How to use the Idea sorting wall template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Idea sorting wall template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Idea sorting wall”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Move each idea into the one cluster that fits best. Then pick one idea from “Do now” and one from “Test first” to act on this week.”
Fill in each part
- Do now Cheap, clear and nobody objects.
- Test first Promising, but we’d be guessing. What’s the smallest test?
- Needs a decision Good idea that needs someone with authority to say yes.
- Big and later Worth it, but not this quarter.
- Not for us Ideas we’re saying no to, so they stop coming back.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Idea sorting wall board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Brainstorming: Ideas on sticky notes, written privately against a timer, clustered and dot-voted down to the few worth trying.

SCAMPER prompts
Seven ways to twist an existing product or process into new ideas: swap, combine, adapt, resize, repurpose, remove, reverse.
Borrowed ideas
Ask how other industries would solve your problem, then steal their best moves on purpose.
Idea to experiment
Turn one promising idea into a small, honest test: the belief behind it, the test, the signal to watch and the decision it informs.
Constraint brainstorm
Generate ideas under a deliberately harsh limit (no budget, one week, no screens) to shake loose solutions nobody had tried.
Attribute listing
Break a product into its attributes (size, material, price, how it is used) and change one attribute at a time to find new versions.
Idea scorecard
Score a long list of ideas on the same few criteria so the shortlist comes from the group’s judgement, not the loudest voice.