Comments on: 3 Hacks for Organizing Your Ideas

By: Maureen

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:26:51 +0000

I tend to organize on the computer. A great one to add is Britely.com where you can save text, ideas, etc, and sort by personalized categories. I have found it helpful and it quickly changed my workflow for saving the articles that I really want to use. (Plus it’s a huge relief from Evernote guilt – EN is great for searching when I know what I want to find, but it’s just not designed for learning new ideas.) Britely is still in beta (invite only for now), You can sign up for an invite on their site http://goo.gl/WR6SD

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Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:37:31 +0000

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Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:43:11 +0000

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By: MamaRed

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:59:01 +0000

Thanks Alyson … I appreciate the heads up!

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:30:36 +0000

In reply to MamaRed.

MamaRed: Just be sure not to use underscores in naming files you put online. Google doesn’t like underscores.

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By: MamaRed

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:11:44 +0000

Great ideas and some wonderful tips in both the article and the comments (even tho’ I’m not an artist, I’m always looking at this kind of stuff to help business owners). Another tip I use for clients is to come up with a way to name all those computer files to help when searching. So, for example, if it is an “idea” the file name may start with “Idea”, then have a date, then a trigger word to remind you what it is related to.
something like:
idea_2012_08_20_organization_01.doc
Geek alert…since I create content systems and automation for companies, file naming is one of those things that is automatic to me and was learned years ago as a trainer. If you put the date, then a two digit month, then two digit year, they are more easily sorted in a file folder. The underscores between the components works because some file systems (yes, even in this day and age…smile) can’t handle spaces in the file name or it causes weird things to happen.

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By: Top Ten Tuesday

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:13:39 +0000

[…] the ArtBizBlog and Alyson Stanfield comes some organizing ideas. I just happened to see her Evernote mention, and I have just started […]

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By: Charmaine

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:03:04 +0000

havent used evernote yet, and now I think i’m missing out on a lot of things. I used pinterest mostly since I’m more of a visual person.. Will download the app now! thanks! 🙂

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By: Laurie McCarriar

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:34:14 +0000

Alyson, I love the index for written notebooks! Even with my geeky approach to nearly everything (like note-taking on my iPad with a stylus, and then storing those in Evernote for searchability), sometimes paper and pen just seem to be the right tool for the job. I come home from a conference with oodles of notes and who knows if I’ll ever really read through them to find what I need).

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By: Becky Joy

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:50:44 +0000

I love evernote. I’ve been using it at least for a year. I do need to go thru and reorganize some of the notebooks. I also use freemind, a mindmap. It helps with the overall plan and the whole business to keep me on track. It helps in how everything fits together in my business.

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