- Do you want to capture
your ideas quickly and easily and then be
able to visualize them in a way that makes sense to you? Well, in this video I'm showing you five
different ways to organize all of your ideas right here within Walling. One of the reasons why I keep coming back to Walling is just how
easy it is to capture and input information. In this example, I'm looking at redesigning a website homepage and the very first section
which I've created is Ideas. Now in this example, I
already have a couple of bricks where I've started
to input many of my ideas but if I want to add more all I have to do is double
click anywhere on the screen. And maybe I'm going to suggest that we get rid of the
slideshow on the homepage. I can give that as a title here. And then if I want to
add some further details, this is slowing down the
load time of our home screen, something along those lines there. Now of course I can add a lot more
information here as well including the ability to tag this because this would really be more of an SEO issue in this case. And if I really want this one
to stand out, I can also come over here and maybe give
it a distinctive color. In addition to text, we can also make images stand out as we're collecting our ideas. So for example, take a
look at more 3D graphics. Maybe that's something else
that I'd like us to include. So in this case all I'm going to do is
paste an image that I found off of another website
and it's nice and clear. It doesn't just add it
as a simple attachment so I need to go and open it later. If I want to see the
image in its full screen I can do so here, but it's just
that much more stimulating. It's going to be that much more easier for myself and members of
my team to take a look. Again, I'm going to add a quick tag here because that would fall
under the design category but we can also add more
complex elements as well. Here you can see I've added a note about adding responsive images. And if I come down here to the Insert tab you can see the wide
range of different things in which we can add
including a Code block. So in this case, what I'm
going to do is paste a piece of code, which I grabbed just earlier and now I have it right
here as a part of my ideas. So no longer do I have
to reference something to someone else. Now they can come in here,
grab this piece of code and actually add it directly to the project or the webpage
that we're working on. And maybe just for further clarity if I want these code snippets
to stand out even more I'm going to give each of these
bricks just a different shade or a similar shade I should
say, so that they stand out and we can see that
they're grouped together. But if we want to go one step
further and be able to filter or save some specific views,
we can do that here as well. And that's where the many
different views and filters and the ability to pin those
filters become so important. In this case, maybe I
want to add this All view to the top of my section, therefore I can just quickly click on
this and see everything rather than having to disengage
or clear a filter. But let's add a few more. I'm going to add one here called SEO. I'm going to create that view here. And then what I'm going to
do is apply a filter to it. So if I apply this filter here I only want to see the
tags that have SEO applied. I'm going to say filter. That filter is on. And what I can also do is now
pin this to the top as well. So if I need to toggle
between all of my ideas and see everything within this section or if I just want to narrow it down to SEO I can do that here quickly and easily. And now just focus on
the things that I want. Now the second way in which we can quickly and easily organize our ideas
is by using a Kanban method. I'm going to add a new section
down here called Copywriting. So this is where we're going to
add some additional ideas here. But instead of having it visual I'm going to select a
Kanban option here as well. So for example, maybe I'm going to add a
section called Taglines. I'm going to add another one
here called Descriptions. And then maybe a last
one, which is going to be, Call to Actions. I think it's important
for us to remember that the Kanban style of
viewing your information doesn't have to mean,
to do, doing and done or moving things together. Maybe you would prefer a more column style or grouping things
together as in this manner. Let me go ahead and add a few examples. Now you can see that I've grouped my ideas under these respective column
headings, so it's easy to see and easy to work with. And if I want to, of course I can drag and rearrange that content as well. And don't forget, you're not
limited to just adding colors to the bricks themselves,
but you can add them to the headers as well. So in this case, maybe I
want descriptions to stand out a bit more because that's
where we're lacking the most. I can give that an accent
color here as well. And regardless as to
how you structure or lay out your ideas, Walling
makes it so easy for us to include images or other files. Let's say in this note
here, under descriptions, there's that PowerPoint which
is directly related to this. All I need to do is drag and copy it, and now I've got that file
directly embedded here. Easy access for myself and my colleagues when we're discussing
