I use Apple Reminders for an ideas list. The cool thing about it is that you can set a reminder for when you are in a particular place. That way, whenever I get to my local cafe I get a little popup that reminds me to take a quick look at my list.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
#282I email myself with the idea.
My compulsion to keep inbox zero then forces me regularly notice it after some time. After a while, if I'ms till excited about it or it makes sense I tackle it, otherwise delete.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
#283GTD
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
#284I generally write stuff in a book, especially when I am not on the computer. When I am on the computer I will often use computer files (I don't use any particular software other than a text editor), sometimes in addition to books. Sometimes even IRC in order that I can get comments.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
#285I (and am sure many here) have been in the same situation. I have tried physical books (which I'm still biased towards), OneNote (my next favourite, especially on tablets with stylus), txt files, wiki etc. Ultimately what I realised is that it is all useless if I don't have a periodic review session for these ideas. So, what I am doing these days (not with much success due to lack of discipline) is to have 2 or 3 dif…
OneNote is by far the best electronic note-taking and organizing tool out there, in spite of many glaring shortcomings. (e.g.: It really needs a way to tag things, as the full text search quickly becomes less useful as you pour more of your life in it, especially web clips; also need real tree-structure organizing that lets you go deeper than just Notebook/Section/Page; UI is a disaster for pen/touch use since removi…
Hey dublin, I'm on the OneNote team. Thank you for the feedback. I had a few follow-up questions for you:
- OneNote lets you nest multiple levels of sections and pages. Is this the tree-structure you're looking for?
- You can add tags and search for tags now in both OneNote for Win10 and Mac. Once you've given it a try, can you tell me if that's the tagging support you're looking for?
- Besides the lack of the radial menus, what else about pen/touch use is painful for you? Is this in OneNote for Win10 or OneNote 2016?
Thanks!