And if you do, do you post them publically?<p>I just want to see if people actually follow the "ideas are useless, execution is everything" and "share your ideas ASAP" memes :)<p>Here's my stash: http://firespotting.com/submitted?id=shadowcats
I used to keep mine in random scribbles but then started adding them to a text file.<p>Half-Bakery [1] was a great site full of random and crazy (and not so crazy) ideas. I'm pretty sure some of the stranger ones may even have come to pass. fwiw, I prefer that type of UI for collating ideas rather than the HN style.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.halfbakery.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.halfbakery.com</a>
No. Ideas are really useless.<p>If they are unimportant I will forget them after a while and that is OK. If I forget them they are unimportant by definition. Keeping track of such things is a waste of time.<p>If I get really bothered by some temporary idée fixe I will work on it: search for more information, check my assumptions, analyze my options, maybe write some code to implement a proof of concept. This way at least I gain some knowledge for the wasted time and attention.<p>Sharing ideas of the first kind is just noise. I doubt anything can come out of it.<p>As for the second kind there are blogs, github, kickstarter, etc. They all put you into some process or format. Which is good if you want to make at least something useful from your idea.
I stash many ideas to stop thinking about them, otherwise they distract me from what I'm currently building. Once I've written them down, it's easier to go back to the current one.<p>I usually don't share them because it would take too much time and would defeat my main purpose. But sometimes I just can't help myself and do that anyway :)
I do, but I keep them to myself until they end up being a thing. (Also posted yesterday about my process: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5810585" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5810585</a> )
I've started taking a notebook with me everywhere and writing down whatever comes into my head. This includes ideas for projects, articles I'd like to write about, things I'd like to research later etc. Then when I have some free time I have a long list of interesting topics / bits of inspiration to create something with. I can't imagine making it public - I think the desire to self-censor would reduce the value of it. A lot of the ideas are rubbish and most of the stuff in there is only interesting to me but it's still valuable to have a record of those things.
I carry a notebook everywhere with me and write down every idea I have during my "creativity hour". I have a nice large stash of ideas in it now. No I don't share my ideas, not because I'm selfish, or I think they're worth money (every personal project goes up on GitHub), but because they're personal projects with no real worth to anybody else (at least at the conception phase). When I think of an idea that will change the world, or if any of the ideas turn out to be any use to anybody other than me I'll be sure to share it.
I open-source them: <a href="http://willgrant.org/category/idea-dump/" rel="nofollow">http://willgrant.org/category/idea-dump/</a><p>Need to do some more soon...
I use a simple text document in my Google Drive, it is pretty plain - when I have a new idea I write it into the doc and at the same time I go through all of the others and see If I have more exact ideas related to them. Also I check back occasionally to see if I am still interested in all of them (let's call it refactoring,heh).<p>There are some which I share, some that I do not. :-)
I used to use Evernote to keep track of my ever growing ideas but ultimately found keep a moleskine fits me very well...the feeling of writing it down by myself, a chance to scribble, a chance to sketch etc. made it a better fit for me and I'l sticking to that. I greatly miss the fantastic Evernote search though ;-)
For passing ideas, I just stick them into an email and send them to myself. For other stuff, I keep a private github repo called 'braindump' with each idea in a separate project directory.<p>Whenever a project gets legs and I want to share it, it's pretty easy to then move it into a separate repo and grant access to specific people.
<a href="https://github.com/pmarreck/ruby-snippets" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pmarreck/ruby-snippets</a><p>One day (...maybe today), I'll turn some of these into Ruby gems. I have some kind of weird open-source stage fright, even after multiple coworkers have told me some of these deserve to be gemmed out...
I do keep a stash of ideas. Mainly things that I've noticed about how things could be improved.<p>Currently in there are things concerning drones, forums, social noise, voice recognition, encryption, new ways of programming, and data synchronisation.<p>I rarely share my ideas and rarely do anything with them.
Yes, and no.<p>I keep them in Things (a GTD-style app for iOS and OS X) in the category 'Someday'. This way I can jot them down even if I get an idea while riding the subway.<p>I should share them since I seldom 'Get Things Done' anyway (at least, the things categorized as 'Someday')...
I did not expect to see so many ideas. We actually have quite a few ideas in common, which suprised me. I'm going to browse through all of them, and comment as needed.<p>I'm also starting to consider posting all of my ideas there.
Personally, I keep a Trello board for various ideas/projects. Whenever I come up with an idea, I put it on a Trello board. I keep boards for blog posts, project ideas, and improvements to existing projects.
I email my ideas to myself, and label them "Project Idea". I also include several tags in the subject in order to find them and filter them easily later on (i.e. game music learning).
i have various ideas that I am sitting on until I am well enough to implement them. if someone does it first fine,but history is filled with people who had great ideas which were ruthlessly stolen often by bigger business's, so i keep my powder dry until I can apply it