LYT + Zettelkasten: How to handle research questions and fleeting thoughts?

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There’s a similar discussion with a couple of solutions in this thread:

Way to quick add notes?

I’m looking for a way to quickly add notes to obsidian when I’m in another application. Say I’m reading a pdf and want to write a note – I don’t want to open up Obsidian as a large window app. I just want a minimal editor window pop up - kind of like TickTick’s quick add bar for tasks. Right now I use a keyboard shortcut to launch terminal and use a custom function to create a new markdown file and add a string of text to it. This works fine enough but I’d rather use a markdown editor. Ideally i…

Yet, it is mainly about the question how to capture quick thoughts while you’re not working in obsidian (but still, some of the proposed solutions might be helpful in your case).

A rather comfortable solution within obsidian would be to use the “daily notes” plugin. Your current daily note can at any time quickly be opened via a simple shortcut. If you have any ideas, just open it, type your thoughts, and at the end of the day (or week or whenever you are free) review your note and develop your thoughts and ToDos.

Or just create a note named “Review”, open it with a simple text editor outside of obsidian and leave it open the whole day. Whenever you want to capture something you don’t want to forget, write it in there.