For every new project idea, I open a file and start writing everything that comes to mind. A design document if you will. Writing stuff down like this makes thi

For every new project idea, I open a file and start writing everything that comes to mind. A design document if you will. Writing stuff down like this makes things obvious and tangible, easy to juxtapose, as you say, easy to manipulate. I can't count how often that document is the last thing that I do on a project, because I just can't make it work even on the paper, where ideas are cheap to sketch out.