Anything that comes to you goes here first: a phrase, an image, a question, a half-idea. Click New, write it down and keep going. Sort it later.
Ideas
Every idea gets a row, from a spark you caught on the bus to something ready to make. Keep the seed as it arrived, and move the idea along the stages as it firms up. Most ideas rest for a long time, and the archive keeps them while they do.
Notes
What feeds the ideas: quotes, references, observations, images, research and fragments. Give every note a source specific enough to find again, and link it to any idea it feeds. A note that feeds nothing yet is still worth keeping.
Connections
Your ideas grouped by theme, the ideas you have linked to each other and the log of pairings you have tried. Read down a theme to see what your work keeps circling.
Develop
Two tools for an idea you want to work on. The Idea card takes one idea further. Pairing prompts put two ideas side by side to see what happens between them.
Ready
Ideas you can describe in three answers: what it will be, roughly how big and what the first session of work would be. Write the answers under Became. When the work is done, move the idea to Made and say what it became. Made ideas sit below.
When you start making one, take it to wherever you plan your projects, such as Saint Violet's Project Organizer.
Desk
The two things you sort: new items in the inbox, and notes that do not feed an idea yet. Move items to Ideas or Notes with ••• > Move to.
Notes not yet linked to an idea, newest first.
Resources
A short essay on why the archive works the way it does, the terms it uses in a line each and a fifteen-minute review to run once a month.
Each column shows how many ideas it holds.
Ideas in Incubating or Developing, the longest untouched first. Add a line, move it or shelve it.
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