this particular idea. Now, a third way of organizing your
information within Walling is by creating a section
for one specific topic. Sometimes we can be
tempted to create bricks which have a large number of
bullet points, but sometimes if they're too lengthy or too
long, things can get lost. So in this case I want to discuss about
our target audience here. So I'm going to create a new
section called Target Audience. And instead of creating one brick what I'm going to do is
create several bricks that have key headings or key statistics. So maybe my first brick will
be called, Key demographics. That's where we want to focus
on those specific numbers and specific data about our clients. I'm just going to copy and
paste the key information for this brick, and then I
can add something next to it. Maybe something like, Preferred platforms. What are our clients actually
using on a regular basis? So in this case I can just list things such
as, maybe Facebook and YouTube and if I have relevant
information to go along with that I can do that as well. Maybe LinkedIn is another
place that we want to focus on. And lastly, maybe preferred devices. Where are people finding us? And should we be more focused on that when we're
creating our new website? And maybe we understand that 82% of our clients are finding
us on mobile devices. So things like this, we can organize in a bit more of a linear fashion, key pieces of information that stands out without having to group all
of this within a single brick. Also, keep in mind if you
need to make edits or changes you can customize each of these sections. Here you can see under my Target audience I've got three different
columns, but if I need more I can come in here and
adjust that to my needs. Now I can add another key
metric or another key area of my Target audience, and
again, keep things nice and slim, nice and compact before
I add my next section. And for that, we're going to look at our fourth way of
organizing our information. And for this, I'm going to call
this section Files and Assets. How often have you been
looking for a particular file, a particular image, or
something else that is relevant to the project that you're working on or the thing that you're
brainstorming with? And sometimes it can
be difficult to find it within the brick or the
area which you've created. That's where creating a Files or Reference section can be so helpful. Now, rather than going to
find things one at a time, again, Walling makes it super easy to bulk import files and assets. Here on the right hand
side, I have a collection of files that I would like
like to add to this section. But just before I do I'm actually going to
change the section view from visual to list,
and I'll show you why. I'm going to select all
of these files and simply just drag them into my list
here under Files and Assets. And what it's going to do is bring all of those files in here easy
for me to see and access. Now, you could still change
the view here if you wanted to but I find that the list view is perhaps the most functional. Now because it's a list, it's
going to show some check boxes and due dates and who it's assigned to. Don't worry, we can make
some simple adjustments. At the top of every section we have the opportunity
to customize that section. So for example, I can
remove the Mark complete I can remove the Due Date and
the Assigned in this case. So maybe I want to leave the Tags because I'm going to be
adding some tags later. Whatever you are creating or whatever section you are building out, you have so many different
customizable options available to you. And just like with other
bricks within Walling we can make our files stand out as well. Maybe I want this
particular PDF to stand out. I'm going to give it a red shade. And this spreadsheet over here I'm going to give it a
slightly green shade just so people understand
that it's a spreadsheet and maybe it's something
that we use more often than the other files in this section. Now, the fifth way in which
we can organize our ideas is by creating an inspiration section. And this is especially helpful if you're wanting to add a
number of graphics, screenshots or maybe just links to other
web pages or other resources. Here I've titled this section Inspirations and I've got a number of
images already on my desktop. I'm just going to click and drag, drop them here into Inspirations, and now I have them automatically added. So I can come back in here and take a look at maybe
some of the color schemes or some of the other things
that we want to consider. But Walling also makes it super easy. If I want to grab this
image, it's just click bring it up to my Walling tab and drop and immediately I have that
image available to me as well. So again, a great visual way
of grabbing those graphics and keeping them nice and
clean in their own section. Now, I'd love to hear from you next. What questions do you have about
organizing ideas right here within Walling? Be sure to let me know in
the comments down below. And if you're already
a Notion or Trello user you may want to watch
this video to see why Walling may be a better solution for you. Remember, being productive
does not need to be difficult. In fact, it's very simple.
