i email myself ideas i have to gmail, then i put them in my running notes.txt file, where i mark them as 'idea: do this stupid thing so you can...', so i can se

i email myself ideas i have to gmail, then i put them in my running notes.txt file, where i mark them as 'idea: do this stupid thing so you can...', so i can search for 'idea' and find them easily when i have some time and figure out if i had ever thought of something interesting, and then i either do it at some point or don't. i have gone back and looked at them and somtimes picked one off. i've run into several problems over the years, including overbuilding-which-leads-to-never-building, even tho this is the first thing i would advise everyone to never do. :-D i feel like getting payments can be part of that, so my new new new strategy would be to build something interesting / that solves a pain / problem for someone, _then_ try to charge if it comes to that, but before that it's not worth trying to set up payments, etc. sounds obvious, but...