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Grow Ideas in a Project Incubator
Posted by Gina Trapani at 11:00 AM on February 9, 2008
Blogger Glen Stansberry says that ideas need a place and time to grow—like a virtual incubator. Capture your ideas as soon as you have them in a safe, consistent place, and prune and review them over time as you work towards putting them into action. The project incubator concept employs several GTD techniques and I can personally attest to its effectiveness: the seeds of most feature stories that appear here on Lifehacker get planted in our editorial idea incubator (a wiki), which I was just editing before finding this article. Where do you incubate your brilliant ideas? Tell us in the comments.
Tags: creativity | ideas | inspiration | project management
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geoffcbassett
Posted 1:43 PM 9/2/08
is there any free web based wiki applications for creating your own?
geoffcbassett
ThingAmaJigger
Posted 1:43 PM 9/2/08
I find that an audio recording system for idea/note capture works wonders on GTD. I can replay them on the go and save to computer to backup. The audio is automatically transcribed and added to a database. I categorize and view the projects in an HTML page where I can organize and expand on them. I am looking for a program to transcribe better. Im currently using the built-in Microsoft window text to speech.
ThingAmaJigger
MrsMicah
Posted 3:42 PM 9/2/08
I've also used tadalist. It helps me sort out my ideas for doing something and check them off. Plus it can just store a list of ideas if that's all I need for now.
The private wordpress blog sounds good too.
MrsMicah
avlor
Posted 3:42 PM 9/2/08
@GEOFFCBASSETT
What about a private word press blog? (You can set one up and make the privacy setting "I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose" and just don't put anyone in the list.) I just started one like this for my ideas.
avlor
cavalierex
Posted 3:42 PM 9/2/08
I use OneNote to collect ideas.
cavalierex
mparas
Posted 1:42 AM 11/2/08
in the Someday/Maybe context in Omnifocus.
mparas
Lazarus
Posted 1:42 AM 11/2/08
We use Google Docs to share documents (spreadsheets, documents, presentations, calendar) that we can all edit together (even at the same time) Plus, Google Docs can be accessed via web capable mobile phones. We also use a simple Wiki (WikiTikiTavi)for general outlining, brainstorming, and just getting ideas together in one place we can see at once.
I personally installed a voice recorder program on my mobile phone, since I never know when inspiration will hit, and then play it back and update everyone on the idea.
Lazarus
Gina Trapani
Posted 1:42 AM 11/2/08
@geoffcbassett: We use an installation of MediaWiki (here's how to install it on your own computer/server), but for a hosted solution, I like PBWiki.
Gina Trapani
jdoree
Posted 1:42 AM 11/2/08
I just email my ideas to my Gmail account with a certain word in the subject that then causes the email to be filtered into an 'Ideas' folder. I can easily add to the ideas by replying to the email. Gmails great search allows extremely easy retrieval at a later date or I can simply review all items with this label.
jdoree