Life imitating thought

I’ve been chatting to my friends about a theory of ideas. The essence is that ideas shouldn’t be horded, but rather they should be set free so that more (and better) ideas fill the gaps that the others were taking up. For the last year or two I’ve been noting the ideas for projects/designs/other random thoughts in my iPod Touch, in the always handy Notes app. Handy until yesterday it crapped itself and deleted everything. So there we go, 50+ ideas that were waiting to be realised (on that infamous rainy day) vanished in a flash. I am pretty disappointed in myself for not acting sooner to
(a) back them up
(b) complete them
but excited to see if my idea is actually true and the ideas waiting in the wings come into fruition in the new year.