[HN Gopher] Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity ___________________________________________________________________ Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity Author : Topolomancer Score : 69 points Date : 2022-08-20 17:14 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (bastian.rieck.me) (TXT) w3m dump (bastian.rieck.me) | malux85 wrote: | Now push Ideas.md to GitHub and share it! | mmcconnell1618 wrote: | I really like the notion that you capture the idea at a point in | time but purposely revisit the list on a regular basis. I've had | similar experiences where coming back to an idea after a few | months allows me to express it in a more refined way. Capturing | the initial thought in a simple text file reduces the mental | burden and allows temporal arbitrage. | Cupertino95014 wrote: | Totally right. What no one's mentioned yet is the immense value | of someone who can listen to your crazy idea, and just play | around with it. Someone who accepts that many of your ideas, or | even most, are crazy, but you never know which one might not be. | | Or if it IS crazy, maybe there's some variation that isn't. | boilerupnc wrote: | Totally agree with the sentiment of this post. My crazy pile is | named "My Half-Bakery". | | I revisit it often to refine and ponder and/or add. It has helped | inspire patents and given me insights in connecting things that | otherwise would nag me to a point of being distracted. I've found | the "Lateral Thinking" ideation approach championed by Edward De | Bono [0] helpful as a tool to realize disconnected concepts that | nag me as related in someway means their is something interesting | there. While not always obvious, after entering the vague thought | it gives me a mystery to solve as to "why do I sense a | relationship there". Many times that eventually leads to an "aha" | and then validation that it feels so obvious now in retrospect. | Those moments are rare but exhilarating when they happen. | | [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking | throwaways85989 wrote: | To much rationality or filtering early on in creativity detrains | your mind from being creative. | | No dopamine on discovery of the new, prevents that circuitry from | running after a while. Write it down, filter it later. Celebrate | even ridiculous ideas and approaches, consider them not "failed" | nonsense, but in-between-steps as your subconcious works on the | next, better solution. Let self-critique not be negative | "Ridiculous, never would work with the physics we got" but more | "constructive" -"that would be great if we could get it to fly". | | Also remember, that your subconscious works with the knowledge it | got. It needs input, to create strange mashups. Get your input | way outside of your field to not be stuck in the solutions of | your peers. | EliasWatson wrote: | I use Obsidian for this exact purpose. Anytime I have an idea, I | open up Obsidian, hit ctrl+n for a new note, give it a title, tag | it with '#idea', and write whatever I think is nessecary to | understand it in the future. Since each idea is a separate file, | I won't be tempted to worry about ordering. Obsidian also lets me | link related ideas together and it's easy to find an idea again | in the future and add some notes to it. | | Like the author, I've found that writing down my ideas greatly | increases the amount/frequency of new ideas I have. I went from | having a decent new idea maybe once a week to now having multiple | decent new ideas a day. The problem now is focusing on one idea | at a time without getting distracted by all the shiny new ideas. | computator wrote: | As someone who keeps an ideas file as well as files for | quotations, new words I learned, and Hacker News submissions I | didn't have time to read, I think it's freeing for my mind but I | find that I never go back to review them. I found it surprising | that the OP has the discipline to set aside time once a month to | go back and review his file. | mentos wrote: | I have a folder on Dropbox called "Highdeas" just for this. For | me it's not even about logging them so that I can come back to | them but just so that I can move on. | matthewfcarlson wrote: | I hate the feeling of forgetting an idea but also have a hard | time finishing something before a new thing comes along. So it's | a bit of a catch 22. I want to write down the ideas, but if it's | written down I tend to start researching and figuring out code | structure in my head. | genjipress wrote: | In the golden years of Disney's animation industry, the animators | kept a bulletin board out in the hallway between the studios | where each animator worked. This board was dubbed "the goodie | board". If you came up with a concept, a sketch, a shot, that | didn't work for whatever you were doing but which you liked | anyway, you could pin it to the goodie board, where others were | welcome to take it wholesale or crib from it. | | I kept this idea for my own use. If I have an idea in a story I'm | working on and it doesn't quite fit, but I like it anyway, I save | it to my own goodie board. On rainy days I poke through it, and | oftentimes I find something worth reusing in another context. | xipho wrote: | Love it, I have the same. "GoodIdeas" in my Vim potwiki(0). Most | of them I shared in passing, maybe one or two I hold on to | actually being special. Have often thought of an anonymous | twitter feed as an alternative. | | [0] https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1018. | metadat wrote: | How does this compare with VimWiki? | | https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki | xipho wrote: | There is no markup in the former, you just get highlighted | words whenever there is any (capitalized) camel case word. | Hit enter on the word and you get to the new file. Super | lightweight, super efficient. | | I don't render most of the notes I take, but will write draft | in markdown from time to time. The wiki is in a git repo, of | course, that I commit to once in a while. | [deleted] | BubbleRings wrote: | I _hate_ the feeling of "oh I had a great idea yesterday, that | was so cool, what was it again? Oh no, is it gone?" | | So I also try to make sure I get them jotted down. I used to use | Dropbox, I think I will switch back to it again. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-20 23:00 UTC)