Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by kepzorz » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 4:48 AM UTC

I think a Trello board works perfectly for this.

Whenever my business partner or I have one of those "WE SHOULD MAKE A GITHUB FOR BIOLOGY!" moments, we put it on a Trello card in the "Someday" pile, tag it with the appropriate categories, and write all our thoughts on the card. We've also got "soon," "doing," and "done" categories, but we mostly use the board as an idea bank for those "Somedays."

We call it the "Vox Industries Ingenuity Bin."

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 4:54 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by bobo23 » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 4:59 AM UTC

I use Dokuwiki https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki and keep them in a GTD style someday/maybe list.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by DaNmarner » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 4:59 AM UTC

A folder in Dropbox, containing each idea as either a text file or a folder of its own.

Sometimes the whole idea is one line as the file name. The content of the text file is the details of the idea. If I wrote some script or collected some information for this idea, it'll be in its folder.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by kkowalczyk » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 5:02 AM UTC

Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/), which is a web-based outliner. Good because it's fast.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by saulrh » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 5:02 AM UTC

Emacs, org-mode, org-capture, and a global keyboard shortcut that pops up an org-capture buffer when I have an idea. I just type it in, hit a few keys, and it goes into a nicely-formatted file with all my other ideas. Hitting slightly different keys will capture appointments, todos, read-this-later links, book recommendations, and the like.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by unimpressive » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 5:10 AM UTC

Old notebooks from school or my head.

I figure if I forget it probably wasn't that important in the first place.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by rooshdi » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 5:14 AM UTC

If good enough, with other people.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by praveenaj » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 5:17 AM UTC

I'm a huge fan of Evernote! I use it almost everyday whenever a new idea pops into my head. I have installed it on my laptop and my mobile. Highly recommended.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by brianjolney » Sun, Oct 28, 2012, 5:18 AM UTC

I keep an evernote notebook for ideas, and drop photos and various ideas into it over time. I revisit every few days to organize and cull the really bad ideas. The ones I keep returning to seem to bubble up to the top.