Well, thanks for such a constructive review of our idea management service, Wridea. I also agree with you about those two drawbacks, we are also having the same difficulties while using Wridea. The good news is that, we are going to make easier idea organizing in coming weeks.

Beside of this, lots of more tools and channels will be added to Wridea for managing and adding your ideas easily, quickly.

Thanks again,
Cem Hurturk, Co-Founder,
On Behalf of Wridea Team

I store tons of notes and bookmarks for web links, even write notes when I come up with new ideas.

But then, when I want to find something, I don’t even think of looking it up in my local bookmarks or notes collection. Either google has it, or I give up.

Maybe this would change with a better organisation and search of this stuff – I don’t know.

On another note, I did try out wridea, and I agree that the organisation tools are not as great as they could be. For instance, I have no idea how the ‘idea rain’ is at all useful, except to animate your already existing ‘ideas’.

I’ve tried a number of online organisational tools, from a basic backpackit account to iscribe and now this, but it seems to me that none of them have it right yet.

I may continue to use wridea for the fact that I initially just jotted few ideas I was thinking of playing with for design work, and I get them frequently, so perhaps this could be useful for creatives who just want a place to note the ideas they’d like to work on. On a organisational basis the app has a long way to go perhaps before it challenges some other tools. As a place to note some ideas it isn’t too bad, but as Chris pointed out with Opera you can make ‘notes’ in the browser itself so you have to wonder if what wridea is offering is useful for many more people.

I’ve thought about going web 2.0 with task organization before, but my non-work oriented stuff is light enough to where I’ve found a lot of solutions to be more effort than using a standard spreadsheet / doc to gather things quickly.

How do you keep track of your brainstorming sessions?

I probably don’t have that many ;) but I use Remember the Milk which is essentially a to do list but I use it for noting down ideas for blog posts as well as movies I want to see, songs to vote for in the next JJJ Hottest 100, bills to pay, client calls/emails to follow up on etc.