What if inspiration hits you?

Hands up who never had an inspiration “attack” while driving or at the shopping center or during class at school/uni.
How many times that happened to you and how many good ideas did you lose because you couldn’t remember em by the time you got back home? Sometimes even if you are home by the time your DAW is ready the idea is already gone.
So in this post I’m going to tell you what you can do in order to save your ideas.
Now first thing is, the idea I’m talking about isn’t necessary a melody, it can be a pattern/sequence where you can then shape your melody on, it can be an actual melody, but it can also simply be a bassline key chance or some nice rhythm you can add to your groove, in my opinion everything cool that comes to mind it’s worth keeping.
So most important thing of all (to me but should be the same to you as well) is to buy a cell phone that supports audio recording,they are small, and most important they are almost always in our pockets(unless we are swimming or doing naked activities, but in that case it would be on the night table) who cares if it’s the worse mic ever with the worse conversion etc, we don’t need it to record the purest sound, we need to record whenever inspiration hit us, we need to store our idea who cares if it sound good or not, we ll just write them down on our DAW once we are back home and after that we can even damp the recording (I keep them cause I’m a romantic guy…).
Pretty much every phone comes with a recording function nowadays if for some reason your phone doesn’t, make sure you have something portable that will allow you to do that, mp3 players, portable recording devices(but they are more expensive as they have a better quality audio), ANYTHING that fits in your pocket and that allows you to record will do just fine.
Other very important point is to know your device! I know people who can’t even change their ringtone, as if they could record audio, so if you want to record your ideas but you are a noob with electronic devices, make sure you learn how to do that.
Make it fast and easy, if you are driving and you have an idea (happens to me all the time) set some shortcuts on your device in order to get to the recording tool as fast as you can(samsung cell phones have this function, same for many others), if you have an iPhone make sure you have a recording app on the dock or the 1st page the way that you don’t have to flick between a thousand pages, loosing time and getting distracted (remember you are driving).
The actual recording moment might be awkward sometimes, maybe you are in a busy place and someone may think you are an idiot cause you r singing at your phone, well screw them or otherwise head to a less busy area or the closest toilet (I record at any cost) also, learning how to sing with lips closed comes handy, and if you do so, remember to put the mic close to your nose, why? Try singing at lips closed for a few second then close your nose while you are still singing and see what happens.
In the studio, while playing with your keyboard don’t be afraid to push the record button, if you are recording midi notes you could play for 10 hours and ending up having a file which is not even 10mb (midi not audio), sometime is enough just hitting 3 notes in the right sequence and tempo and the melody comes to life by itself in your head, and it’s a shame if you lose it just because you missed to hit a button.