Complete list of idea management features

Ideanote is the ultimate innovation-led growth platform with everything you need to take your innovation to the next level.

Below you can find a comprehensive list of all features included in Ideanote.

Collect

Ideas

Ideanote was born to make ideas matter. Collect an unlimited number of valuable ideas in your idea collections on any of our plans.

Idea Collections

Collect ideas from any audience with goal-driven idea collections that help you focus your innovation and uncover opportunities.

Idea Widget

Embed idea collections in your app or website to create custom innovation experiences that delight your audience.

Shareable Links

Generate shareable links that give instant access to your workspace, a team or a specific idea collection — a completely hassle-free way to innovate.

Idea Collection Details

Attach a description, files or videos to your idea collections to give people context - how about a video of the CFO asking for cost-saving ideas?

Cover Images

Tell a story by uploading custom cover images for your idea collections - or choose from over 2 million free images right within Ideanote.

Video Field

Let people upload or record videos from right within the app. Support and automatic compression for common file formats including MP4, MOV, MPEG, MP3,

Autosave

Don't worry when you ran out of battery, closed the browser or just needed a break, drafts are autosaved in the background so you can jump back in.

Idea Collection Templates

Kickstart your innovation with useful idea collection templates for collecting ideas for new or better products, services or processes.

Attachment Field

A video or file can be worth a thousand words. Let people submit links, videos or attachments as part of their ideas and boost your idea quality.

Custom Fields

Build your own idea submission forms with custom fields like dropdowns, sliders, attachment fields and more.

Anonymity

Give people the option to stay fully or partly anonymous when submitting ideas.

Deadline

Schedule a deadline for idea submissions to create urgency and plan ahead with important idea collections.

Engage

Guests

Invite unlimited external stakeholders for free by letting them join quickly and easily as guest users.

Admins

Delegate your innovation strategy by giving people admin rights so they can manage idea collections, people and workspace settings.

Teams

Team folders help you add the right structure to your innovation. Group idea collections and people an create ownership.

Team Owners

Delegate team ownership to others and let them manage idea collections, people and ideas within their own area of responsibility.

Members

Members can use SSO, be part of Teams, given specific access and have their own profile page.

Mention

Loop experts and stakeholders into the conversation with easy tagging of people in the conversation so the right people stay involved.

Assigning

Ideanote lets you assign people to ideas as part of the process to make sure they move forward. You decide who can assign people and when.

Comments

Develop ideas and gather feedback with co-workers, guests or customers with fine grained control over visibility and who can comment when and where.

Likes

Engage your people with likeable ideas — and let the crowd vote on their favorites. Doesn't "Someone liked your idea" sound like a great notification?

Personal Bio

Let people express themselves on their profile with a short tagline their work role or skills. It is engaging to see who is behind an idea.

Activity Feed

Let people explore a feed showing the latest activity from across your workspace and build a feeling of community and a place to get inspired.

Member Profiles

Every member gets their own profile to manage ideas, see their progress and customize settings. Research shows - ownership raises engagement levels.

Real-Time Notifications

Ideanote notifications keep you informed about things that need your attention, across your devices. A great way to keep people in the loop.

Email Notifications

Get daily, weekly or monthly summary emails right to your inbox that keep you and your peers informed on what is new in your hub for ideas.

Personal Invite Messages

Need to tell people why you are inviting them to a mission? Sending a personal message with your email invite is built in — so people know what to do.

Invite via .CSV

The easiest way to invite a large group of people in bulk on Ideanote is to upload a .CSV file with a list of all the people you want to add.

Browser Compatibility

Ideanote works on all modern web browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and even the beloved enterprise-classic Internet Explorer.

Public Access

Open up your workspace to clients, customers or the entire internet and start harvesting ideas from outside the box.

Windows and macOS App

Ideanote is available as fully fledged Progressive Web App (PWA) for your desktop — ready to be installed on your Windows and Mac devices.

Mobile Device Innovation

Engage people on their mobile devices — wherever they are. Ideanote's PWA (Progressive Web App) is completely mobile optimized for users and admins.

Immediate Scaling

Your site will be snappy for the first or millionth concurrent visitor. Don't worry about getting popular overnight.

Custom Branding

You can easily customize Ideanote's style to suit your brand. You can add your own logo, choose a background color, action color and more.

Custom Domain

Besides a workspace on ideanote.io you can also add your own custom domain — why not a home for ideas at ideas.mycompany.com?

Custom Fonts

Customize your workspace to fit your brand with a selection of 1000+ Google Fonts, from playful to toned down.

Custom Meta Tags

Customize social meta tags and social preview images for Twitter, Google, Facebook, Slack & more

Automatic Translation

Identify similar ideas and innovate across markets and languages with automatic on-demand translation of ideas right in the platform.

Bottom-Up Innovation

You decide if admins, team owners or all members can launch idea collections — empower your people and unleash bottom-up innovation.

Workspace Grid

Create multiple workspaces to segregate data between clients or departments and manage them centrally.

Multi-Language

Engage people with a platform in their own language — 24+ languages including FR, DE, CZ, RU, HU, IT, ES, FI, NL, KR, JP, CN, TH, VN, DA, SE, NO, HR

Microsoft Teams Integration

Collect employee ideas right inside of Microsoft Teams with Ideanote's Idea Management app.

Manage

Card View

Browse cards in a casual card view — perfect for letting members or guests explore ideas at their own pace.

Column View

Add a Column View to get a visual overview of where ideas are on their journey - and move them across phases.

Sorting

Sort ideas by their rating, creation data and more to quickly find the ideas that matter.

Search

Never loose another idea. Ideanote's search functionality lets you find ideas across your idea collections with ease and flexibility.

Custom Audience

Target and segment your crowd and experts to control who can can comment, evaluate or add ideas in each phase of the process.

Custom Phases

Create custom phases in your idea collections for your ideas to travel through so you always have a process in place for your ideas.

Drag & Drop

Manage ideas like a pro with easy drag and drop of ideas between phases. Now you can move idea forward, literally.

Custom Filters

Advanced idea filtering with a simplified experience — custom filters offer flexibility and precision, powered by boolean operators.

Custom Ratings

Rate ideas on their impact, confidence, ease or any other custom scale you define.

Hidden Ideas

Hide ideas and activities from prying eyes in a specific phase or across an entire idea collection while still allowing the right people access.

Cluster View

Deep dive into topics and find trends and similar ideas with the cluster view - available for browser ideas across the workspace and idea collections

List View

Manage ideas in one beautiful, powerful, searchable, filterable, sortable list with customizable columns and quick actions.

Custom Views

Visualize your innovation with custom views. View ideas as cards, lists, clusters or charts and save custom views for perfect overview.

Idea Linking

Identify and link similar ideas with the help of Ideanote's smart AI and idea linking. Even thousands of ideas can become collective insights.

Weighted Ratings

Decide which evaluation criterion is most important ('cost' for example) by adjusting the weight given to each criteria

Measure

Insights

Visualize engagement, measure how your team is performing, and identify top innovators. So you can celebrate your successes, innovate smart and fast.

Idea Map

Showcase how many ideas you've collected around the world with an impressive world map that shows the top locations of submitted ideas.

Visual Funnel

Experience a real-time overview of ideas moving through the collaboration phases to view the status of your innovation and your funnel.

Leaderboard

Rank users and teams by how many contributions they have made and get an overview of your top performers.

Custom Date Range

Custom date range allows you to filter your Ideanote insights data by a specific time period. Just chose two dates or suggestions like "This Week".

Custom Status

Set up custom impact tracking to measure your success — so you always know how many ideas are implemented or archived and for what reason.

ROI Analytics

Track how many ideas you implement from day one and for what reason. With ROI impact tracking you can prove your innovation works.

Engagement Insights

With engagement insights you will have access to a set of charts that show you how many people have commented, added and liked ideas.

Trend Analysis

Instantly discover trends and topics with Ideanote's inbuilt wordcloud and natural language processing artificial intelligence.

.XLSX Export

Hassle-free export of any idea collection and insights data as excel .XLSX — how you want and as often as you want. Monthly, weekly or daily.

Automate

Integrations

Ideanote seamlessly connects with over 1000+ other tools so you can get even more out your innovation and build time-saving custom workflows.

Custom Embed

Embed Ideanote externally with flexible support for everything from launching widgets at the click of a button to crating "iframes" of new ideas.

Zapier

Connect with thousands of apps to create workflows, import, and export data with Zapier.

Google Tag Manager

Add custom CSS, HTML or Javascript via Google Tag Manager. From event tracking to styling to third-party code, you can add custom code with ease.

Google Analytics

Connect Ideanote with you existing Google Analytics and track events such as new ideas, comment or like with fine-grained control along other data.

Custom Code

Ideanote lets you customize parts of the platform with custom code. Change the design, add tracking or additional layers like a chat app.

Bulk Actions

Do you have a few changes that apply to a bunch of ideas? No need to do it one at a time — just apply actions like delete, move on many ideas at once.

