“Notes on paper, or on a computer screen […] do not make contemporary physics or other kinds of intellectual endeavour easier, they make it possible.” — Neil Levy in Handbook of Neuroethics (2011) quoted in Mental Nodes: Complex thinking is impossible without external scaffolding
Every idea worth pursuing will reach a complexity that necessitates writing to be able to develop and explore it further.
In almost all cases, this should happen in (some kind of) public, even smaller communities.
Just copying stuff down is not thinking. Taking raw notes is useless.
Thinking this way is about setting up a loop between head and eye and hand and materials. Endless frustration for artists of all ages comes from thinking drawing is just about getting down what you see with your eye or in your mind’s eye. The drawing emerges from the friction between what’s in the mind’s eye and the materials — you can struggle with it or you can dance.