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A tool to help focus on one idea at a time[Clicable prototype]

https://www.figma.com/proto/ZLKVWTl5Dr5akb0QO39qWoCb/Ideas?node-id=11%3A10&scaling=min-zoom

I have a huge issue, which is I have 10 ideas per week, and can't focus very long on each one, so I'm trying to make a tool to help me focus on one at a time.

All it is is a to-do list, with daily email reminders if something is left unchecked, I also plan to add more form inputs to collect more data(for example, emails of the 10 people that showed interest, and the one sale)

It will also include advice for which tools to use for each stage :)

The clickable prototype only has 10 slides, but you can get the gist of the idea.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks :D

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    I like the direction you're taking this. I currently fill up notebooks in Evernote with random ideas. I'm also not always great about organization. Reading your description and flipping through your prototype made me think how useful it would be to have some kind of structured storage of ideas. But, not just storage, but a way to track them, their state/status, level of validity, etc.

    I could totally see a web-based app that let me enter my ideas and interactively ask me questions like your prototype does and then daily/weekly/monthly emails me reminders or updates on my next steps. Perhaps links to helpful articles related to the step I'm on (or stuck on) for a particular project.

    You mentioned collecting the emails of the 10 people that showed interest. You could even use the app to facilitate sending the email and gauge their response (ie. include a link to a built-in form asking their opinion or more granular questions).

    Just the idea of logging into an interface that displayed my ideas and showed me their progress (maybe you could develop a score based on your metrics of validation) is really cool. I love being able to jot notes and ideas down in Evernote, but a notebook doesn't push me to take the idea further. A service like this could not only let me explore my ideas but proactively push me to develop them.

    I may be completely off on all this, but this is how I took your idea and I think it's great. Please, let me know if you develop this further as I'd be interested in using something like this.

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      You hit the nail right on the head! This is EXACTLY what I was thinking, with integrations to cool tools, maybe even exporting everything to google docs.

      The idea is to create accountability, I do it "manually" right now to some friends, but the questions are always the same, it's a framework that can definitely be used for 90% of ideas.

      If an idea fails, we could even add a field to explain why, and it's recorded for the future.

      Added some more elements to convey some more functionality

      Thanks for the input, Noah :)