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		randomsearch on Jan 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative tho... If this dispersed collection of ideas from so many minds ticking away over time holds potential to improve the world, can we tap it? Is there some way to make visible and actionable this potentially vast resource? An open source model for ideation? A marketplace for ideas, insights, observations?

Jarwain on Jan 6, 2019 [–]

Honestly? It reminds me of Twitter, or what the platform enables. Like how the OP just sends themselves messages, it's easy to open up Twitter and send out a bite-sized idea to share across the world.

Mastodon could probably fill a similar niche

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