Mind Gem – Capturing Thoughts Before They Disappear

Ideas don't always come during meetings. They show up over coffee. Between tasks. Or right after closing the laptop.

But most of them disappear. Lost to chats, left behind in passing thoughts, or never voiced at all.

I wanted to change that. Not with a tool, but with a gesture. So I created something called a “Mind Gem” — a new work item type in DevOps. No effort to configure. Just a name, an icon, and a status like “Let’s Talk.”

It’s not a system. It’s a signal. A place that says: it’s okay to think out loud.

By giving those loose thoughts a place, we give them a chance to grow. And if they grow, they might just shape the solution — long before we start building anything.