Small Ideas: The problem with collaborative brainstorming tools.

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Edistorm.

Here is a tool that facilitates collective brainstorming using e-sticky notes. I love sorting and organizing and this tool seems to be set up quite nicely. I also love things that are colourful. I really wanted to find this useful.

BUT, it suffers from the same limitation that every other tool I’ve looked at has: the writing part is LINEAR. The notes are placed in nice neat rows. Ideas aren’t like that.

The sticky notes here (like all other sticky notes I’ve seen) use the keyboard.

The first thing that occurred to me when I looked at this tool was that I would use it IFF I could write notes using my Wacom pen tablet.

I still have and use paper sticky notes. I find them very useful. Know why? Because they do not require me to put my thoughts down in a linear fashion. I write notes at an angle. Different angles grab my attention in different ways. I also circle things and draw arrows. These are crucial elements.

I’ll wait.

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