Very broadly, one can think of information one encounters on a daily basis to help plan what to do with that information anyway. Usually, this information would be stored in your head for some time. This could be for anything ranging from a few seconds to the rest of your life. But storing a lot of information in a complex manner like this is not something that the brain is designed to do efficiently (adapted from David Allen’s Getting Things Done). So, we need to think of what we do with this information, how we process it into action items or structure and document it for later use if we don’t want to naturally forget about it.
I use a workflow loosely based on the GTD Method discussed in detail on the Hello Internet podcast. I have not read the GTD book by David Allen. I just picked up ideas from this episode and also multiple episodes of the Cortex podcast