The solo bottleneck
Ideas in Notes app graveyards never become experiments.
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Stack that stays small
One inbox DB + weekly review.
Tools named here: Notion, Apple Shortcuts, Todoist. Prefer official docs and native features before adding another SaaS.
Ship the automation
Single Idea Inbox (Notion or Todoist).
Phone share sheet / shortcut dumps text in under 5 seconds.
Friday: Keep / Kill / Schedule — empty the inbox.
Scheduled ideas get a one-hour experiment block.
Keep it honest
Capture is free; unfinished ideas are expensive. Kill aggressively.
Automations should reduce decisions and errors — not hide broken processes. If a Zap fails weekly, fix the process or delete the Zap.
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