Serendipity: the germ.io blog

[...] automagically organized genius on screen. But how deep does the rabbit hole go? We built Flow Maps in germ so you could go as far deep into your ideas as you possibly wanted without getting lost. [...]

[...] anymore. So how do you really take the first step to solving the problem? You could apply the Mammoth Model in germ.io to break down your big problem into smaller, more tangible next steps. But then, [...]

[...] data you have? If you read through the works of some of the most convincing story tellers like Steve Jobs, Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin and Dan Brown, you’ll start noticing some patterns. The most [...]

[...] to rip apart your idea piece by piece, and build it over. There’s this anecdote about how Steve Jobs dumped the first prototype of the iPod into a fish tank and showed air bubbles popping out to [...]

Marketing pitches, sales decks, new product ideas, initiatives in architecture, design and even when it comes to buying a new coffee machine – prese [...]

[...] So it’s been a month since we threw a first germ on the petridish with germ Omega. If you got in late to the party, the Omega is our pre-beta, pre-alpha, pre-adolescence launch [...]

[...] to Lesson 3. Lesson 3: Users are NOT kind forgiving monks When we decided to launch germ Omega, we debated tooth and nail about whether it’s fair to “annoy” users with a [...]

[...] in love with it. Quick Recap of the Mammoth Model Before I start singing the beauty of the MECE Technique, let’s just run a quick recap of the Mammoth Model. The Mammoth Model in germ.io is what [...]

[...] and glorified to-dos, we need to draw our lines on what germ.io is not. germ.io is not a task management tool. We are not building a software that will remind you to get milk and diapers on the way [...]

[...] done? Why are we trying to build a product that starts with your ideas? Why does every task management tool out there suck so bad, when you actually start getting creative? Because at the end of the [...]