Ideation — Notes to Plans

Turn unstructured notes, brain dumps, and scattered ideas into organized, actionable plans.

How it works

Paste your raw notes into a conversation with Crow and ask it to organize them. Crow will:

1. Parse your notes into discrete items
2. Cluster related items by theme
3. Cross-reference with your existing projects and memories
4. Resolve contradictions or ambiguities by asking you
5. Organize the output however you prefer

Getting started

Just paste your notes and say something like:

"Here are my notes from today's meeting — organize these"

"Brain dump: [your notes]. Help me sort these into a plan"

"I have a bunch of ideas for the project. Here they are: [notes]"

Crow handles messy input — fragments, typos, mixed topics, even mixed languages.

Output options

After organizing your notes, Crow can:

• Distribute into projects — attach notes to existing Crow research projects
• Create new projects — spin up projects for new themes it identified
• Store in memory — save key decisions or context for future sessions
• Generate a plan — produce a structured, phased implementation plan
• Return a clean list — just give you the organized clusters without storing anything

You can combine these — for example, distribute some notes into projects and generate a plan for the rest.

Example

Input:

- need to fix the login bug
- maybe add dark mode?
- talk to Maria about the Q3 timeline
- dark mode should work on mobile too
- the API rate limit is too low for production
- Q3 deadline is July 15
- login bug might be related to the session token change from last week

Output:

Crow identifies three clusters:

1. Login bug (items 1, 7) — connected to prior session token work
2. Dark mode (items 2, 4) — new feature, needs mobile consideration
3. Q3 planning (items 3, 6) — deadline-sensitive, involves Maria

It then asks what you want to do: create tasks, store in a project, or generate a phased plan.

Tips

• For large brain dumps (20+ items), Crow shows you the clusters first before asking what to do
• If you've organized notes before, Crow remembers your preferred style
• Notes about people are cross-referenced with your contacts
• Time-sensitive items are flagged prominently