The words the Idea Archive uses, one line each. Rename anything in your own copy.

Stages

Stage What it means here
Spark Just captured: a line or two, not yet thought about.
Incubating Worth keeping, and resting. You come back to it now and then.
Developing You are working on it: the Idea card, notes, pairings.
Ready You can say what it will be, roughly how big and what the first session of work would be.
Made It became something. Became says what.
Shelved A decision to stop for now. A shelved idea keeps everything you knew about it.

Ideas

Term What it means here
Seed The idea as it first arrived, kept unchanged so you can see how far it has moved.
Could become The forms an idea might take. Pick several while it is young.
Themes Your own recurring subjects, shared between Ideas and Notes.
Connects to, Connected from Links between ideas. Link one idea to another under Connects to, and the other shows the link under Connected from.
Next step One small step that would teach you more about the idea.
Became What the idea turned into, or is planned as once it is Ready.
Last touched The last time the idea was edited. The archive uses it to show the ideas that have waited longest.
Waiting longest Ideas in Incubating or Developing, the longest untouched first. It sits at the foot of the home page.
Idea card A set of prompts under Develop for taking one idea further, from its seed to its next step.

Notes and pairings

Term What it means here
Note Anything that feeds an idea: a quote, a reference, an observation, an image, a research finding, a fragment.
Source Where a note came from, specific enough to find again: a book and page, a person, a place, a date.
Not yet linked Notes that feed no idea yet. Some will find one; some are simply worth keeping.
Pairing Two ideas put side by side with a prompt, for about ten minutes, to see what happens between them.
Type What kind of note it is: quote, reference, observation, image, research or fragment.
Became an idea Ticked on a pairing that turned into a new row in Ideas.
Inbox Everything starts here. Move an item to Ideas or Notes once it has a home.
Goes to On an inbox item, where you think it belongs: Idea, Note or Not sure yet. You can leave it blank.