← The stack
FROM THE BOOK · DON'T BUILD EVERYTHING
Idea Parking List
Ideas make you start things because they rattle around your head demanding attention. The cheaper way to quiet the rattle: capture it here, in enough detail that future-you can pick it up, and close the laptop.
Make capture the lazy option and you have won. A captured idea is not a dead idea. It is a safe one.
Runs in your browser · what you type stays on your machine
Capture one now
The idea, in a line
Every angle, quickly
Nothing parked yet. That, or everything's currently a browser tab.
The graveyard rule
A thing that is eighty percent done does not earn eighty percent of the money. It earns nothing. Most of your twenty ideas are not for now. Some are for never. One, maybe, is for this week. Find that one and ignore the rest until it is actually finished.