Use Trello to rapidly organize notes into tasks. Create a new team using the same name as your notebook, and a board called Product Backlog with three lists; Ideas, MVP and Sprint 1. Turn each bullet point or paragraph into a task under the Ideas list (combining when necessary). Use descriptive titles in the form of user stories and write as detailed of descriptions as you can. The more time you spend here, the easier you’ll make it on yourself in the long run.

After your notes are in, look over the Ideas list and on each ticket ask yourself “What is the absolute, bare minimum, needed to test my product?” And by bare minimum, I mean no design, just basic UI, and logic. Move these tickets to the MVP list and sort based on the order of execution. It’s ok if not all your tasks make it in this first round. You want to save those tasks, move them to your Sprint 1 list, or leave them in Ideas for when you’re ready to iterate again.

You should have a pretty thorough list of features for an MVP. To manage your state in the project, you’ll need to take one more step. Move your MVP list to an MVP board, rename the list to To Do and add two new ones; Doing, and Done.

With these three columns (and moving your tickets accordingly) you can keep track of what you’re working on, what you’ve done and what you’re doing next. Now, when you dip into a project after a few days you’ve offset the cognitive load of figuring out where the hell you left off and can tap back into that new idea energy.