Modern Optimist

Idea Bin: To Do Liiist

NotesTruth is, every person who works online has once in their lives thought of creating their own to-do-list application.

This idea was meant to tie in with my previous Idea Bin entry, Reminder To Me, but as you can see they both found themselves in the idea bin:)

My idea was more about a fresh concept in task vs idea management opposed to creating another to-do-list app which the market is definitely not crying for.

Below I’ll explain exactly how the idea works and why I’m not rolling it out as an online app. You can totally use this idea on paper yourself, I do on a daily basis and it works really well.

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Idea Bin: Reminder To Me

Alarm Clock

I’ve been promising it for a while and it’s finally here… the first post in the Idea Bin category, the binning of ‘Reminder To Me’.

For those of you who have recently joined my blog, the ‘Idea Bin’ is a place where I can bury my bad (awesome-at-the-time) ideas. I’ll explain where I thought it had it’s appeal and you can have a good chuckle or maybe even add some input to improve on the idea.

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Introducing The Idea Bin

Paper BinOften right in the middle of a really productive work session I’ll come up with an idea, which at the time is life changing.

I brainstorm, buy domains, setup hosting, emails, twitter, install wordpress… next thing you know it’s 4hrs later, the day has ended and I’ve ignored my whole days tasks.

A couple weeks later I realize the idea is not as lucrative as I thought and land up throwing it in the, what I like to call, ‘Idea Bin’.

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