How I organize my project's todo list
I often find myself regularly having ideas about a new project and it's easy to get stuck in a infinite loop of
- Starting a project
- Thinking about an other new one
- starting this new project
- etc
There is numerous ways to avoid this trap and one of them I usually do is to NOT think too hard about this new shiny project for at least a week.
If this idea keep returning in my head, that mean I should take a closer look.
But taking a closer look doesn't mean abandoning the project I'm currently working on to start this new one. It means writing down what this idea should do, maybe with a list of functionality it shall have and that's it!
Then, I organize all those ideas into three distinct categories :
- Profitable
- Probably profitable
- Free / Open source
By doing this, I have a better view on which idea I should start next.
Moreover, having my idea written down help me forget about it, and bring me back to thinking about my current project. And often, when I go back to that list, I remove some ideas that seems useless after a certain time of thinking (or not thinking ;)).
And you, how do you manage your flow of ideas?
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by Cyril Nicodème
