For more than five years I've been switching between frameworks and apps, looking for something that convinces me, but there's always something that doesn't quite click. And over time I realized that the problem isn't so much with the tools, but with me: I'm obsessed with planning, rather than doing. I put so much effort into organizing my ideas... See more

This also makes it easier to see why the strategies generally recommended for defeating distraction—digital detoxes, personal rules about when you’ll allow yourself to check your inbox, and so forth—rarely work, or at least not for long. They involve limiting your access to the things you use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case... See more

What you are describing sounds exactly like symptoms of ADD, basically executive functioning issues (the lack of ability to make yourself start tasks, yet desperately wanting to get things done and stressing about not being able to start).