I find them situationally very useful. I'm very much an on-again-off-again todo:er, depending on what life throws my way. If I have enough ideas to require them I'll use them, if I don't then I don't. I don't spend a lot of time making sure they're in some sense perfect, it's just a tool, if it gets the job done it's fine. If there's too much junk, I'll delete some of it.
If I'm inspired I may have many more ideas than I have time to realistically implement. Putting them in a todo list helps me let go of them until I have the time to put them into action.
I also believe in separating thinking from doing, spending time away from my projects thinking seems to consistently produce solid new takes, but that is rarely the case if I'm actually at the keyboard working. I get too much tunnel vision and just spin my wheels.
This in part also to allow me to be a present in my relationships, to work at work. If I had to juggle all my ideas in my head, I'd be aloof and incommunicable most of the time.
If I'm inspired I may have many more ideas than I have time to realistically implement. Putting them in a todo list helps me let go of them until I have the time to put them into action.
I also believe in separating thinking from doing, spending time away from my projects thinking seems to consistently produce solid new takes, but that is rarely the case if I'm actually at the keyboard working. I get too much tunnel vision and just spin my wheels.
This in part also to allow me to be a present in my relationships, to work at work. If I had to juggle all my ideas in my head, I'd be aloof and incommunicable most of the time.