The family and I got on the road today and headed out of town for the weekend. As I was driving I was a getting a bunch of downloads, ideas, and I had no place to write them so I got my phone and opened the voice memo app and recorded the thought. I verbalized the idea.
Will I ever create the ideas that came to me as I drove today? I don’t know but if I’m ever lacking inspiration… I know I have a voice memo with an idea from today.
When I think of an Idea collection system I think it’s a system made up of several tools. It could be a note-taking tool, a voice-memo tool, video/photography tool. There are many other tools but I hope I get my point across in saying that the goal is to collect the ideas and place them in one of these tools.
By doing this, we can then feed the creativity planner that I covered on a previous post. We can build out ideas just like bodybuilders build out muscles when working out. Our workouts are creative workouts and they are planned on our creativity planner and the ideas are the muscles we are trying to build with the creative exercise we are about to try.
I have tried a few of these different tools and it’s not a use one type of approach we should take but more of a “use the one that is adequate at the time you get the idea”. For me the voice-memo app was my tool as I drove out of town today.