I scribble ideas down wherever I can at the time, so they are spread through my desk notebook (which is mostly used for my educational publishing work and domestic stuff, but doodles and notes end up creeping in there) a dedicated art business notebook, that wanders around the house and multiple sketchbooks. Oh and I also set up a folder recently in Fresco for ideas where I pop thumbnails or notes of loose ideas. What I should probably do is take a photo of anything that I scribble down in a notebook or sketchbook and then store them in that ideas folder. (Also have a sketches folder in Fresco where I can go to pick up a sketch and start working it up. But that's mostly been used for sketches I drew in Fresco - I need to start photographing and popping my physical sketches in there, too.).
Thank you, this is a useful thing to mull over and I definitely want to bring the organised me who shows up in my educational publishing work into my creative illustration work, because I think it will make a huge difference and help push me forward a lot.
1. It's a great topic, and an important one for creatives.
2. I may have shared with you before my PKM geekiness. I use a combination of Apple Notes and Obsidian for collecting and building on ideas that come to me. I also use PlayBook as a swipe file for more visual inspiration.
3. I'd like to read a little more about what you consider 'material', and the discernment process. It wouldn't do (for me) to simply capture and collect everything that catches me attention - a lot of it is true drivel, and I know I'm discerning truthfully. But I can't explain to you how that mechanism works, so I'd like to read a bit about how your mind processes things.
4. Hmm... will think and send links.
5. Beauty of a digital PKM system is you don't need to worry *too* much about organising, because as long as it's in there you can search for it. I just make sure I use some really obvious tags and back links to active projects that it could relate to. And I try to minimise collection of *physical* materials - because organising things isn't what I want to be doing with my time.
I really need to be more organised with this.
I scribble ideas down wherever I can at the time, so they are spread through my desk notebook (which is mostly used for my educational publishing work and domestic stuff, but doodles and notes end up creeping in there) a dedicated art business notebook, that wanders around the house and multiple sketchbooks. Oh and I also set up a folder recently in Fresco for ideas where I pop thumbnails or notes of loose ideas. What I should probably do is take a photo of anything that I scribble down in a notebook or sketchbook and then store them in that ideas folder. (Also have a sketches folder in Fresco where I can go to pick up a sketch and start working it up. But that's mostly been used for sketches I drew in Fresco - I need to start photographing and popping my physical sketches in there, too.).
Thank you, this is a useful thing to mull over and I definitely want to bring the organised me who shows up in my educational publishing work into my creative illustration work, because I think it will make a huge difference and help push me forward a lot.
1. It's a great topic, and an important one for creatives.
2. I may have shared with you before my PKM geekiness. I use a combination of Apple Notes and Obsidian for collecting and building on ideas that come to me. I also use PlayBook as a swipe file for more visual inspiration.
3. I'd like to read a little more about what you consider 'material', and the discernment process. It wouldn't do (for me) to simply capture and collect everything that catches me attention - a lot of it is true drivel, and I know I'm discerning truthfully. But I can't explain to you how that mechanism works, so I'd like to read a bit about how your mind processes things.
4. Hmm... will think and send links.
5. Beauty of a digital PKM system is you don't need to worry *too* much about organising, because as long as it's in there you can search for it. I just make sure I use some really obvious tags and back links to active projects that it could relate to. And I try to minimise collection of *physical* materials - because organising things isn't what I want to be doing with my time.