Your smartphone isn’t just for making calls or keeping up with what’s going on in your social channels. It’s also a powerful creativity tool that can help you to increase your impact in your world. Here are 10 ways you can leverage your iPhone or Android phone as an awesome creativity tool:

1. Download brainstorming apps such as the iKnowBrainer or The Idea Generator to help you generate new ideas.

2. Use it to capture ideas, using Evernote or another note-taking app.

3. Capture your idea as an audio clip, and then e-mail it to yourself or your colleagues.

4. Shoot pictures and video clips of objects and scenes that inspire you, and then e-mail them to yourself.

5. Download an app such as SketchBook Mobile that enables you to draw simple sketches and diagrams on your smartphone. Use them to capture your thinking.

6. Organize your thoughts and ideas using a mind mapping app such as iThoughts or Mindjet.

7. Maintain a list of the problems you’d like to solve – so when you have some downtime, you can look at them and select one to think about.

8. Download a Kindle or other e-reader app and keep a small library of inspiring and educational books on your smartphone. You never know when an idea from one of these books will inspire your thinking! Better yet, why not download several books on creative problem-solving techniques, so you can carry an entire assortment of “tools” with you?

9. Set up searches in your Twitter and Google+ apps for topics of interest – especially those related to problems for which you seek a solution.

10. Set up a mastermind group and use texting and direct tweets to stay in close contact with each other, doing group problem solving and ideation.