Comments on: How Do You Keep Track of Ideas? http://www.writingfornonprofits.com/freelance/2007/05/17/how-do-you-keep-track-of-ideas/ Tips, ideas, and resources for building a freelance writing business serving nonprofits. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:54:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Ali http://www.writingfornonprofits.com/freelance/2007/05/17/how-do-you-keep-track-of-ideas/#comment-13570 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:24:07 +0000 http://www.writingfornonprofits.com/freelance/2007/05/17/how-do-you-keep-track-of-ideas/#comment-13570 I just started the approach Tom has taken - keeping ideas in a Google doc - and it's working great. This way I can access it from home or work and I can start writing the idea out even though it's sometimes just a sentence at a time. I also do Alicia's bookmark approach but never seem to go back to the sites. I just started the approach Tom has taken - keeping ideas in a Google doc - and it’s working great. This way I can access it from home or work and I can start writing the idea out even though it’s sometimes just a sentence at a time. I also do Alicia’s bookmark approach but never seem to go back to the sites.

]]> by: alicia http://www.writingfornonprofits.com/freelance/2007/05/17/how-do-you-keep-track-of-ideas/#comment-4896 Sat, 19 May 2007 17:25:10 +0000 http://www.writingfornonprofits.com/freelance/2007/05/17/how-do-you-keep-track-of-ideas/#comment-4896 Right now, the extent of my "keeping track" plan is to bookmark certain websites that spark a writing idea for me - I have a folder in my bookmarks dedicated to them. Sometimes I revist and actually write about them; most times I forget. I actually have a notebook designed for keeping track - I stopped using it after about the first week of purchase! I should dig that thing out again. Right now, the extent of my “keeping track” plan is to bookmark certain websites that spark a writing idea for me - I have a folder in my bookmarks dedicated to them. Sometimes I revist and actually write about them; most times I forget.

I actually have a notebook designed for keeping track - I stopped using it after about the first week of purchase!

I should dig that thing out again.

]]> by: Tom Chandler http://www.writingfornonprofits.com/freelance/2007/05/17/how-do-you-keep-track-of-ideas/#comment-4840 Thu, 17 May 2007 17:37:19 +0000 http://www.writingfornonprofits.com/freelance/2007/05/17/how-do-you-keep-track-of-ideas/#comment-4840 You ask a good question. Tracking thoughts, sources and ideas when they come through so many different channels (including my own brain) has become a real sore spot. Sounds like you've evolved a system; sounds a little to complex for my tastes, but that might indicate I'm a wild, undisciplined thinker. I carry a small notebook with me, but in spurts. And I'm toying with the idea of a personal digital recorder. From there, everything goes into a Google Docs document that I maintain for article/marketing/blog post/lottery ticket winning ideas. Tracking online information has really complicated the whole mess, and I'm still looking for answers. You ask a good question. Tracking thoughts, sources and ideas when they come through so many different channels (including my own brain) has become a real sore spot.

Sounds like you’ve evolved a system; sounds a little to complex for my tastes, but that might indicate I’m a wild, undisciplined thinker.

I carry a small notebook with me, but in spurts. And I’m toying with the idea of a personal digital recorder.

From there, everything goes into a Google Docs document that I maintain for article/marketing/blog post/lottery ticket winning ideas.

Tracking online information has really complicated the whole mess, and I’m still looking for answers.

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