Beats that give you bright ideas

Have you ever wondered why your best ideas come to you at the most inappropriate times? I have,, it almost always happens while I'm on the subway or stuck in a meeting and have no real way of recording the idea. Sure we tell ourselves "I'll remember, it can't be that hard to recall such a brilliant idea. No more than a hour later you have no idea what it was.

It happens to all of us, much like trying to remember that dream you had last night just can't recall it exactly .I remember the emotions tied to the dream but the images are blurry .
I started writing things down that I thought might be important, now I have small pieces of paper every where with hieroglyphics and scribble on them that don't make any sense to me when I read them.
The ideas flow like a faucet, I just need a better way to organize them..