![[USV Workflow Callout]] Heavily inpsired by [[Dan Koe]]'s brainstorming process — I can't remember where I first came across this but I came across it again in [[Kortex#Course]] > [!TODO] Checklist > - [ ] Fill out topic > - [ ] Fill out references > - [ ] Fill out braindump > - [ ] Think on a structure for how you can organize the brainstormed ideas conceptually > - [ ] Move the brainstormed items into the structure > - [ ] Turn it into new notes or intended outputs My brainstorming is done through [[My Brainstorms]] notes, following the [[Brainstorming Template]]. ## Brainstorming We look for the why, the what, and the how: - Why is found by specifying [[Brainstorms#Topic]] - What is found during [[#Ideation]] - How is the [[#Potential Outputs]] ### Ideation First, we look for existing [[Brainstorms#References]] we already have to use as inspiration for the work. There are five ways you can look for notes, which are highlighted in [[Retrieving information from your notes]] ### Fill out brain dump (how) #### From previous ideas First, we need to extract the ideas in the notes we just found from going through our [[Brainstorms#References]] Whenever you come across something that can be useful, just make a bullet point under either linking to the section or with the copy pasted idea you want to use. #### From current ideas Now that we have a foundation through our past work, we can use it as inspiration to bring out the ideas in our current mind. #### Prompts Can use callouts for different prompts or structures you can add to your draft, inspired by [[Kortex]] workflow. ### Organizing Ideas Now, from your ideas, we can start coming up with paragraphs or groups in [[Brainstorms#Organized Ideas]]: - Are there any emerging patterns or bigger themes that these ideas indicate? - When importing quotes, we can choose to directly quote it or to paraphrase to better fit our writing - For our existing ideas we can rephrase the relevant parts - For previous creations we can choose to reference the video for further details or to only resurface what is relevant To help with structure, we can look at [[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]].