You teach us-Organizing Creativity

I branched off from the idea of ‘Where is your pencil’ chapter in Twyla Tharp’s where she talks about always having a pencil handy to record your thoughts ideas inspiration. This repository is the place which you can later dig into to create new compositions.

Having the bulk of ideas to play around is the first thing but there has to be a method to madness.

Thus the learning objective of the YTU was: Creativity needs as unlikely ally-‘Organization’.

I introduced the group to Evernote, a software application that one can use to organize their thoughts, ideas from different touch points. This application helps you create a note. A "note" can be

—  Typing

—  Handwriting

—  Spoken word

—  Snap a picture

—  Drawings

—  Clip a portion of a web page

—  Clip an entire web page

Thus it provides the flexibility to catalog and organize your ideas irrespective of the medium in one centralized location. I gave a demo of few applications, and then talked about how I intend to use the tool (very new to its use)

—  To collect all the pieces of information

—  Create a system of tags-'book', 'note', 'idea'

—  Allow for easy search- folders, tags, search

—  Create a kind of wiki of everything I learn and crosslink ideas

 The main theme of the presentation was: 'Creativity needs an unlikely ally-Organization to deal with different ideas and realize projects'.