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I track all my ideas using FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ http://freemind.sourceforge.net/), and generally recommend it. It's not really being acti
by Alex3917 6y ago
I track all my ideas using FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ http://freemind.sourceforge.net/), and generally recommend it.
It's not really being actively maintained, but since it's in an open data format if it ever stops working you can just export your data into whatever format org-mode uses.
Usually I don't get around to doing projects until at least 5 years after having the idea, so my ideas tend to develop little by little over the years until the time is right to finally pursue them. So this format lets me keep track of the various ideas as I slowly do more research and put more thought into them.
- cl42 6y agoI noticed you also have a blog. Did you find that helps? I have a daily journal where I log ideas/observations but it's organized by date on GitHub (and I get paranoid about having it in the cloud, TBH). The idea of organizing around ideas or topic trees makes more sense, though.
- Alex3917 6y agoI try to teach myself one big thing per year, and then eventually do a writeup to explain how I taught myself that thing. And yeah, FreeMind definitely helps for that also. Right now I'm a few years behind just due to building my startup, although I have a 20K+ word post that just needs one last round of minor edits heh. In terms of topic trees, yeah the main benefit is that forcing yourself to organize your ideas this way helps you to have new ideas, just based on being able to see the relationships between things that you wouldn't have otherwise been able to see. This is my blog post that goes more in-depth on the benefits: https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2012/09/program-above-and-beyond-your-actual-ability-by-using-freemind.html https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2012/09/program-ab...