[marginalia_nu]

At least with me, externalizing the ideas, having literally any process helps focus so much.

Whenever I get a cool idea, big or small, I write it on a post-it and put it on a wall, then I can have faith that it is still there after I've finished what I'm doing. This is on a feature level, but some of them are ambitious multi-week things.

I think at least for me, the more I work the more ideas I have, and the more difficult it becomes to focus on finishing something that isn't very fun. If I can trust they still exist later, that isn't so much of an obstacle, but an asset, and I can finish drawing the owl in peace.

Having a battery of ideas ready to go also means sometimes I can often be extremely productive, and finish like 5-6 features in a few hours. Usually when I get stuck and end up procrastinating, it's because I don't know what to do next. The wall-of-ideas solves that.

It's like zero planning scrum. YMMV, but I've found it incredibly effective.