Implementing an Idea-Management System - LessWrong 2.0

I developed the idea of a “workbench note.” The idea was to have a temporary staging space for collecting ideas that I could then remix and add to.

This is why for the past eight years or so I've been maintaining a single document where I keep all my hunches: ideas for articles, speeches, software features, startups, ways of framing a chapter I know I'm going to write, even whole books. I now keep it as a Google document so I can update it from wherever I happen to be. There's no organizing pr... See more