AI Duplicate Matching

Identify similar ideas with the power of natural language processing across languages - never build the same thing twice and explore trends with ease.

API Access

The Ideanote REST API is built on GraphQL and allows external applications to retrieve and edit data from the Ideanote innovation-led growth platform.

Automations

Run 100 to Unlimited automations a month (depending on your plan) to outsource repetitive tasks via integrations, triggers, actions and bulk actions.

AI Suggestions

Ideanote comes with a powerful AI that lets you generate ideas for any of your idea collections.

Support

Free Trial

Just click "Try free" to start your free a fully-featured 5-day trial of Ideanote.

Cancel Anytime

With Ideanote you are not bound to you plan. You can upgrade, downgrade and cancel anytime. No minimum contract length or extra fees.

No Credit Card Required

We will not ask you for your credit card to start your trial and we will not charge you automatically at the end of the trial - unless you upgrade.

In-App Onboarding

Start implementing best practice innovation-led growth by following helpful guides and checklist right in the Ideanote platform.

Help Center

Find answers quickly across a searchable selection of useful help center articles. Tips, guides, and industry best practices for your innovation.

Helpchat

Got a question? Just ping us in the help chat in the bottom right — Ideanote is there for you 24/5 on any pricing plan. Let's make ideas matter.

Success Manager

Our Customer Success Manager makes sure your organization gets the best possible results out of Ideanote.

Priority Support

Get personalized priority assistance from the Ideanote support team and support engineers 24/5. So you can focus on rolling out your innovation.

Custom Features

Ideanote gives your company the power to build the best innovation experiences - build on top of our flexible platform or build a solution with us.

Training and Onboarding

Receive hands-on best practice training and onboarding for your team of administrators and stakeholders.

Security

Google OAuth

Easily enable single sign-on with your existing Google G Suite login using Oauth — either via your G Suite SAML or via Google's Direct Sign In.

Encryption in Transit

Ideanote enforces HTTPS and TLS 1.3 to ensure data is encrypted in transit. Ideanote uses NIST Suite B compliant RSA Encryption with SHA-256.

Encryption at Rest

All ideas stored in Ideanote are encrypted at the storage level using AES256 at rest. Data is split into chunks and each encrypted with a unique key.

Free SSL

When using Ideanote with your own custom domain, Ideanote provides a free SSL certificate so you can keep your site secure and your SEO optimized.

Two-Factor Auth

Ideanote supports ultra secure two-factor authentication with SMS, Fido Keys or authenticator apps via your company Single Sign-On.

Automatic Backups

Ideanote automatically creates backups of your data so your valuable ideas don't get lost. Reach out to our customer support for restoring data.

JWT Authentication

Use JSON Web Token (JWT) to authenticate people, for example for direct login via a Sharepoint intranet link and custom built solutions.

Single Sign-On

Ideanote supports your Active Directory (AD)-based SAML SSO for fast and secure authentication of your users with their existing login.

Multiple ADs

Enable multiple authentication methods for your workspace and allow or prevent people from logging in with other authentication methods.

Audit Log

Use the Audit Log to stay compliant and search the unified audit log to view user and administrator activity in your workspace.

Try

No matter if you are looking to run a small project, a pilot or a full rollout to the entire organization, we’ve got your back.

Choosing a platform can be a daunting task. Your decision will have an impact on how simple, engaging and efficient innovation will be run in your organization. So it’s even more important to find a platform that’s a good fit and to get comfortable using it before you decide on a roll-out.

Just follow our simple and transparent process and implement at the right scale.

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1. Give it a spin.

Do you even like Ideanote? Give it a spin to see if it feels right. It only takes 2 minutes to sign up and publish your first idea collection. No credit card required. All features ready for testing.

Create a free account >

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2. Get a personal walkthrough.

So you liked our platform? Great! But will it work in practice?

Put it to the real-life test by getting your own custom-tailored Ideanote platform that matches your vision and your brand. Get all you questions answered and take the next steps on your journey, faster and with more clarity.

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2. Have a look around.

This is the innovation equivalent of “we should see other people”.

Why? Because we want you to be happy with your choice.

Putting yourself out there to see what’s available is a great way to make sure you end up with the best solution for you. We love our customers and they love us - that kind of relationship is built on trust so when you collect ideas with Ideanote, we want you to do it for the right reasons.

So get out there and date some other service providers. We’ll even give you a few recommendations for some of our favorite competitors who also do innovation management really well.

Check out the G2 market report >

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