Recently I started writing out all my ideas and designs of personal coding projects in a notebook of graph paper. It's pretty incredible how I can see and think

Recently I started writing out all my ideas and designs of personal coding projects in a notebook of graph paper. It's pretty incredible how I can see and think about high level things (like general architecture) much more easily than if I'm in front of a screen staring at code or a project template. The cycle of thinking, building it out until you reach the next tier of work, and then stopping to think again is a lot more efficient in the long term than continuously solving the next problem without having a concrete target direction. One of these days I'll start seriously building my Graph Paper Markup Language processor, which will use scanned notebook pages with special symbols recognized by OCR to automatically tag and add dates to my notes. It's all sketched out already.