I'm constantly thinking about new stuff I want to build. This chain of thoughts sometimes are branches of other thoughts, and sometimes are totally different branches. My mind never ceases. Even when I'm with no energy in my bed, I keep having ideas. For example, yesterday I started to think about a farm simulator in VR/MR with gods view/table top mode. I then spend sometime designing it with the help of chatgpt. It is exhausting. I know I will die and I wont have enought time to build everything I think. Maybe Im ADHD? Is there anybody here that is like that is was diagnosed with ADHD?
I have OCD (not severely, but noticeable amount), but the way I deal with overflowing ideas…
- Dubstep/ DnB cranked up to max
- Wet my throat with my fav drink
- Make sure i have dry roasted peanuts (KP)
- Code the crap out of one of them!
One time I did this - built the only ever ZWave node for node red you will ever need! 
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Hence my mindmap - I write down all my ideas and those that stick get down.
Getting them out my head by writing them down helps me. Unfortunately I'm what's known as a "thought hoarder" - as others hoard things, I have to hoard my thoughts. Else I get nervous and can't concentrate.
I also use a dictation device (ferrite on iPhone is great!) to speak my ideas when I don't have a keyboard, pen or paper in the vicinity. I used to worry about quality - spending hours correct text or reword stuff. Now I just dump and run - somewhere into my mindmap (never to be found again) and done.
The good thing is that by writing down ideas, I often comeback to them when - much later - another ideas pops up and suddenly the first idea becomes doable. That's the subconscious doing the work btw.
I do this when I'm working, when I'm sleeping, when I'm eating - I have a signal chat with myself to sync ideas between devices and to note ideas when I can't speak, i.e., public place.
To organise my ideas when I work, I imagine a stack & push ideas on top and then pop them off again. I.e., bugs that pop up in the middle of creating a new node which is itself an fix for something else but actually all I wanted to do was write that one text before starting the day with a that fix from last night ....
That's a typical morning for me.
I actually came to this browser window to check something in Node-RED ... which I'll now do!
EDIT: I also have point out that I spend hours listening to music, yesterday it was avant-garde - 426 songs of early Electroacoustic Music today it's some lava-lamp techno, some times classic and most times eclectic.
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Hi Allan, welcome to the club! I suspect a lot of us in this forum "suffer" in the same way.
I use various to-do lists and knowledge bases. Like Einstein, I believe in writing down everything and letting it stew in the background.
My wife and daughter (who know far more about ADHD than I do) both tell me that I have it - in mild form. In addition, though undiagnosed, I am certainly on the Autistic Spectrum (again, not that far down but I certainly recognise elements of it in my actions and thinking).
I am an inveterate list maker, so you will find massive lists in my roadmaps which is how I record things for my developing projects. I will occasionally trawl through those lists and re-order and rationalise them.
Yup, same here. But of course, those ideas are stewing away in the back of my mind. It is amazing how often I will wake up with a clarified direction. 
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I'm a firm believer in the subconscious - all these life hacks about have the best ideas come under the shower, it's all the subconscious (Aside: "unconscious" is the terminology in professional circles because subconscious is seen as degrading for something that is on par with the conscious.)
What is the unconscious? Pick up a glass/cup and drink from it. Now consider what controlled the muscles to make that happen? What controlled the muscles to ensure that the liquid went to the stomach and not the lungs? It is estimated that the unconscious is 60 to 80 percent of the brain - so imagine actively using that to solve problems - instead of the 20 to 40 that make up the conscious!
If you think that the unconscious cannot solve problems to guide us in our lives then thats only because it isn't given the room to do so. We have our "best" ideas under the shower because we are daydreaming and allowing our thoughts to drift - showering is a completely automatic behaviour from the perspective of the conscious. We're not consciously controlling our thoughts and that allows the unconscious to generate random "interrupts" to our flow of thoughts.
There is even a theory that I once read that we are actually completely guided/controlled by our subconscious and only when the subconscious cannot decide between two or more options, does it generate an interrupt and the conscious is triggered to make a decision. This can be observed in taking a sip from a cup - do we consciously decide to take that sip or does our body simple move our muscles to make us drink because the body is thirsty?
Dreams is another source of interesting unconscious ideas, well worth taking those ten minutes in the morning just to reflect on those dreams. Not interpret them, reflect.
So the next time you (the everyone you not the Julian you) ride a bike and consciously push down one leg and then consciously push down the other all consciously coordinated with the hands that are doing the steering, take a moment to consciously reflect about life, the universe and the brains role in that constellation! 
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And its amazing and yet it drives me crazy 
Wait for v10 
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You Tease lol
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