本文探讨了如何更有效地记录和执行个人想法，涵盖了电影剧本、副业、技能学习等多种类型。作者从电影人的角度出发，分享了包括纳博科夫的索引卡片、琼·里弗斯的笑话档案等多种记录方式。文章的核心问题在于如何确保这些想法不会被遗忘，并最终转化为实际行动。作者还提出了一个疑问，即对于不同类型的想法，如应用程序、研究或职业规划，应该如何记录和管理，以最大化其价值和实现的可能性。

💡 作者正寻求一个系统，帮助执行大量积压的想法，包括电影剧本、副业、技能学习等，这些想法种类繁多且数量巨大。

🗂️ 作者的记录方法受到电影行业的影响，例如纳博科夫的索引卡片、琼·里弗斯的笑话档案等，这些方法各有特点，但都旨在保存和整理想法。

🤔 文章的核心问题是，如何记录不同类型的想法，比如应用程序、研究或职业规划，并确保它们不会被遗忘，最终能被执行。作者希望找到一种优化的方法，既能记录又能回顾和执行这些想法。

Published on December 17, 2024 7:26 AM GMT

I am currently looking for a system which will help me execute some of my massive backlog of ideas. By “ideas” I include my hundreds and hundreds of story outlines for films with a handful of finished screenplays, but also things like: alternative income streams, or day jobs, or skills or abilities I’d like to learn/get (coding, traditional animation, dance the Tango, conversational Italian), as well as a host of other projects.

Before I get to the determining how to better pick which ideas I should pursue, I was wondering if there was any more I could do to optimize my current idea recording method. Some of this overlaps with the GTD concept of the "Someday" bucket. But what I don't like about that is that I'd very much like to ensure I review and act upon some of these ideas.

So how do most of you record your ideas? Where do you put them? Where do you keep them, not so in the dark as to never seen sunlight again?

I'm from a film background, so my knowledge of idea-capture is influenced by anecdotes of everyone from Vladimir Nabokov's index cards which in the early gestational stage he describes as "...including the accumulation of seemingly haphazard  notes,  the secret  arrowheads  of  research", Joan Rivers or Bob Hope's archives of decade's of accumulated jokes organized by subject, or the unfiltered and uncensored NO-NO sessions of Robert Clampett at the birth of a cartoon. To Jerry Lewis typing out between shows the screenplay the Bell-Joy, which to be fair is more of a anthology of isolated jokes than a continuous narrative?

But what about when you have an idea for an app? For research? For an algorithm? Or yes, career moves and similar choices? Where do you put that idea? How do you ensure you don't lose it so that you can maximize the chances of doing something with it?

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