A-TIER technique
Waterproof shower notes — capturing ideas that actually become projects
100k ft — What is this?
Waterproof shower notes — capturing ideas that actually become projects
50k ft — Why care?
A maker shows a shower wall covered in waterproof Post-it sketches and argues shower-captured ideas convert to real projects more often than notebook ideas — including procedurally generated brackets and a glueless snap-tab 3D-printed connector for recycled cardboard. Messy, but a real creative-capture habit with receipts.
10k ft — Key takeaways
• Flexing snap tabs into holes can join plastic to cardboard without glue
• Put a capture surface where ideas show up (the shower), not where you think they should
• Review old raw sketches — early versions often already contain the final solution
5k ft — Tools & techniques
waterproof sticky notes
idea capture, snap-fit tabs
1k ft — Deep-dive / try it
I’ve talked a little bit about this creative hack before but thought it was about time to give the full tour of the nitty and also gritty in the life of a shower notes taker. It’s not …. Glamorous. It’s not aesthetic. But it works.
Also to all those people who think i don't shower.... receipts. Eat that.
Transcript excerpt
Gosh, it looks so insane, but this is my shower, and you know those ideas that you get in the shower? Well, I have waterproof post-it notes, and I actually, you know, write them down on the walls. Looks insane. But honestly, I highly recommend you also do this. It's such a life hack. For anybody that has a lot of ideas, and also does not live with people that would institutionalize them for going full Pepe Silva. Because if you make stuff, you know, only like one out of every 1,000 ideas ever becomes anything. Getting stuff from that massive ideas pile over to the realized product pile? Uphill battle, man. It's impossible. And I'm amazed we ever actually do it, and so proud of us. But in that battle, this right here, I've started to see it as being like the golden gun in a slapper's only deathmatch. And if you're Gen Z and you don't understand that reference, go ask your grandparents. But what I mean by that is an alarming number of the ideas that I capture here. Not on my sketchbook, not on my notes, half of my phone, or the piles index cars on my desk, but here consistently seem to become real things more than usual. Like this one right here, earliest seeds of this project right here. I've procedurally generated brackets. And now I'm looking at this like four-year-old messy sketch and being like, actually, that's that, that's how I did it. Yeah, and in a blink you'll miss it moment. Up there, that project, that project, that project. I recognize those. So three of my…