Comments on: Managing Idea Schizophrenia http://www.furrygoat.com/2004/11/04/managing-idea-schizophrenia/ So it goes Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: nex http://www.furrygoat.com/2004/11/04/managing-idea-schizophrenia/comment-page-1/#comment-275 nex Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:14:17 +0000 http://blog.furrygoat.com/2004/11/04/managing-idea-schizophrenia/#comment-275 general ideas (as opposed to specific tasks, projects, processes ...) go into a wiki. which is a great place to put them, because firstly it's easy to link to reference material on the web, and secondly it's easy to refactor the material and link/web it together. after all, we're talking about millions of ideas that i don't really have the time for. thus, i try to factor out common tasks that benefit multiple projects, and find ways to merge multiple ideas into one Grand Idea. a page is digested enough when it's obvious what the project is, what it is good for, and what the Next Action is. which goes in the GTD system du jour. when i don't have the wiki handy, i use my phone's dictaphone feature and transcribe the recording later. general ideas (as opposed to specific tasks, projects, processes …) go into a wiki. which is a great place to put them, because firstly it’s easy to link to reference material on the web, and secondly it’s easy to refactor the material and link/web it together. after all, we’re talking about millions of ideas that i don’t really have the time for. thus, i try to factor out common tasks that benefit multiple projects, and find ways to merge multiple ideas into one Grand Idea. a page is digested enough when it’s obvious what the project is, what it is good for, and what the Next Action is. which goes in the GTD system du jour.

when i don’t have the wiki handy, i use my phone’s dictaphone feature and transcribe the recording later.

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