> [!example] > [[My Book Applications]] ## Why Overcome writers block and information overwhelm by having a secluded and systematic place for your [[Thinking]]. ## What Brainstorms are a note type to help you synthesize the different resources and ideas from your notes into a specific topic or focus. If you just want to explore your curiosities without a specific aim, you can look into [[Maps of Content (MOC)]] ## How Uses [[Brainstorming Template]] My process can be seen in [[My brainstorming workflow]] ### Structure #### Topic This is to specify the goal of your writing so we have an ideal vision or direction to work towards. *What is the big idea you're thinking about? What do you want to focus on?* #### References This is where the power of [[PKM System]] comes in. Instead of starting from a blank page, we resurface previous ideas and writings to use as inspiration. #### Brain Dump #### Organized Ideas This is where we find order in the chaotic mixture of our [[#References]] and [[#Brain Dump]] by [[My brainstorming workflow#Organizing Ideas|organizing our ideas]]. Consider using one of yours or [[My writing frameworks]] ### Potential Outputs Now that we've finished our thinking, it's time to choose how we use it. If this brainstorm was for making a new blog post, we can create a blog note and revise it a bit to be ready for publish. But once we are finished, it's best we preserve these ideas for nurturing by integrating them into the rest of our notes. This can be done through [[Evergreen Notes]].