I had different expectations, a more visual representation of ideas, so it would be easier to get an overview of all ideas and how they relate to other ideas. Like a mindmap with idea details on a click. It did not invite me to actually write down ideas. I can imagine it is a nice tool for larger groups. Refunding this one.
Helps me to collect ideas from everyone from the top managment and also from customers. Gets us different perspectives for the problems we face. This helps me to get out of grey areas and blind spots in our business operations. We use Ideanote for two primary purposes. To get ideas and engagmenet from our core leadership team to improve operations and also for our members for our Challenges. This is where we ask the members to submit their best ideas that worked in their business and our team of evaluators pick the top 3 from the ideas submitted. These ideas are further shared with the community. Ideanote helps us to run these operations smoothly.
I've played around with IdeaNote for a few hours and here's what I can say.
PROS 1. It's a cool idea. 2. I can see it being quite helpful if you have a similar process to the one intended.
CONS: 1. It's buggy. I had a column view bug out and become unresponsive with an 'unknown error' happening in the bottom bar.
2. I also made an automation to move an idea from one collection to another based on likes but immediately hit 2 snags: a) when the idea gets copied across to the collection, it actually appears in EVERY phase instead of in the inbox phase as intended. b) even linking a COMMENT in the idea sends it to the other collection. (hmmmm... surely this can't be desired behaviour!?)
3. It seems to be impossible to allow people to choose what phase their ideas go in without giving them edit access (which allows them to do all kind of things they shouldn't do). This is a HUGE oversight and probably a dealbreaker for me unless I can figure out a workaround.
4. Some really obvious things like having a single column (phase) be uneditable by viewers seems to be not actually possible -they can still comment by the look of it. Also when you move idea cards to other phases they seem to somehow pick up multiple actions (even duplicated ones!) - this is truly annoying and confusing from a UI perspective. Other things liek being able to edit the text of the 'add' idea button which just says 'add' would be nice - kind of surprising this functionality isn't there.
Overall I would say it's promising but actually quite inflexible as a tool which I find really frustrating :(
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Jakob_Ideanote
May 9, 2024
I'm very sorry to hear about this experience! We are really trying our best to build a flexible platform for working with ideas.
On 3) It is very possible to decide where ideas land - you can set one phase as the inbox phase and ideas will land there. You can also add in-app automations if you would like to route ideas based on their content or other metadata.
Their support team is responsive and helpful, enhancing the overall experience. I'm eagerly awaiting the addition of a calendar view feature, which will be a great aid in organizing and planning upcoming ideas and initiatives.
Ideanote is intuetive and useful tool to gather and rate ideas. I plan to use it for getting feedback from my customers (and ideas). I will also make courses and will be using ideanote to validate demand for a specific content/topic of the course. Plus points for several languages to select (interface)...
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I had different expectations, a more visual representation of ideas, so it would be easier to get an overview of all ideas and how they relate to other ideas. Like a mindmap with idea details on a click. It did not invite me to actually write down ideas. I can imagine it is a nice tool for larger groups. Refunding this one.
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Helps me to collect ideas from everyone from the top managment and also from customers. Gets us different perspectives for the problems we face. This helps me to get out of grey areas and blind spots in our business operations.
We use Ideanote for two primary purposes. To get ideas and engagmenet from our core leadership team to improve operations and also for our members for our Challenges. This is where we ask the members to submit their best ideas that worked in their business and our team of evaluators pick the top 3 from the ideas submitted. These ideas are further shared with the community. Ideanote helps us to run these operations smoothly.
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Buggy and missing key features :(
I've played around with IdeaNote for a few hours and here's what I can say.
PROS
1. It's a cool idea.
2. I can see it being quite helpful if you have a similar process to the one intended.
CONS:
1. It's buggy. I had a column view bug out and become unresponsive with an 'unknown error' happening in the bottom bar.
2. I also made an automation to move an idea from one collection to another based on likes but immediately hit 2 snags: a) when the idea gets copied across to the collection, it actually appears in EVERY phase instead of in the inbox phase as intended. b) even linking a COMMENT in the idea sends it to the other collection. (hmmmm... surely this can't be desired behaviour!?)
3. It seems to be impossible to allow people to choose what phase their ideas go in without giving them edit access (which allows them to do all kind of things they shouldn't do). This is a HUGE oversight and probably a dealbreaker for me unless I can figure out a workaround.
4. Some really obvious things like having a single column (phase) be uneditable by viewers seems to be not actually possible -they can still comment by the look of it. Also when you move idea cards to other phases they seem to somehow pick up multiple actions (even duplicated ones!) - this is truly annoying and confusing from a UI perspective. Other things liek being able to edit the text of the 'add' idea button which just says 'add' would be nice - kind of surprising this functionality isn't there.
Overall I would say it's promising but actually quite inflexible as a tool which I find really frustrating :(
Jakob_Ideanote
May 9, 2024I'm very sorry to hear about this experience! We are really trying our best to build a flexible platform for working with ideas.
On 3) It is very possible to decide where ideas land - you can set one phase as the inbox phase and ideas will land there. You can also add in-app automations if you would like to route ideas based on their content or other metadata.
On 4) You decide who has access to...
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I highly recommend Ideanote
Their support team is responsive and helpful, enhancing the overall experience. I'm eagerly awaiting the addition of a calendar view feature, which will be a great aid in organizing and planning upcoming ideas and initiatives.
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Ideanote is intuetive and useful tool to gather and rate ideas. I plan to use it for getting feedback from my customers (and ideas). I will also make courses and will be using ideanote to validate demand for a specific content/topic of the course. Plus points for several languages to select (interface)...
Five tacos after a short usage,
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