Keeping A List of Ideas
Day 40 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide
One easy way you can improve the quality and number of posts you write is to create an idea list. Although I’m sure there are a wide variety of tools available to help you manage a list of post ideas, my personal favorite is Google Docs and SpreadSheets. Google docs, or any other tool like it, allows you to keep track of your great ideas and manage them easily.
Why have an idea list?
You never know when you are going to get a good idea. Most of the time when I get a great idea for a post, I don’t have time to work on it then. However if I don’t do something about it right away, chances are I’ll forget my idea. The best compromise is to simply write down my idea, and come back to it when I have time.
Keeping your list online instead of on your local machine is a good idea as well. By keeping your list online you can access it anywhere at anytime. If you are at your office or on a trip there is a good chance you will have access to the web. So store the data there and make life easy for yourself.
What to do with it?
The best part about keeping an idea list online is the ability to flesh out your ideas as you go. If you have a really great idea, but you don’t have time to work on it, you can jot down a little outline. Later on you might have some things to add or take away. By the time you really do have a chance to site down and work on your killer idea it is already half written. You could have most of what you are going to say already in your computer for free. You will just need to flesh it out, which is much easier than coming up with the idea at the time.
on July 9th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Every time I get a new idea, I jot it down. So right now I have this list on a page, and I have to go through it and organize it. I think I’ll make that into a post!