A few weeks ago I managed to sit down for a few hours to put all my ongoing tasks and projects in fucking project management software in order to be able to follow it up better. I'm now afraid of opening the software to look at the mountain of collected work therein.
I managed to finish writing a poem after more than 6 months. I hope I can finish my academic paper soon as well. Man, life is fucking hard.
Look at all those things yesterday-me was interested in.
I realized that even if the archive is unwieldy, the act of saving satisfies the itch. So I'm not saving to necessarily look at it later. I'm saving so that the annoying part of my brain fucks off and I can enjoy my day in peace.
You laugh but I'm glad Ive got a picture of my driver's license favorited so I can find my license number easily without having to get up and find my wallet when some random form wants it.
Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key but can't remember my own driver's license number.
I will make that hoagie roll recipe I’ve had open for months, I’m just not ready yet
Listen. That e-ink display I've got tucked away in a screenshot and an open tab is important and I will look at it later and decide whether I want to do that project.
You just delete the screenshot folder whenbit gets intimidating. Most of them were of my lockscreen anyways.
Nah, you just need to become the other kind of ADHD.
I better bookmark this post
Screenshotting and bookmarking is the equivalent of a SuperLike. It’s a badge of honour.
I'm beginning to suspect I have an undiagnosed problem
I'm self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason, but... I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser and write some things down in two separate note taking apps... Send help.
You could go through it and screenshot the interesting parts
OK I take most of these on the chin but I gotta push back on this one because NTs could use it too.
Every picture in the database gets OCR + fuzzy-alt-text + facial-rec + geo-location + timestamp etc etc, all of which are indexed and searchable. Yet the entries themselves are effortless to produce once you’re in the habit.
Those breadcrumbs ultimately augment your functional capacity for recall, and can help you turn an incredibly vague hint of a memory into… voila! …an actual snapshot of that thing from the past.
So it’s not some kind of magpie hoarding behavior necessarily.
It’s note-taking, receipt-keeping, evidence-gathering, and journaling that’s effortless and constantly useful.
I almost want to block this community because it’s just too close to home.
So then I almost starred this.
Turns out I have 19 pages of Lemmy bookmarks in the browser, just from a year. On top of bookmarks scattered across many browsers.
I haven’t looked through them once.
…Shut up. Covers ears.
Thanks, I hate it.
Thinking this is a cool new meme
Realizing I've already liked it
I really need to set myself up on LinkWarden or linkding; it would solve at least 95% of this problem and my massive tab problem as well
Facts lol 😂
The most recent thing I remember losing is a website/blog explaining how video encoding works, and algorithm of different encodings; written by someone who has written different implementations in rust. It has really good explainations that I just skimmed through, bookmarked it, then lost it. If the other ADHD folks have ever seen something like that, please let me know, I'll have to re-add it for that one day.
And this is the sole reason for my MyMind subscription. 10% interesting maker projects, 90% funny memes and comics.
it's come to the point where I have 3 different knowledge bases each with 10 nonstop months worth of content and ideas help ;- ; I have 400 (yes 400) tabs open in Firefox.
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