https://github.com/daniel-mietchen/ideas
A dumping ground for halfbaked ideas, some of which will hopefully be worked on soon
https://github.com/daniel-mietchen/ideas
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A dumping ground for halfbaked ideas, some of which will hopefully be worked on soon
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/daniel-mietchen/ideas
- Owner: Daniel-Mietchen
- License: other
- Created: 2017-02-10T12:10:15.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-06-15T17:47:12.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-15T18:57:41.574Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: ideas, research-ideas
- Homepage:
- Size: 988 KB
- Stars: 26
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 1,599
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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# About
This repo is for keeping and possibly developing ideas (and I am mainly thinking of research ideas here, though in a broad sense) that I
* cannot immediately put into practice myself
* think may be worth another look, including by people who come in here via search engines
I am also experimenting with using this repo for managing some of my to-do stuff in general, so not just broad ideas but also small things to do when I have [5 min](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A5min) of time, [an hour](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A1h) or [a day](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A1day). While many of these things are one-off, there are also [recurring activities](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/issues?q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc+label%3Arecurring).
# Mechanics
I have yet to figure this out in detail, but probably mainly via issues, perhaps with the "[documentation](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Adocumentation)" label for things that are about the repo rather than about research ideas. Some of the research ideas may end up in the [Journal of Brief Ideas](http://beta.briefideas.org/), others in [Research Ideas and Outcomes](http://riojournal.com/browse_journal_articles.php?form_name=filter_articles&selfurl=&backurl=&sortby=0&journal_id=17&search_hidden=&search_in_=0&search_in_hidden=&alerts_subject_cats=&alerts_sdg_cats=&from_date=&to_date=§ion_type%5B%5D=179&funding_agency=), while yet others may go elsewhere or simply stay here.
# Quotes about ideas
I find it inspiring to browse through collections of quotes around ideas and related concepts. A good starting point here is [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ideas), which gives us, for instance, this one from [Mary Quant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Quant):
> "One thing I learnt was never to hoard ideas because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour them out."
# Files in this repo
* [research-interests.md](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/blob/master/research-interests.md) — an attempt to explore interactions between different lines of research
* [hashtags.md](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/blob/master/hashtags.md) — keeps track of hashtags of interest to me
* [labels.md](https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/blob/master/labels.md) — keeps track of the labels I am using in this repo