A good solution is a secretary taking notes for you but as small business owners who can actually afford that? Next best thing a tape recorder. They come in all shapes and sizes and can record everything from a reminder to do something like an entry in your bookkeeping to the latest brilliant idea you want to try for your business to thoughts for where to take your business and how to expand it. Iit can also capture a group brainstorming session where you get to the point of bouncing ideas so fast you know you can't write them down fast enough!
Other ideas for it can include talking to it while you develop a new product. How you do something if you have to write instructions or think you'll forget in 6 months how you did something and need to repeat it.
Another idea is while working on your website, have someone go through page by page and comment on the page with their ideas along with while coming up with ideas for new pages you can create lists for keywords, page title possibilities and other behind the scenes type info you'll need when you actually start the page.
Once you're done with a brainstorming session you can then rewind and play the tape and either write or type up your idea lists in some semblance of order and get all the little things you might otherwise have forgotten. I tend to organize things in Power Point with one main idea per page and details listed below for each subject.
Hope this inspires and helps someone!
