An idea stockpile for problem solvers

Your most useful work ideas surface during time off

Ideas that help at work often don't arrive while you're focused on building a presentation or in the middle of a meeting. They tend to come during relaxed, off-the-clock moments.

An improvement plan that forms during a walk, a single line from a documentary at home, a sharp perspective encountered while reading, an industry trend glimpsed in the news. Yet few people can hold on to these problem-solving hints in their head until the next workday.

Idea stockpile in Ikes

Can you actually find the notes you wrote in your note app?

Plenty of people jot ideas down in a note app or on sticky notes. But not knowing where the note ended up, or forgetting you wrote it at all — these experiences are common.

  • Important notes get buried among miscellaneous ones and can't be found
  • Rereading a note later, you can't remember what it was meant for
  • The sticky note has vanished entirely

These are structural problems with conventional note-taking: there's no way to organize valuable ideas encountered off the clock into a form that fits a work context.

With Ikes, ideas picked up off the clock become assets you can use at work

Ikes is a new kind of note app that saves notes and images on a per-idea basis and lets you attach metadata like tags and sources. It's full of thoughtful details designed to make your ideas easy to find later.

For example, when you save a note you might add details like these:

  • Tags such as "Sales Improvement," "Customer Understanding," "Org Challenges," or "New Business"
  • Sources such as the documentary title, news program, book, or person you were talking with

That alone is enough for ideas gained during your free time to naturally sort themselves into a work-relevant context. When you switch back to work mode the next day, just filter by tag to narrow down the theme you need. The idea feed also lets you refine further by star status or whether images are attached.

On top of that, Ikes' Intelligent Search lets you describe what you're looking for in your own words and pulls up semantically related notes. Intelligent Discovery automatically surfaces past notes connected to the one you're currently viewing.

Keep tossing ideas into Ikes, and they'll be there when you need them. The flashes of insight from your time off become a reliable part of your working toolkit.