Hey everyone, design student here working on a project and I keep running into this one specific thing that I think a lot of people deal with.
You know when you are in the middle of a project, actually making progress, things are clicking but then you have to stop. Life happens, you take a break, maybe a few days pass. And when you come back it feels like you are starting from scratch even though you were literally just there.
That is what I am trying to understand better. Not the starting fresh part, everyone designs for that. The coming back part.
So my actual question is: what do you do when you sit back down at something you left mid-way? Do you have a system, even an informal one? Do you leave yourself notes and do they actually help or do you come back to "fix the thing" written in your own handwriting and have no idea what that means anymore? Like it looses context over time?
I am most curious about the times it went wrong. Where you came back and genuinely could not remember why you had made a decision, or what you were about to do next, or the whole vibe of where the project was heading.
Any field, any kind of project. Would love to hear what actually happens, not the polished productivity system version. Thankyou!