I agree with Russell Davies that all planners (and probably everybody else) should keep scrapbooks. But in insisting on the physicality of the process, I think Russell is seeing scrapbooks with blinkers on.
As some of Russell's readers have already pointed out, blogs are scrapbooks 2.0 - where you can not just stick up words and pictures but also videos and other 'alive' data.
But that's not all. What else is the mind but a giant wondrous scrapbook that has experiences, pictures, sounds, words, smells and every possible kind of stimuli 'pasted' on to it?
In fact, I'd like to argue that by physically pasting stuff and storing it, we are actually stifling the natural act of experiencing it and transferring it to the bio-scrapbook that we carry around with us. Instead we choose to store endless bits and pieces of stuff in a perpetual in-queue as scrapbooks.
As for the unexpected and random connections which inspire ideas, I think the subconscious does a better job of it than we give it credit - or leeway - for.
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