Swapped my breadboard layout for perfboard after my 3rd failed fuzz pedal

I used to spend every Friday night cramming components onto a solderless breadboard, testing circuits with jumper wires everywhere. It worked fine until I tried to box up a fuzz face clone and the whole thing fell apart when I moved it. So last month in Austin, I bought a roll of perfboard and some 24 gauge wire and started building direct on that. Now I solder point to point with a simple layout sketch, and it takes me maybe 2 hours instead of 6 with way less debugging. The connections are solid and I can actually test it inside the enclosure before sealing it up. Has anyone else made this switch and found a good trick for planning the trace paths without a schematic software?

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