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Indeed. It may or may not be related to the fact that listening to music helps memory and cognition slightly -- as long as you're not concentrating on an auditory task.

For whatever reason, occupying systems of your body that aren't required for a given type of thinking (gum for non-tactile tasks, music for non-auditory tasks) seems to help that thinking task.

Odd.

I write my To Do's on a blank piece of paper, but in half an hour they are magically hidden between a bunch of numbers, silly equations, arrows and squares. I do not enjoy doing it (afterwards, heh).

Can you elaborate on the last line you wrote?

That was probably a reference to this link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058626

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of.