THE IDEA SHELF / OPEN STARTING POINTS

Something worth making.

Fifty small project directions to help you get unstuck. Pick one, reshape it, or use it as a starting point for something better.

4 IDEAS13 TOPIC AREASSTART SMALL. ITERATE.
A PLACE TO BEGIN

Productivity

4 FOUND
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Async Handoff Notes

A template-driven page for handing a task to another person without a meeting.

THE PROBLEM

Work stalls when context lives in someone's head or across scattered chat messages.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Create a template with goal, current state, decisions, blockers, and next action.

handoffcollaborationdocs
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Local-First Bookmark Garden

A bookmark manager that works offline and organizes links by the reason you saved them.

THE PROBLEM

Browser bookmarks become a pile of URLs with no context and poor search.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Store URL, note, and tags in local storage, then add full-text filtering.

offlinebrowsersearch
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Project Scope Slicer

Break an oversized project idea into testable slices and explicit non-goals.

THE PROBLEM

Side projects stall because the first version is too large to finish.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Create a guided form for user outcome, smallest demo, risks, and exclusions.

planningscopeproject-management
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Research Session Organizer

Group tabs, notes, and quotes into a research session that can be resumed later.

THE PROBLEM

Research context disappears when browsers restart or projects change.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Save tab groups with notes and a plain Markdown export.

researchbrowsernotes
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