I just have a text based notes file for each project that informally keeps track of everything in a pretty unorganized way. I'm a big believer of keeping old t

I just have a text based notes file for each project that informally keeps track of everything in a pretty unorganized way. I'm a big believer of keeping old text around too, so I don't delete things after I finish them because that added context for later usually helps a lot. I use this to actively juggle 5-6 freelance gigs and a bunch of personal projects. I find it really easy to jump into any of those projects and get up to speed quickly. In general I keep "busy work" to a minimum. Often times I would rather get into the code and even add pseudo code comments or TODOs instead of kanban boards and other things. For project planning (pre-single line of code) I just brain dump stuff into a text file and go from there. I once live recorded myself doing this for a project a while back at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/live-demo-of-planning-a-real-world-web-application-from-scratch https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/live-demo-of-planning-a-real-.... I also like that my notes file is local instead of an external service. It lets me jump between that and my code very quickly since I can use my code editor to interact with it.