Honestly, if anything I'm trying to do is sufficiently complex, I reach for pen and paper and use drawings, abstract ideas to have a better idea of what I'm goi

Honestly, if anything I'm trying to do is sufficiently complex, I reach for pen and paper and use drawings, abstract ideas to have a better idea of what I'm going to code. Actually, this way you catch a lot of poor design decisions that you would otherwise fall into. If starting out with code, I might attempt to "fix" poor design through hacks due to the "sunk time fallacy" of code already written, that kinda works, but isn't maintainable. Honestly, no "tool" on a computer would let me print my imagination as easily as pen and paper. Perhaps a drawing tablet, but that's an additional thing I would need to plug into my PC.