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Ideas are not the problem. What happens to them after they're saved is: a list that grows, gets heavy, and stops being opened. Seven articles covering an idea's life from the moment it arrives to the decision to delete it.
Capturing it — Where do ideas come from? · Voice notes
Saving it so it survives — Why your idea stock becomes a graveyard · Why Bardiyah instead of a notes app
From an idea to something filmable — From vague to filmable · Research before writing
And letting go — When do you delete an idea?
He carried the idea for three months, then opened YouTube and found a big channel had published the same idea with almost his title. Four questions that settle whether to make it, five ways to stand out on a well-worn idea, and the line you do not cross.
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He spent two weeks on an idea he loved, published it, and nothing moved. The test that would have cost him ten minutes would have told him that before he started. Four cheap tests, and what to measure in each.
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Eighty ideas in the list and forty videos published, and when he read his own titles in a row, not two of them belonged to the same thing. Three ways to group your stock into series, and four conditions for one that works.
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One idea in a voice note to himself, one in the notes app, one as a screenshot, one as a bookmark. And when he sat down to film he found nothing. A one-hour gathering pass, and a fifteen-minute weekly habit.
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An event spread in a day, so he filmed a video overnight. It took views for two days, and two weeks later nobody understood it. Three layers in every event, four ways to convert one, and the one-year test.
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You opened your idea list and found a hundred and forty ideas, three of which you filmed. Seven signs it's time to delete, what you never delete, and one question that settles every idea.
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You sat for four hours in front of a blank page writing a script about old markets, and decided you can't write. The difference between a subject and an idea, and four questions that ripen yours.
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You sat down to film, opened a list of two hundred ideas, and found nothing in it. Why saved ideas die, three states instead of one list, and three lines to write with every idea.
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He cited a figure in the video, a comment asked for the source, and he went looking and found none. Four layers of sources, three questions for verifying any number, and when to stop researching.
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He sat for two hours at a blank page trying to generate ideas, and came away with three he didn't like. Six sources to return to instead of waiting for inspiration, and how to filter them.
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A whole idea came to him on the road, and by evening all that was left was a line he couldn't decode. How to capture ideas in your own voice, and when to write versus when to record.
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Forty notes in his notes app, between a shopping list and a phone number, and no way to tell which was ready. The difference isn't capturing the idea, it's what happens to it afterwards.
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