For years, I kept mine in the inexpensive college-ruled dollar notebooks. While others were scattered about, usually never found unless I had a big cleaning-out party. Even then, very few were ever found.
One day I realized the best place for them was in my LifeJournal, journal software. After adding my current ideas, and figuring out how to best use them in the software, I set out on a quest to find all my scattered ideas along with pulling down my idea notebooks from the closet shelf.
Having them all in one location makes me feel my ideas are more valuable now. Not just tossed out stuff. However, not just that, I felt they were safer. I knew where I could find them. And find them I do.
Aaaag, another software! Yes, I know. Why can't this be done in MS Word? Well, it can't. At least not as easy and findable than in LifeJournal.
The recall search abilities are beyond fantastic to say the least, let me explain one way it continuously helps me.
In lifeJournal, I can add a single line idea or a lengthy one in a single post. Alternatively, I can add many in a group. For example, I have ideas I want to do for my websites, books, informational material, my blog, seminars, teleclasses, and more. So, I added a category for each of these. Now, I just keep adding my ideas into those posts. Yet sometimes, I writing a section for a book and a website idea spring's up. Normally, I'd have to close that post, open the appropriate "idea" category, and add it there and return to what I was writing before. Or have to do this after I finished what I was writing.
In LifeJournal, I didn't need to do this. All I do is highlight the idea line or paragraph, leave it right where I added it, and click category. The software highlights just that area and marks it with that category. Simple. I can even mark five or six items to different categories.\
Here's the amazing part. I decided I wanted a printed list of all my book ideas. Now, remember, many are scattered in many journal posts in other subjects. I searched on the category and it went through and created a printed version of all my book ideas. The report pulled the highlighted areas only that category and printed all of them out. It took only three minutes and I have a list of ideas dating back to 1998 when I began using the software. One after the other. Nothing out. This always amazes me. MS Word or any other word processor would mess this up royally.
The software is under $40 and took me less than 8 minutes to learn to use thanks to their video training. The installation is a breeze. It's not a memory hog like MS Word.
After using the regular LifeJournal software for a few years, they came out with the "For Writers" version. I use this version now. It fits my purpose better. It has a draft version and ability to track my submissions.
I can continue raving about this software for hours. I'd prefer you to see for yourself. They have a trial version that's easy to download and try it out and see what I'm raving about. If you have a question, be free to write me. I'll give it a whirl sharing what I know. Maybe you'll be teaching me something.
Just the other day I was talking with a client on the phone. I remember an idea I had a while back. In less than a minute I found it in the software with the search feature and in another minute emailed it to her. I've learned I can't complete all my ideas and sharing them with my clients makes me more attractive for them using my services. My client ran with the idea and make good money from it immediately and still is.
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