The Rhythm That Finally Made My Notes Come Alive
I didn’t need more notes. I needed a rhythm.
I can still remember my Evernote folders.
Hundreds and hundreds of ideas. Quotes. Snippets. Half-sentences.
Things I thought were too good to lose.
And I didn’t lose them — not technically. They just got buried.
Every once in a while, I’d open Evernote and scroll through those old notes, thinking, wow, there’s some good stuff here.
But that’s all it ever was — inspiration with no perspiration.
I wasn’t thinking with those ideas.
I wasn’t connecting, distilling, or sharing them.
I was just hoarding.
So, naturally, I thought the problem was the app.
I switched to Bear Notes. Then to Notion.
I built dashboards. Created relational databases.
Spent hours designing “the perfect system.”
Everything looked beautiful.
But I still wasn’t thinking.
No connections.
No distillation.
No movement.
And that’s when I realized — I didn’t need a better system.
I needed a rhythm.
A way to let my ideas breathe.
That’s when everything started to change.
I began picking one idea at a time — not ten — and giving it space.
I’d walk. Talk out loud. Map it visually. See how it connected to other ideas.
And slowly, the notes I’d been collecting started to speak to each other.
Ideas that once felt random began forming patterns.
Quotes I’d saved years ago suddenly linked to things I was learning now.
And from there… I began to write, record, and share — with clarity.
That rhythm is what became Idea to Insight — the 5-step practice that helps you move from scattered notes to connected ideas you can actually use.
Tomorrow, I’ll walk you through that rhythm.
It’s simple, flexible, and powerful enough to change how you think.
Until then, here’s a question worth sitting with:
“Am I collecting ideas — or cultivating them?”
— Greg
P.S. I’m offering Idea to Insight for $27 this week only (normally $47).
If your digital drawers are full of ideas you’ve never revisited, this rhythm will help you finally bring them to life.