First: +1 for asking for examples!

The 'ideas' can range from fairly vague;

• 'find 'some way to stop using games on phone as a distraction'

to more specific;

• 'nail down a GTD system, focusing on ease of modification in response to strategics reviews',

• 'integrate all my uses of to-do and time-planning software into a single tool/piece of software".

(other examples:

• 'find some way to store meta ideas and increase them',

• 'Find a reliable [I've had problems with blockers being too easy to circumvent, I don't want to screw around with deeper modifications to OS etc and I'm often on university computers anyway] way to stop myself using facebook at certain times/days')

The point there is just to keep thinking about "what can be done to improve" and to encourage writing down 'clever ideas' that have no obvious next-action.

'Formal Implementations' are more like "this is exactly what I'm going to do/try":

• 'use backup-to-computer app and software to store savedata, then uninstall games' [this is the only one so far where I fulfilled the idea but not the F.I - I couldn't get backup apps to work, and I ended up uninstalling without concern for savegame data],

• 'Use an ical port to get all my uni timetable data into Gcal and use Google's text message reminders to duplicate the fact that I'd moderately trained myself to pay attention to that style of reminder. Copy important lists into Gcal, experiment with Gcal's todos, and set aside time to copy important data from other services.'

  (the FI versions of other examples:

• "Use separate Trello lists to represent levels of precision and integrate with beeminder",

• "Get a friend to create half of my facebook password [half to prevent them having access], give them instructions on when I can use it, [starting with when I ask and ramping up if that doesn't work] and turn on email notifications of anything I need to keep track of").

Also, implementations always have a next-action associated with them. (for example:

• copying savedata - locate in filesystem, [didn't work: maybe backup apps?]

• Look for beeminder integration that can work like notes.

• (Fix problem with FB access if I ask a friend to help, figure out whether cutting facebook semi-permanently is worth it - use Goal Discernment [my alternative name for Goal Factoring. I already had a cognitive tool that I'd called 'Factoring', and I didn't want the work of switching my mental habits])

Sometimes the next actions lead to a modification of the implementation rather than a result, which is fine, and sometimes they lead to doing something that doesn't fully satisfy the implementation/idea, but I record those also (like for the facebook - I haven't actually done it yet because I'm not sure if it's too radical, but I quit all the facebook debate groups I frequented.)

The trello in question is here, although not all of the info is on there - next actions and problem specifications I still keep in my head (somehting to change? the NAs anyway).