.
This is not true for everybody. Consider offering your view as an alternative perspective OP should consider, instead of presenting it as fact.
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Set your phone just outside the shower with a voice recording app on and recording?
Bonus points if you sing out the ideas, and even more if you can rhyme them.
A bold idea
Oh, how it lingers
Tiny cocks
For all of my fingers
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There are waterproof pencil and paper sets that you can attach to the wall with suction cups. I have a set and use it pretty frequently when I have some sudden shower inspiration that I don’t want to lose.
Fecal smearing, if you have tile, works pretty well.
Comments like this I wish I could upvote for the laugh and simultaneously downvote on principle lol. XD
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I mean, you could set your phone outside the shower and record your shower, just speak out your idea and transcribe it after the shower.
I just convince myself that they are not very good ideas. (RIP Mitch Hedburg).
My younger brother has afriends that is a Brazilian math wizard. He does his best work in the shower. He writes his thoughts on the steam in the shower glass and has a water proof camera nearby to take pictures before they vanish.
If you have glass partitions try a grease pencil or oil based crayon on the glass(There's another name but I'm brain-farting on it. Oil pastels, maybe. Gah, medication that effects your memory sucks.).
You could maybe fab up a thick glass pane with a plastic backer and keep it in the shower. Hanging it might be tricky. I used to love hitting up the weird leftover building supply type places or even flea markets for weird stuff to repurpose.
The white board idea works, but you'd need one, with pen, that is specifically water proof.
Maybe experiment with different pieces of plastic from your local big box or hardware store and a grease pencil.
Grease pencil should write on just about any surface in the shower.
Good idea!
Grease pen on the shower wall.
Seriously, I do this too! Then after my shower I’ll come back and take a photo with my phone so I don’t lose it.
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If there was ever a good use case for a voice assistant, this would be it.
Bath crayons
This is the correct answer!
I set up a mic on a stand right outside the shower curtain, and try to forget about it
I don't use them in the shower, but you can get wetnotes from stores that sell scuba gear. Something like this should be good https://scubapro.johnsonoutdoors.com/us/shop/accessories/wetnotes-underwater-notebook
I have not tested these. They...might work?
https://www.orvis.com/product/field-notes-waterproof-notebook-3-pack/3NAE4200.html
https://northernwoodsmen.com/rite-in-the-rain-all-weather-pen/?sku=RR-OR97
So many suggestions for putting your phone near the shower but outside of it... phones are waterproof now. I just bring my phone with me in the shower now, and use my notes app to write down anything I don't want to forget. I was already using it for a shower checklist, since I find it pretty hard to function in the shower. Also doubles as a way to consistently clean my phone, which is a nice plus, I likely wouldn't remember to specifically clean it very often otherwise.
If your phone has a charge port plug, make sure to keep that in during the shower, if it doesn't have a plug, keep the port oriented down, or you may have to wait a couple hours to be able to charge after. I've had my last couple phones in the shower hundreds of times now over the past 10 years, only had it happen twice where the charge port got too wet and had to dry before I could charge it, and neither time was when the battery was low enough for it to matter.
I was already using it for a shower checklist, since I find it pretty hard to function in the shower
Hypersensory Autism, in my case. But both are relatively common, so could be what it is in many peoples cases here. For me a shower is so much sensory input, I am basically forced introspective. Takes alot of willpower to keep awareness and move to the next thing on the checklist.
That must be difficult. Glad you've found a solution to make it work, and I'm sorry things I take for granted are that big of an obstacle for others
What a lovely human conversation this turned out to be. Hope you both have a great day 😁
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Phones are water resistant and that goes down with pressured water.
Also, you take your phone in the shower. Too much for me that.
Unless the water at the bottom of your shower is several feet deep, the water pressure in a shower is gonna be nearly 0. You can leave the phone off most of the time, just have it there to jot something down. Ideally, you want it as unobtrusive as possible anyway since the whole point of thinking well in the shower is not having distractions.
Mine just sits there on the checklist 99% of the time, and I just made the checklist in the same notes app, so I don't even have to leave the app to write stuff down.
I just make a mental note, like a one word trigger that will remind me of the idea later
Lol, look at Mr. Neurotypical here! 😜
I'm not busting your balls, seriously, I'm just jealous of people who have a memory like yours.
My mother is like you - she remembers the entire grocery list, and has never in her life written one, so I grew up not knowing about making lists - and I have zero short-term (working) memory. This means unless I work very hard at moving things to long-term memory they're just lost. I don't even remember the last thing I said in a conversation.
Hey, I'm Mx AuDHD too! I just figured out to remember some stuff in a way that works for me :p
I would try an LCD doodle board, I have one I bought at lidl for 3,50€, I doubt it is waterproof but it would be very easy to waterproof it with a vacuum sealer.
You can get bath crayons for kids that let you write directly on the wall of the shower or w/e. Searching brings up lots of options...
I'd just shout out those random ideas and hopefully my partner is right outside the bathroom to hear them.
"I hope someone has started dating me and moved in since I got in the shower and that you're writing down all of this gold! Anyway, like I was saying..."
Wow, I've never thought it could be interpreted that way!
Nothing special.
I have a decent quality paper notebook and a pencil attached to it sitting on a shelf nearby the shower (using a softer pencil than your usual HB/2B, say a 4B or 6B) and I can easily reach out for them whenever I need to jot something down. Not worrying at all about messing the paper with water as its sole purpose is to hold the notes for as long as it takes me to finish showering: it being decent/good quality paper, Clairefontaine in my case, it won't instantly break apart when faced with water. I simply don't write under the shower.
When I'm in the shower, I write stand up routines I'll never remember or have a reason to use.
Maybe you can voice record yourself showering and then start talking about it out loud
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Haven't investigated it much, but I've been wondering if you could set your phone or something to transcribe audio and just talk out loud.
Get a smart speaker or use your phone to take voice notes
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