On one hand, divorcing myself from the initial impulse to consume or create something helps filter down to what I am and will be truly interested in. On the obvious other hand, the backlog grows to the point where I get paralyzed by so many options and the perfect ideas in my head that I end up not doing anything.
Occasionally, I have a filtering session when I am going through everything and narrowing them down, however extra items are appearing until the next filtering session and the same goes again. It is a vicious cycle.
I would recommend this playlist to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPKaHV7Q5U&list=PLaitaNxyd8...
and the help > tutorial section of sonic itself.
Those two are just amazing: https://youtu.be/a1RxpJkvqpY, https://youtu.be/GPan4gRSwZs
I had sonic-pi bookmarked/planned for more than 5 years. It is sad how most bookmarked items never get viewed or they are postponed to eternity.