Guide
How to use AI for idea generation
Ideas don't come from nowhere. They come from connecting things that haven't been connected yet. AI speeds up the connecting.
Capture everything, connect later
The worst thing you can do to an idea is judge it too early. Capture rough thoughts, half-baked concepts, and random observations. AI links them later when the pattern becomes clear.
Let AI surface unexpected links
You connected idea A and idea B. AI can surface that both also connect to idea C, which you'd forgotten about. These bridge connections are where original thinking comes from.
The weekly idea review
A weekly briefing that shows you what you've been thinking about — themes, repeated concepts, dangling threads — turns scattered captures into a creative workspace.
From idea to execution
When an idea matures, promote it to a project. Your second brain already has the context, research, and related captures ready. The transition from idea to action is frictionless.
Put this into practice
tentus makes it practical. Capture, connect, and retrieve with Lumi working in the background.
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