Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by bradleyland » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 12:39 AM UTC

I would suggest that if your ideas are so numerous that you need anything more than a simple notebook to track them, you're probably working on the wrong problem.

Ideas die in a vacuum. Don't be the guy that retires with a notebook full of ideas that no one ever tried. Talk to people and develop your ideas. If it doesn't work, toss it and move on.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by sairam313 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 1:50 AM UTC

I have been trying to find an optimal solution myself for a while. I used to have a google spreadsheet before. I like evernote/springpad. But all 3 are blocked at my work location and that's where I get most ideas that I want to record. IPhone form factor/keyboard doesn't allow for a quick note typing. For now, I am using a plain Google tasks list to record all ideas. I can access it from gmail or calendar and the google calendar is not blocked at my workplace. I would love to use evernote extensively, but till I get access to it at work, Google tasks does it for now.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by doubaokun » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 5:12 AM UTC

I will suggest http://notemoz.com

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by M83 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:12 AM UTC

bobsoap wrote: post #29

fabiandesimone wrote: post #12

Have you tried Evernote? Is fantastic. I can't imagine not using it.

No concerns regarding privacy and trusting a 3rd party with your ideas?

http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by M83 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:14 AM UTC

ryanstout wrote: post #7

I like workflowy.com, the outline format is nice to keep things in groups.

thanks for this, hadn't seen it before

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by M83 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:19 AM UTC

I use http://www.google.com/notebook, however it is closed to new signups and has no new development being done.

I'll probably move to Evernote or checkout some suggestions in this thread.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by mrzerga » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:36 PM UTC

the same thing that im using for planning and keeping my notes - ToDoList, similar to evernote, but much more customizable. freeware obviously.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Post by theitgirl » Fri, Nov 04, 2011, 1:48 PM UTC

rorrr wrote: post #8

Email to myself, tag with "idea".

I do the same. If I want to keep track of additional notes or resources, I reply to the thread.