It's ok to have a ton of ideas and to let most of them go before you finish the work. The important part is that you document the idea so that you at least have

It's ok to have a ton of ideas and to let most of them go before you finish the work. The important part is that you document the idea so that you at least have the opportunity to return to it in the future. By this, I mean using pen and paper in some type of journal/notebook that you can browse through either when you are at the computer or away from it. You can get some great spiral bound drawing notebook at the grocery store for $5 or less. When you fill one up with ideas, label it with the date range and/or ideas and stick it on the shelf. In my experience, it's a lot easier to rediscover ideas when they're documented on paper than when they're typed in a text file somewhere.