If you have already read my previous post on How to get post ideas for innovative writing then you might have learned some tips to get blog post ideas. In case if you have missed it, you should read that post before moving further in this post.
Getting a post idea is not the only job but one should also learn to manage and organize their ideas. It happens many times in the life of bloggers when we get some ideas and we think to write them later on. But when we start writing we forget the ideas. It happened with me many times when I lost my valuable ideas. So now I started managing my ideas.
Tips to Manage Post Ideas
Use Notes Application of Your Mobile Phone
Whenever an idea strikes my mind, I use the notes application of my Nokia mobile phone to write about it. What I basically do is, I write the title of the post and few lines about it so that I can easily write about it later. If the idea came to your mind from some reference or from some inspiration work, you can also write about that. Most of the times I use this method.
Keep a Notepad With You
If you are a blogger then you should make a habit of keeping a notepad and of-course a pen with you always. This is because you can write about your ideas on your notepad. Suppose you are traveling in a bus and you want to kill your free time. Then pick your notepad and pen and start writing something in your notepad like about your blogging experience, what you learned in your blogging career, anything that you found interesting. It will surely help you to sharpen your mind and also to improve your writing skills.
Use Sticky Notes
Sticky notes are also very useful to remember the things that we have to do. When you are working on your PC and an idea strikes your mind. Take a sticky note, write on it and paste it on your computer table. ASAT. Whenever my friends come to my place they always look at these sticky notes as they are the most noticeable thing on my computer table 😀
I hope these tips will help you to manage and organize your post ideas. I would love to know how you manage your ideas 🙂
Great idea to post about this, I guess this is problem what we all have to deal with!
I have a Blackberry, what I do, when I come up with some post ideas, is to write my selves and E-mail or record a voice message which I then mail to my selves.
Once I have gathered a few ideas I try to find the optimal chronology of the posts.
In your post about “How to get Post ideas†I would add that visiting the local pub, can be tremendously inspiring, especially if you still can remember it in the morning (-:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us Marten 🙂
That’s three good tips. Thanks Simran.
.-= Bimal Roy´s last blog ..350+ Most Beautiful Twitter Theme Backgrounds =-.
@Simrandeep, It’s Morten not Marten nevertheless you are welcome.
I forgot to mention, a small tip if you are writting travel related blogs, is to get hold of a list of all the events in the area you cover, make sure to publish information about the events in good time.
Morten (-:
.-= Morten´s last blog ..Trogir Croatia | UNESCO Island =-.
Oops ! Sorry for the spelling mistake Morten 😀
Smart ideas you have here. We now live in a highly technical world that anything we want done are done in a more rush manner. Writing thoughts on paper is now only applicable to grade school students. I appreciate your interesting and useful post for many online writers here. Keep up the good work. By the way you might be interested with Zedrooms. It is a global forum for users. Create and manage forums instantly and easily!
Truth. I have a lot of ideas for many things, but the most of them are coming and going like a rain. Sometimes it is so difficult to keep an idea inside one’s head.
That’s why I have written this post to organize the post ideas. Before writing this post, I too lost a lot of my ideas.