Ideanote

Score9.1 out of 10

20 Reviews and Ratings

What is Ideanote?

Ideanote is an all-in-one innovation platform that promises to help teams and businesses around the world capture, develop, prioritize and act on more of the right ideas.

According to the vendor, key benefits include:

Capture ideas with structure by launching powerful goal-oriented idea collections in seconds.
Collaborate across teams with a streamlined process that makes sure you get the most out of every idea.
Grow your community with a scalable platform built to engage.
Measure your innovation by tracking engagement and the impact of your completed ideas.
Automate your innovation with integrations and workflows.

Ideanote offers a free plan and fair flat prices starting at just $12/mo.
Businesses of all sizes - from freelancers to enterprise - use Ideanote to innovate faster and better.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

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David Samuel 🚀View profile

Founder in Sales at Platinum Web Media (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Idea Brainstorming
Feedback from customers
Feedback from staff

Cons

The ability to have multiple CNAME's
Actually I am sure it can do this, it just cost extra
Perhaps a few more native integrations, although Zapier does the trick
Guys, please consider connecting with PABBLY connect also

Most Important Features

Coming up with new ideas
Executing those ideas
Putting ideas or feedback from staff or clients onto Roadmap

Return on Investment

Excellent ROI
Customers Love it
Staff Love it

Alternatives Considered

Slack

Other Software Used

Pipedrive, ACTIVE Camp, Basecamp

Nick Benson 🇿🇦View profile

Founder in Corporate at Rising Tribe (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Visualizes good ideas in the open. Doesn't compartmentalize them.
Demystifies the 'Innovation" process for everyone across the organization.
Focuses the team around a single mission, rather than just dumping ideas into a bucket.

Cons

Just dumping a user onto a page can be a bit jarring for some people. So more visual cues around what to do next would be great.
Having missions open and accessible to the public would be great - rather than being constrained by the number of "seats" an account has.
Individual comapny/department reporting/insights would be helpful, rather just a report on the Mission page.

Return on Investment

Ideanote has really be a great way to introduce small to medium sized companies to the practical side of what innovation is, and where to start.
It has driven up our ROI for small to medium sized companies purchasing our Design Sprints by 100%.
It is now a core service offering that we insist all clients use before engaging with us.

Alexandros Pagidas View profile

Founder in Research & Development at Seanius (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Excellent UI - clean and uncluttered. It paves your way rather than gets in your way.
Solid UX - each feature seem to guide but not push towards the desired outcome.
Versatility - the tool can be used for an endless variety of purposes.
Analytics - Ideanote not only helps you gather and rate ideas but it provides insight about who contribute the most in your company's creative process.
Ready made templates for common use cases help structure & direct the goals of your workspace quickly.

Cons

More videos in terms of tutorials and use cases.
Success stories of how companies used Ideanote to supercharge their innovation.
The new Zapier integration is a good step but I would like to see more native integrations with popular SaaS products.
Expensive - if not for finding it in an AppSumo deal it would have been hard to afford.

Return on Investment

I expect increased community engagement in product development
Higher morale among creative contributors since their contributions are now visible to everyone
Decreased risk in potential adoption of new features via the ability to assess enthusiasm around specific product development ideas before rollout

Other Software Used

Miro, Evernote, OmniGraffle

Steve Pinckney, MBA, PCC, CTPC, SPC5, PROSCI, PMP View profile

Agile Coach in Information Technology at Conceptia Ltd. (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Solicits input from a wide variety of users
Provides a structure workflow for the capture, evaluation and implementation of ideas
Provides a great visual of the status of ideas

Cons

The ability to add custom score calculations would be a powerful add for evaluating ideas

Return on Investment

Too soon to tell but I anticipate it will have a positive impact as we will finally have a single source of truth for ideas and the status of each.

Other Software Used

Collaboard

Suhail Ahmad

Founder and CEO in Corporate at Altdaq.com (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Easy onboarding of new users.
Simple to use.
Cloud based.

Cons

Pricing could be high if you have lots of users.
Awareness in the marketplace is low, we came across by accident.
More case studies or use cases could help users onboard quicker.

Return on Investment

Saved time for the team by allowing online collaboration.
Less meetings as team members can contribute at any time from anywhere.
Accelerated our sales and marketing efforts with idea generation and management.

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