I want to do too many things, and my head gets cluttered. It is a problem I have written about more than once in this series. App ideas, the blog, publishing. They keep arriving, and after a while I cannot tell which one to pick up first.
Today I sat down with AI and hammered all of it into a single sheet.
There were about thirty “I want to” items in my head
When I actually wrote them out, the app concepts alone came to more than twenty. Add the blog work and the publishing plans on top of that, and it was close to thirty.
Even I thought that was a lot.
With that many, each one looks interesting on its own, but as a whole you lose the answer to the only question that matters: so which one am I actually going to do?
I had been keeping a plan sheet with everything lined up on it for a while. The trouble is that a list is only a list. The priorities stayed blurry, and every time I opened the file I hesitated again.
So today I decided to grow that sheet, with my AI partner Kuro (Claude), into a table I could actually make decisions from.
Kuro put it like this.
Just lining them up doesn’t show you which one is the real contender. So let’s add the information you need in order to decide, right alongside each idea. Then you can tell where to start just by looking at the table.
What I added: competition, revenue, and where the files live
There were three new pieces of information that went into the sheet today.
The first is how much competition there is. For each idea, AI searched the internet for similar apps and services and rated it as high, medium, or low. Is this a field already packed with rivals, or is there a gap? Being able to see that at a glance tells me where it is worth putting my effort.
The second is the revenue model. How would this idea actually turn into money? Ads? Affiliate links? A monthly subscription? Or is it something that will not earn directly at all, but builds a track record I can point to later? Writing one short line for each of them meant I could suddenly sort the whole sheet by how likely it is to earn.
The third is where the files are saved. This one is unglamorous, but it turned out to matter more than I expected. I am forever forgetting which folder a half-finished file is sitting in. With a note in the table, the “wait, where did I put that?” moment disappears.
Color coding made it easier to look at
I did not stop at adding information. I tidied up the appearance too.
Colors by priority, and colors by field, so that a quick glance tells me this one is an app, that one is the blog. I also had the text inside the cells wrap, so nothing gets cut off and everything is readable.
Fiddly little adjustments like that are exactly the sort of thing AI handles in no time. I just say what I want it to look like, and it is done.
A table isn’t finished the moment you make it. It only becomes a tool you can use once it’s easy to read and you actually want to come back to it.
When it fits on one sheet, your head goes quiet
What I felt most, once everything was on a single sheet, was how quiet my head became.
Until then, thirty ideas had been buzzing around inside it the whole time. Now they had a place to sit. That turned into a kind of relief: I am allowed to forget them, because I can look at them again whenever I want.
The ideas with little competition and a plausible way to earn floated up on their own as the real contenders.
And the ones surrounded by rivals, with nothing but ad revenue behind them, I could finally look at calmly and think: even if this one lands, it is pocket money.
If you have too many things you want to do
Too many wants, and so you cannot move. If that sounds like you, I would recommend building a “sheet for deciding” together with AI.
Not to delete ideas. To start moving without hesitating.
The more the table grows, the easier it gets to see the next move. Today was the day I felt that for myself.
If you want the earlier part of this story, it is in taking stock of every idea in my head with AI. And for what happens when the sheet tells you to hold off, see deciding not to build it yet.
