First, address the qualities of the top of your ideas funnel. Needs to be quick, always available. Organization doesn't matter much here because ideally you'll be reviewing this with enough frequency that a giant list of random things isn't overwhelming. Whatever works for you, IM sounds like a fine idea. Sometimes i use Siri reminders because voice interface.
Second is organizing. The basis way to represent ideas and info is relational, and generally a hierarchy is necessary for compressing into bigger digestible thoughts. So something that can help you model in that way and do it easily. I use Notion because it is naturally hierarchical with it's pages embedded in other pages and the ability to dump in any kind of content. When the page gets too much content and it gets hard to organize I break it into subpages.
Occasionally I'll want to reorganize things and that's straightforward too. For me these tools work really well but like many people are saying it's important to recognize a good process too.
First, address the qualities of the top of your ideas funnel. Needs to be quick, always available. Organization doesn't matter much here because ideally you'll be reviewing this with enough frequency that a giant list of random things isn't overwhelming. Whatever works for you, IM sounds like a fine idea. Sometimes i use Siri reminders because voice interface.
Second is organizing. The basis way to represent ideas and info is relational, and generally a hierarchy is necessary for compressing into bigger digestible thoughts. So something that can help you model in that way and do it easily. I use Notion because it is naturally hierarchical with it's pages embedded in other pages and the ability to dump in any kind of content. When the page gets too much content and it gets hard to organize I break it into subpages.
Occasionally I'll want to reorganize things and that's straightforward too. For me these tools work really well but like many people are saying it's important to recognize a good process too.