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Create your own templates and share them with others!

In Symphonical, each spreadsheet is a wall and the cells are replaced by notes which you post on the wall. A note is an information container where you can comment, upload files and much more.

The notes can be posted on the wall randomly, but you can also use the concept of views to structure, categorise, flip and view the same notes in many different ways.

Example:

TASK: Find good strategies for improving work collaboration within your company.

1. Get started!

Create a wall named "Ideas".

Start Brainstorming!

Invite others to participate.

Notes are posted randomly all over the wall.

Comment and upload files on each others notes.

2. Start categorising!

Create columns with values such as "To be used", "To be discussed" and "Rejected".

Move the ideas (notes) into the correct columns.

When categorising the notes, you realise that some are not really ideas, but rather activities connected to the idea:

Create new wall in the same room named "Activities".

Move activity notes from the "Ideas" wall to the new "Activities" wall.

You then realise some of the notes are neither Ideas nor Activities, but Tasks:

Create a third wall named "Tasks".

Move notes accordingly.

3. Following up Activities and Tasks

Create columns on these walls values such as "Not started", "In Progress" and "Finished".

Move notes accordingly.

You have now created a simple, powerful and easy process to brainstorm ideas and categorise them accordingly into activities and tasks. You also have full control of what needs to be completed to actually implement the strategy your company wants.

When you have created a room with different walls for different purposes (e.g., a wall for ideas, a wall for activities, a wall for tasks, and a wall for meetings), you can save the structure and/or the content (notes with files etc). The result is a Symphony which you can reuse later and share with your friends, colleagues or the whole Symphonical community.

When you are finished with the whole process you can save the process to be reused later. Also, you can share the process with friends, colleagues or the whole Symphonical community.

This was just one example of how you can improvise in Symphonical to get from A to Y by beginning with no process and boundaries and end up with a structured, but yet flexible process. This way of working is how you usually do it in your daily life. We call it Symphing!

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