I've discussed Idea Mining before: every idea that pops into your head, jot it down. When you're looking for inspiration, or have some time to develop some idea, poke around in your mine and see what grabs you.

I started using Evernote, which had the advantage of syncing, but recently switched to Notational Velocity. It lacks syncing, but is much ( Read more... )

So, I've been doing "this thing", the thing being "idea mining". I'm the sort of person that gets all sorts of random ideas during the day. At the time, they always strike me as interesting, but they're always transient. Idea appears, it looks interesting, and then it's forgotten as I go back to the actual task at hand ( Read more... )