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by BlueSlide 2471 days ago
Aside from the fact all of my side projects are currently abandoned (in search of wellness).

I use Trello, and have found organising ideas by value and difficulty has eased the burden of having 100+ side projects.

So.. I have multiple columns identifying which projects I will work on: "backlog", "will do", "won't do", "in progress", and "finished".

The "tickets" are also colour coded by difficulty: green - easy, orange - few days/week, red - few weeks/months.

Depending on how much time I think I will have free in the next few weeks, I pick a difficulty, and will only work on ONE project at a time (This is the only rule that stops me picking things up then abandoning it half way through).

I haven't been doing red projects in the past few months as they require more energy than I currently have, the green ones are the most fun, usually done in a night or a weekend, then I will not start another project until the next week to give myself a rest.