Where do you store your blog and article ideas?

Moments of inspiration can be fleeting.

When you’re the ideas person in your company responsible for editorial calendars for the blog or news section or the social media calendar, capturing those ideas is just as important as actually writing about them.

If you don’t have ideas, you don’t have material to write about.

Our blog posts may be intermittent but that’s not thanks to a lack of ideas. All our ideas are neatly recorded for when we want to use them. How do we do this?

The back of a beermat doesn’t really cut it these days, but one thing I always have with me is my phone. It’s a smartphone and one of the apps I’ve downloaded helps me record these ideas very easily.

I was introduced to Wunderlist last year by productivity coach Claire Burge of Get Organised and one of the unexpected uses for it has been recording ideas for articles and blog posts quickly.

I have it as an iPhone app, an iPad app, a Windows app on my PC and laptop and I can also access it from any browser. The instructions below refer to capturing ideas on-the-go from the Wunderlist iPhone app, which you obviously have to download first (don’t worry it’s free)

How it works

• Tap the Wunderlist app on your phone and start typing into the ‘add an item’ field
• Click Next on the keypad and your idea is stored in your inbox

Have a little more time?

• Open the menu
• Click on your Blog ideas list (or whatever you call your list for this purpose)
•  Start typing into the ‘add an item’ field
• Click Next on the keypad and your idea is stored in the correct list

Inspired by other pieces of content?

If you find inspiration in other people’s writing you can use ‘Add to Wunderlist’ for clippings from content to links. It’s all explained over on the Wunderlist blog.

Lacking in inspiration?

Here’s an end-f-blog-post call to action for you. Get us to deliver your ideas to you. You can write the piece if you want but we’ll give you the ingredients.