So here’s an idea: keep a detailed record of your progress on the various projects that are constantly popping up in your free time, gaining and losing your fickle mind’s favor, drifting in and out of focus. Enumerate new ideas. Become at least vaguely accountable to an imaginary audience who are expecting some progress reports, dammit: what’s new with that “I Am Whiskey” bar exploration database, anyways? Just whatever happened to the Pac Man Parser? And are you going to spend a week in the studio this summer or what?
Thus, a version history for my ideas; a map, a placeholder, a set of snapshots of mental states. This will hopefully make it easier to be a resilient thinker — just follow the breadcrumb trail back and follow the other path if something doesn’t work out as expected.