Or “thrifted objects and fantasy of the associated project” and “new shiny thing I found”.
Mm, this seems ADHD.
Slopcoding has made this so bad. But in the before time I was so burned out by work I couldn’t get myself to program at home so they all stayed in my head
Baking trays and a baking rack can help organize all of your smaller physical projects.
That’s a great new project
Hmm, anyone have any good ideas for storing the parts of an unfinished baking rack?
Not pictured: unfinished, abandoned projects
Those are the skeletons sitting in the chairs down on the seafloor.
Me opening my notepad to start a new song for the millionth time
Basically my game dev folder. I hit the Perforce free tier workspaces limit multiple times already.
I keep burning myself out with projects that sound great on paper, but take weeks to complete. Hosting my own Lemmy instance was one of those things. Was it fun? Kinda. Would I do it again? Hell no
It took you weeks to host your own lemmy instance?
No, hosting was the easy part. Setting up a proper firewall, SMTP and building a custom docker image however…
Ah yeah, SMTP is usually a bitch. I only had an instance for myself back when I used lemmy and never bothered with actually setting up the email part lmao.
Aren’t you using Lemmy now?
Honestly, I don’t think projects have to be finalized. Sometimes you just want to build or try something. I have aborted dozens of projects, from web interfaces to games and frameworks. Sometimes, you just want to build something, finish that and then realize the remaining part of the project is not interesting.
You learn something with everything you start. I don’t think finishing it is an obligation.
Just wanted to say the exact same thing.
Projects can be treated like games too. You had some fun, learned a bunch, challenged yourself, and when there’s only uninteresting stuff left; why bother?
You may ask what I was building with all of these unfinished projects.
The thing I was building was myself.
(alt: picture of Facebook’s mod report form, with “I’m in this photo and I don’t like it” selected)
Look, we’re all someone else’s unfinished project in a way
I’m actually on track to finally rework and finish off a twenty year old creative project by the end of the month! 🎉🎉🎉
One (almost) down, eight to go!
At this point I’ve given up doing things. Every new project is just a clutter-generating waste.
I’ve started joting ideas down on a markdown file in the Projects directory instead. Now to clean up my 500 browser tabs.
I tried notes for a while, just became more clutter.
Once even tried making a spreadsheet of unfinished projects, which also got added to itself
I just started using obsidian. It’s perfect for starting new projects because even when you don’t finish, you don’t have to completely restart.
Good notes are great, but only if you can find them. For half a year, my notes were just the date. It became an issue when I needed to remember a project I worked on in March but didn’t finish. Having links and screenshots and visually seeing relations between ideas has made it much easier to pause and come back later.
Its also got a bunch of excellent free community plugins that add more functionality, like drawings and data visualization. My personal favorite is called Iron Vault, it lets you run the really rather brilliant Ironsworn solo ttrpg system entirely in your notes with rolls and machanics being all taken care of inline
This is a symptom of bipolar disorder.
And ADHD, and just being busy
