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Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

travesti — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:59:43 -0000

Fine information, many thanks to the author, thanks for write

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Dragan Isakovic — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:13:08 -0000

Useful and interesting article.

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Our company use this SaaS for managing innovations in our IT services and development.
Ideation module has duplicate prevention which helps us collect good ideas and stop duplicates from submission. We can prioritize ideas easy, and track the best people contributing.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

sogoya — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:03:32 -0000

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Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Business Door Hangers — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:19:02 -0000

Great post the worst thing in the world is thinking of a great idea then forgetting it. I try and keep notepads and pens everywhere especially in areas where i think of my best ideas.

Sometimes i think of a lot of good stuff when i lay down to sleep since my mind is more clear, but its a little annoying having to turn on the lights and find a pen and paper to writ it down so i can go back to bed!

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

thomas78745 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:33:33 -0000

Thanks for this post, some of these I have never heard of. Maybe you would do a post on developing complex ideas once they are saved? I use Inspiration on a Mac. I would love to hear what other people are using.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

DrKaren — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:36:03 -0000

My absolute favorite is the Personal Brain. http://www.thebrain.com/

It acts as both my idea collector and manager when I want to organize my thoughts. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux and has some great features so things don't get lost. I can dump a thought in anywhere (meaning it's bottom-up rather than top-down organizing) and it can travel on a flash drive. It connects to virtually any software doc you want and has drop-in email linking.

I use a notebook when I'm absolutely unplugged, but then I move things to my Brain to collect them in one place. I love it --

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

HIB — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:50:21 -0000

I've used some of these idea capture tools, but I've found that the best way is to keep a notebook in my car. I then transfer that to an IDEA document in google documents.

A lot of these programs are great, but if it's not an application that I don't interface with often, I'll forget about it and won't use it which is why Google Documents works for me.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

cburnham — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:53:06 -0000

http://iwantsandy.com is a great to do list, calendar, appointment, contacts web app that works very well with Jott. It also will email you an .ics file you can save to your outlook

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

pete — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:34:49 -0000

What about Microsoft OneNote? I use it on my laptop and my mobile phone, and it automatically synchronizes between the 2. Invaluable...

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Jay — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:49:47 -0000

I am using Moleskine when on the road and http://www.taskwriter.com when online.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Sarah11918 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:21:34 -0000

Was just this morning turned on to SketchBox billed as a "multifunctional yet uncluttered – Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop." I've downloaded, but haven't tried it yet, but given that my desktop is smothered whenever I open Stickies, it might be helpful!

http://www.omz-software.de/...

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Corey — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:58:18 -0000

How about more ideas for obscure locations. In the car, on a jog, in the shower, waking up in the middle of the night, in the bathroom, etc.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Chuck Frey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:37:55 -0000

I like GyroQ, an add-in for MindManager which sits in your Windows system tray until invoked with a Ctrl-Q command. It provides a single line for idea input, and stores ideas within the app until you send them to your default mind map for further processing. Then GyroQ retreats out of view, enabling you to quickly get back to what you were doing. I also recently purchased a pocket-sized Sony digital recorder, which I'm going to try out for capturing ideas, then transfer them to Dragon NaturallySpeaking for conversion to text. We'll soon see how that works (fingers crossed).

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Tabs — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:48:56 -0000

I get my best ideas in the shower, I get in and the ideas pour out and by the time I am done I will be lucky if I remember one of them. I may have to check out the "Rite as Rain" thing, thanks I may yet be able to get my best ideas to the world.

Thanks for the list,

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

DanGTD — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:42:10 -0000

Google Notebook is also good, and much lighter than Docs.
It has even a browser extension that you can use to save snippets quickly while browsing.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

tru — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:17:23 -0000

Just one thing on the Moleskine - its binding is not leather.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

wickedblog — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:19:19 -0000

Nice comprehensive list, thank you. I was just looking for some cross platform options and a review on those available for the new-to-me mac OS.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Michael@Awareness * Connection — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:44:07 -0000

Wow this is thorough. You hit on a LOT of them. The spy watch is less expensive than lots of similar looking regular quartz watches. Funny. I'll stick with my standard olympus voice recorder and with my iphone apps—still deciding which I like for voice.

I also like Levenger pocket briefcases. Weird name for them, but they are very nice leather writing pads. I use one that is for 3 x 5 cards and that has 3 pockets. The more expensive one that I have has a pen along with it.

Did I miss the Fisher Space pen in the list?

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Fred Schechter — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:58:13 -0000

Hilarious! You use my favorite capture mechanism and yet don't mention it at all. Delicious! (no, Delicious the site).

I use Evernote, Jott, delicious, Palm Centro, and moleskine to mild effect.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Robb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:44:43 -0000

Apologies for the comment spam/dup (Ack! I'm doing it again!). I had javascript off and it didn't look like the comment was going to post. Great post. I look forward to exploring some of these options. I picked up some moleskines at a going out of biz sale last year for $1 a piece (!) - love em for journaling/note taking.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Robb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:41:57 -0000

Anyone have any experience with http://chandlerproject.org/ ? I was turned on to it just today, but haven't tried it out yet.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Robb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:41:40 -0000

Anyone have any experience with http://chandlerproject.org/ ? I was turned on to it just today, but haven't tried it out yet.

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Lindsay — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:33:14 -0000

Great list. Note2Self sounds like it would be great for me, as I usually have my brilliant (and idiotic) ideas while I'm out walking the dog or on the road listening to podcasts and audiobooks. I usually have my iPhone with me and use the notes feature which is kind of slow (and a bit awkward when you're holding a dog leash too!). :)

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Bill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:40:10 -0000

I've used almost all of these apps in various degrees, each with their own quirks. Where I'm stuck is defining an actual system between them. Do I use JOTT to just send notes to my RTM account? Or do I use JOTT to handle the list itself. Do I sync it with 43Actionss? What about Evernote, do I keep to-do's in there? Do I snap photos with my iPhone of my notes in my moleskine? And when I do, do I send them to Evernote or Jott? Hopefully you see my problem here.

I'm just wondering how my fellow readers are USING these in conjunction with each other. Or is one tool doing it all for you guys?

Bill [Proud user of an iPhone, RTM, Evernote, 43Actions, JOTT, Moleskine, GMail, Gcal, toodledo, etc, etc]

Re: No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere

Art Gonzalez — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:48:09 -0000

Moleskine notebook is my trusted tool. Is very handy and stylish.

Thanks for the info on the rest of the tools.

Art Gonzalez
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