ideakit

Keep one ideas repo, one folder per idea, and think about exactly one of them at a time. ideakit captures an idea the moment it arrives, runs the discussion sessions, reports where every idea stands, dispatches the research and validation work to the kits that own it, and folds an answer back into that idea's own log when the user asks to keep it.

An idea is a subject someone wants to think about, not a project they have committed to building. Some ideas become products. Most stay notes, and that is the design.

A jot is smaller again: a thought with no folder, no slug, and no commitment. The jotpad takes any subject at any time, and a jot earns a folder by coming back.

Eight modes. jot drops a loose thought into the pad. promote turns a jot that keeps returning into its own idea. capture writes an idea down and stops. session is the mode that thinks. status reports and writes nothing. research and validate send a question out and bring the answer back. close records a verdict.

jot, promote, capture, and close write on their own. Every other mode offers its writes and takes no for an answer. See Saving is a demand, not a default.

Mode selection

Resolve on intent, not on phrasing.