How often do you use ChatGPT for brainstorming ideas?
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I’ve started using ChatGPT as a thinking partner more than a writing tool — for brainstorming, ranting, stress-testing ideas, even working through half-formed or intrusive thoughts.
Sometimes it agrees and helps articulate something clearly. Sometimes it pushes back and forces me to refine or soften a take. Either way, the output is often surprisingly thoughtful.
What I’ve noticed is that a lot of this thinking just stays private and disappears. I’m curious how others use ChatGPT: do you treat it as a scratchpad, a critic, a co-writer, or something else?
Also curious — do you ever feel like insights from these conversations are “worth sharing”, or do they feel too raw / personal / context-specific?
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Yep, I use it every so often to get different angles on my thoughts, basically using it to think further 'outside the box'.
Has been quite useful a few times, helped me see things from angles I wouldn't have thought of myself or different approaches to problems.
Mudrex
@jxywilliams This is exactly why I built ThinkInPublic.
I realized I was using ChatGPT the same way — as a thinking partner, critic, and stress-test for half-formed ideas. Some conversations were raw or personal, sure, but many had genuinely solid insights buried inside them… and they’d just disappear.
ThinkInPublic is basically the missing step: take a conversation or rough draft, clean it up into a coherent, readable post, and decide what’s worth sharing vs what stays private.
Not everything should be public — but a surprising amount becomes valuable once it’s structured.