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How To Record Your Brainstorming Ideas

All the great brainstorming sessions in the world aren’t worth a darn if you forget every great (and not-so-great) idea you’ve come up with. There’s no excuse for it either, failing to recall the fruits of a brainstorming session. Not when there are so many convenient and effective ways to save those ideas for later use. The following are just some of the ways to record the ideas you generate in a brainstorm.

1. Notebooks and Journals

Lined for strictly verbal ideas, unlined to incorporate images and diagrams in with the words. Either way, notebooks are a tried and true method of capturing great ideas. The advantages are that they’re a portable, flexible, and fast way of recording information. You don’t’ have to boot up a notebook, nor do you have to worry about the battery charge running out of it or finding a place to plug it in. The disadvantages are that they’re not as portable as some alternate recording tools, and notebooks have poor search capabilities, to put it mildly.

2. Index cards

Durable and portable, and incredibly inexpensive, index cards have an added advantage over notebooks and journals in that you can restrict each card to a single main idea and then organize and reorganize the cards as the ideas form, change, and develop. You can more easily add, remove, and reorder ideas using index cards than a notebook. Index cards are only a starting point, however, and therein lies they’re disadvantage, for eventually you’re most likely going to want to transfer the ideas written there into some electronic form. Unless you enjoy transcription (or have someone to do it for you), index cards might prove to be a bit of a hassle in the long run.

3. PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants)

It started out with the Palm Pilot. Then came the Blackberry. Now there’s the HP iPaq and hundreds more. Take your pick. Whatever PDA you select you’ll find the same convenient spontaneity of breaking it out, jotting down a quick note, and later synchronizing your PDA with your computer so that you instantly have all your notes filed together digitally. This makes for easier reading, searching, and sharing. Having your ideas stored digitally also allows you to later edit them and expand upon them, a feat that can get quite messy with a notebook or journal. Unlike PCs, PDAs don’t require a long boot up sequence to power up. Just press a button and you’re ready to go. The drawback to PDAs is that they’re not well-suited for recording images, sketches, diagrams, etc. Another disadvantage some people may find with PDAs is difficulty with handwriting recognition. Some people have better results writing with a stylus than others.

4. Micro-cassette or digital audio recorder

A myriad of companies now manufacture micro-cassette and digital audio recording units small enough to fit right into your pocket or sit on your desk. You can even keep it on your nightstand for those sudden bursts of unplanned inspiration that hit you in the middle of the night. Of course, any information recorded in an audio format will eventually have to be transcribed one way or another into print. Fortunately, many digital voice recorders can now be plugged straight into your computer, the audio files transferred and then transcribed automatically by voice recognition software. One other mixed review of digital and micro-cassette recorders is that it’s easy to leave yourself notes and expound upon ideas this way, but it’s not so helpful for recording visual information, like diagrams and illustrations.

Other brainstorming recording ideas include Mind Maps (see our article on the subject), idea files and databases, butcher block paper, and - when all else fails - leaving yourself a voice mail message. The bottom line is that with all the various and sundry ways to get your ideas down for easy future retrieval, there is no excuse for forgetting a good idea anymore.

With all this variety in tools at your disposal, don’t ever let it be said that you had a great idea once, but forgot it.

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