A Practical Fix You Can Use Right Now
Eliminate the transfer step entirely.
Instead of maintaining two systems with a bridge between them, write everything - ideas, tasks, projects, half-thoughts - into a single input. Then apply one rule before you close the tab:
What is the one physical action this requires next?
Not a project. Not a category. One next action, written as a verb: call, write, open, review.
If you can't answer that question, it's not ready to be in your execution system yet - and that's fine. Leave it in ideas.
This is the core insight from David Allen's *Getting Things Done* - a capture system only works when every item in it has a defined next physical action. Without that, you're not managing tasks. You're managing intentions.