Imagine getting an idea in the middle of a night. What do you use to capture it so you can come back to it? Is it a diary? Or a piece of napkin? Or an app?<p>I have been working on an app that basically captures your ideas. Not only that, it also aims to capture the circumstances that inspired the idea. e.g. time of the day, day of the week, your current location. It displays stats based on these variables and simply tells you in what circumstances you are coming up with ideas. What do you guys think about something like this?<p>If there is interest, I can post a link and show you guys what I have so far.
I just started using Sticky.io to jot down all my thoughts. I also used evernote in the past but I did not like the search functionality and or the app. If I was on the go and had an idea I would have to open the app, open the folder "Ideas" and then write down my thoughts there.<p>With Sticky it is 100x easier/faster, you can send in notes via SMS, gchat, or web browser. I personally like the sms feature, it makes taking notes on the go so easy. Also it allows you to organize notes on the fly. For example you can write this note:<p>@ideas create the next facebook. #todo<p>Now I have a new note in my ideas folder and it is tagged with "todo". I have only been using it for a few weeks but I love it so far. Hope this helps!
Since there is some interest, here is what I have so far: <a href="http://ideatagr.com" rel="nofollow">http://ideatagr.com</a><p>Please remember that it is still in very early stages. I am at a point where I am getting people to test the concept and the practicality of this app.<p>There is a system in app to report bugs and gather feedback. Since I created this from scratch and am the only one working on it, it takes me a bit to implement bug fixes but I do get to them eventually.<p>Feel free to sign up and give me your feedback. Thank you!
I usually write down on whatever is handy, be it a scrap of paper, a text editor on my desktop machine, or the Notes app on my iPad.<p>The result of this is that all of my notes are on different machines, in different folders or formats.<p>Now that you mention it, it might be nice to have an app in the cloud that would be just for this purpose and would sync data across all of my devices.
I usually just open a text editor and dump my thoughts into it.<p>If you can integrate, maybe, a canvas image editor and a text editor then you'd have something at least a bit more useful than Notepad++ for me in that regard. Being able to easily export and import will be nice too.
i use evernote. i have a notebook called "ideas" and basically i use the evernote email address plus "@-tag" to make it work. example:<p>Subject: Solution to perpetual motion problem = cats + bacon @Ideas<p>Subject: Write the classic boy-meets-fish bromance movie @Ideas<p>Subject: Create a social networking site dedicated to the best herpderp photos @Ideas<p>etc.