You might want to consider starting a commonplace book . They ' ve been around for centuries and are intended for just the purpose you describe . Milton , Locke , Franklin , and Jefferson all used them , and any number of more recent authors and thinkers . These days , there are various ways of doing it electronically , either with a good notetaker like Evernote , or with a dedicated systemtokeepacommonplace . <| sep |> Tried it on my phone , just restarts the battle entirely . Not a bad thing , per se . <| sep |> This is insightful stufff if you want to understand how the other side thinks . It ' s like conventional war vs guerilla war . Read it . Get inside their heads to fight back in ways they won ' t expect . <| sep |> On the subject of elemental themes , I remember a fic pointing out that the first task was fireandair themed , the second was water themed , and the third earth or , you know , wood themed it used this as justification for why Fluer did poorly in the second task , firechucking Veela don ' t work well in water elemental conditions . I wonder , why have just 3 tasks ? I know there ' s 3 competitors usually , so it ' s a tritri . But why not make it 9 tasks in groups of three a triple triad , counting the competitors , or maybe evoke the 12 labors of Heracles ? . Perhaps not that last one . Those labors can be summed up as killtheunkillable , catchtheuncatchable , row row fight the power and in the last few a fair bit of divine sabotage .