Ideas
Unleash Your Creativity: 3 Powerful Ways To Capture & Grow More Creative Ideas by Dan Goodwin
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When you have an idea, store it your voice recorder, and add to it any extra details, thoughts and connected ideas you can think of. Again record enough so that when you return to the stored idea, it immediately comes back to life, rather than causing you to feel it’s just a collection of random unrelated words.
With the article example, I might have recorded something like “how to capture creative ideas, 3 ways, first is book, write ideas in list forms, second way, vocal recorder, speak through ideas and variations, third way more visual, like a mind map, explain each way and give example of how they might work, remember to capture in enough detail to return to and easily expand…”
3. Use a Creative Sketch Pad. With this method, use a plain sketch pad, again something that’s portable enough for you to keep with you at all times. Where the Creative Ideas Book is structured in a list or linear form, use the Creative Sketch Pad in a more free thinking and multi-directional way.
When you have a new idea, write or draw it in the centre of a new page. Then immediately think of the different elements or attributes of the idea. Draw these as lines coming out from that initial central idea.