How do you manage your time after works for your side projects?

These days I'm being a victim of random frequent procrastination after office works.

I feel you.

Days like this I do planning chores. Cleaning up the board, double-checking tasks' progress, thinking of new tasks to work on later, taking a 2hr long walk outside [regardless the weather] thinking of blockers I have atm, possible solutions, spots to reimplement differently,...

Sometimes I use such lazy days to play around with technologies I may have to use later.

Or just plain and simply - sit back, open up Netflix and allow my mind to have some rest. "all work and no play..." -- y'all know how this sentence and the whole situation ends.. ;)

My projects usually litter my quite small room. Eventually I get annoyed enough to get it done someday - like right now there's a bicycle waiting for a complete overhaul to finish and I kinda have to climb around it everytime I move from Bed to Desk or Bathroom. The tyres (along with a third one) block my closet.
And that's not my only project

I don't recommend

I wake up early (530am) that gives me 1.5 hours until my family wakes up.

I take some days being the responsible parent on evening and weekend to let my wife do things, and she takes some days to let me do things.

The only side projects I work on are projects that are useful or interesting to me. If I don't feel like coding after work one day, then I don't.

Personally, I find gaming to be a much better use of my free time.

@ostream youre seriously gonna say side projects are useless after a mere YEAR of being a dev? I'll argue they have value no matter what your experience level. At first sure they might be for learning... but when you get more advanced you can flip them as profitable SaaS products!