Do You Want to Keep Your Ideas Organized?

Sieving through the potential thoughts to reality

I got 200 Medium Drafts. And far too many ideas have been listed on devices or on my handwritten notes. This led me to believe only when I slow down and organize the backlog. To throw the bad out. The best concepts will not get lost in the mix. Therefore, I could really traverse effectively and visualize simply.

The decluttering to organize is not a mere habit; it is a habit’s corollary. The stronger and deeper our habit is, the greater our freedom. The aim behind the arrangement of thoughts is to help make consistent progress at a pace that feels good.

Techniques

Can you think the thoughts of another person helping us without them putting it out? Firstly, how to generate countless ideas. Ideas can strike at any time. Always have easy access to save your ideas somewhere. Because remembering it in your mind takes up space in the time and energy of the mind. Entering it visibly can ensure you will revisit it one day. The brainstorming process doesn’t judge or seek validation for ideas.

• Have a notebook or record on the phone. While watching a film or when traveling, an idea may pop up. Just hold it and save it into any medium before it disappears.
• Allow doing various activities for the stimulation of thought.
• Record your thoughts in a voice recorder when you are a passenger while traveling. And of course, you know not to disturb the other passengers and driver. Since most enjoy quite travel. If not in a circumstance where you can voice loudly. Jot down on the phone or paper.
• Have an idea buddy to discuss and record the conversation on a topic you need to dig deeper. Make sure the person knows it is being recorded.
• Use your past experiences to create more ideas.

Do a brain dump. Jotting with hand will bring in more feasible ideas. Then navigate through it to categorize and analyze. Decide what to work on and which to discard.

Organize only after you jot down. Revisiting them inspires more ideas. And will give a truer sense now with incubation than when the idea was ignited. Just mere observation without judgment is enough to bring in new ideas. Stick to quantity over quality.

How to decide whether it is worth pursuing?

To judge and weigh whether its a worthy idea, now shift to quality over quantity. The best idea is the one which answers the question you are in search of. If it can bring about a solution, pick that out and analyze it for action. Also, see how much passion people have on the topic you will work on.

Organize with tools

Categorize into groups and branches of subgroups. Use mindmaps to simplify everything to bring a connection to the main topic and its subtopics. Use the help of apps.

Evernote — The best place to store ideas. I love the screenshot feature of it to use on webpages while on desktop.

XMind — Mind mapping software. You can try any other mindmap options which are suitable for you in terms of cost and features.

Trello — is a collaboration tool to organize and to manage workflows.

Validation

Get rid of your emotions and ask people who are viable to be of less ego of being right and have a good sense of judgment. To analyze ur best ideas. And have the top ideas alone to cook later.

Every time you write a list make sure you write the outcomes with it. All the bad ideas, just click delete. The emptied spaces create valuable flow in your mind. You can further focus on making them a reality once you’ve trimmed your ideas to the very best.

Creativity

To try fun tasks you can have different jars of ideas and put folded notes in it. Pick one in an adventurous or dilemma moment. If it doesn’t suit you just stick to the idea catalog that you previously filtered.

Be enthused in all the steps of the process. Be focused to be a positive beginner and a gritty finisher.

Conclusion

Check off completed tasks. To the incomplete tasks where you need more time than you had planned. Analyze a percentage of how much you have worked on to ease the tensed buildup. Reward yourself for every accomplished milestone.

Ideas will create more ideas. And encourage more imagination which will lead to more helpful hunches. An organized system of ideas can make you sense it all to lead what sparks in your mind to reality.

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