The Idea Archive
Most ideas arrive as fragments: a line overheard on a train, a question you can't answer yet, a picture that won't leave you alone, and most of them are gone by the end of the week unless something catches them. The Idea Archive catches them, keeps them together, and lets them rest for as long as they need, until one of them is ready to become something. It's made for people with a lot of ideas and little time: writers, artists, designers, and anyone else who makes things.
See the demo: open The Idea Archive in Notion
A view-only copy of the template with its sample ideas in place, so you can click through every page and view before you buy.
Everything goes into the inbox first, unsorted. From there an idea gets its own row, with its seed kept as it arrived, and moves through the stages as it firms up: Spark, Incubating, Developing, Ready, Made, or Shelved. Notes hold the quotes, references, observations, and images that feed your ideas, each with a source specific enough to find again. Pairings put two ideas side by side for ten minutes with one of eight prompts, to see what happens between them, because the idea you eventually make often comes from two small ones that sat near each other for months.
The archive is built for seasons. Nothing in it counts the days since you last opened it, and there are no streaks or quotas. Once a month, a fifteen-minute review brings the resting ideas back into view: Waiting longest lists the ideas that have gone longest untouched, and you add a line, move them along, or shelve them. An idea is Ready when you can say what it will be, roughly how big it is, and what the first session of work would be.
Saint Violet is an independent creative studio for artists and writers building a more durable creative practice through tools, publications, workshops, and systems for attention, experimentation, and actual follow-through.
The Complete Saint Violet Collection
If you find yourself coming back for more than one or two of these, the whole shop is available as a single instant download, built around the five books that take a novel from first idea to finished manuscript and growing with each new release, so anything made later arrives in the same library at no extra cost.
$250.00, one link to the whole library
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