Too Many Things
I recently found myself looking for a way to track my personal projects. I have too many ideas for stories, software, game systems, you name it. Some of them are even decent, I swear! The problem is, for as long as I can remember, I've struggled to finish any of them. I'll start them, make lots of progress, then either get distracted 50-70% of the way through by something else or realize there's some dependency for the current project that needs to be developed first and I'll move on to that, endlessly climbing down a chain of dependencies from which I cannot escape. And each time I move on to something new I forget all the context of the previous project*.
For the longest time I've managed most of my projects via Obsidian and before that applications like Joplin, Notion, Legend Keeper, or just in text files or on paper. But, because I'm terrible at information management, this just ended up creating lots of messy notes and even more inertia whenever I felt the urge to return to a former project.
And when I went looking for project management applications I mostly found Project Management Applications in capital letters. Tools for professional PMs, people with MBAs, applications built for teams, with schedules, gantt and burndown charts, and monthly subscriptions. These were tools that were way more than I need and probably anti-productive for my purposes. These are GIS systems when what I needed was a Compass.
So I made Waypoint. It's a simple project management tool, local only, built for a single user to manage projects without actually getting into all the fussy details of management. Something you can have open in the background, with lots of little features built for how I work. And to be clear, I built it for me so your milage may vary significantly. You can find out more and download a copy on the release page. It's an amateur's tool, built for desktop only (no mobile), with pretty low level tech, but it's been working for me. It helped me get this whole website done as well as a few other tools and apps I'll likely post soon.
If you use it, let me know what you think. I go by grimmway on that discordant chat app... and now I'm thinking I need to come up with some sort of contact system for this site. Guess I'll add another item to the backlog.
Oh, also I made this galaxy simulator toy thingy
*Did I mention I have an ADHD diagnoses?