Brainstorming new ideas is a starting point of research. When you are doing brainstorming, it is a good idea to write down and organize your thought since it helps you (1) make your thought clear and concrete; (2) develop your idea; (3) keep track of ideas; and (4) share ideas with collaborators. We recommend you to use Google slide to organize your research ideas.

Each idea can be written in 1-2 slides and it includes following components:

• Problem statement: If it is an existing problem, you can simply describe them. However, when you tackle a new problem, it is often very hard to concretize and define the problem you are tackling. What are the exact scenarios you want to set up? What are the expected input and output of your problem?
• Motivation: Why is the problem interesting and important for anyone? This is more important when the project is about a new problem.
• Expected contribution: You need to point out clearly what your contribution is. You should know yourself and let others know what your contribution is -- in other words, which parts do you want to emphasize? Is it about defining a new exciting problem, proposing a novel/fundamental technique, and/or undergoing deep analysis?
• Potential approach or baseline: While it's always nice to solve ambitious problems, one often needs to make sure your project is tractable in some sense. Here is where coming up with a potential approach or baseline would help.
• Related work: What are related to solve this problem? and why these methods are struggling or cannot solve the the proposed problem?

The following slide is an example: