Are you able to just turn off the notifications?
Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#382Something I do that might also work for some folks: I don't use the Slack installed app, just the webapp on my browser. It makes it easier to hide away/close it.
The main reason I do this is that as a freelance dev I work with several different companies; I keep a separate browser profile for each, and Company X's Slack just lives as a tab in the corresponding browser profile/instance. I've also found it helps me keeps Slack as something I check for time to time, instead of an active, distracting presence on my computer.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#383Fuck slack. Treat it like email.
Batch it on an a regular schedule. Set boundaries publicly with its use.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was glad that he shared what helped him, and after reading your plea to prevent people from accessing this information, doubly so. You should especially be ashamed for trying to keep people struggling with mental health issues in that state.
Talk to a medical professional before engaging in any change to your diet or medication, especially if you have mental health issues. This kind of thing is how you spiral out of control, I've seen it dozens of times. You and anyone else struggling need to find QUALIFIED people to help you, not random Internet people. Your life literally depends on doing what I'm saying here, not in experimenting with fad diets and sn…
Me? Did you reply to the wrong post? If you didn't, why would you think I don't have a doctor and and a nutritionist, and why would you think I am looking for a new nutrition plan? You don't know 24+ people who have had this problem, either.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
Parenting?
Let me attempt to explain what I think he meant. Some families are dysfunctional. Addictions can be big here, but the personalities of the parents can drive this without any alcohol or drug use. Often, the families that look the best from the outside are the most dysfunctional inside. There is a whole rabbit warren that I'm attempting to not dive down here. Suffice to say, it's not uncommon and it's not obvious. Chil…
Pretty close. This not my anon account. So I won't be saying anything more.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
Talk to a medical professional before engaging in any change to your diet or medication, especially if you have mental health issues. This kind of thing is how you spiral out of control, I've seen it dozens of times. You and anyone else struggling need to find QUALIFIED people to help you, not random Internet people. Your life literally depends on doing what I'm saying here, not in experimenting with fad diets and sn…
Me? Did you reply to the wrong post? If you didn't, why would you think I don't have a doctor and and a nutritionist, and why would you think I am looking for a new nutrition plan? You don't know 24+ people who have had this problem, either.
There's a concept in English called the "royal you", I do recommend you (specifically you) look it up.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me? Did you reply to the wrong post? If you didn't, why would you think I don't have a doctor and and a nutritionist, and why would you think I am looking for a new nutrition plan? You don't know 24+ people who have had this problem, either.
There's a concept in English called the "royal you", I do recommend you (specifically you) look it up.
No one is going to believe you originally meant that. I'm sorry. You are so bad for the health of the people around you and a poor discussion partner. :(
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a concept in English called the "royal you", I do recommend you (specifically you) look it up.
No one is going to believe you originally meant that. I'm sorry. You are so bad for the health of the people around you and a poor discussion partner. :(
I just.. on so many levels, I see your response here as a lower form of human communication. Honestly, and I get how pretentious that sounds, but you sound like a wounded, broken animal.
As if you're hardly even human; the embodiment of your own insecurities, lashing out in confusion about how the world around you works. You spout whatever combination of words would hurt you most to others, a whirling dervish of emotional weakness and impotency.
There's no light in your eyes is there? Just a dead, cowlike stare, a ring of sclera revealing your panicked ego constantly assessing how you fit in with the other apes, dreading even the tiniest perception of loss.
And honestly? It probably doesn't get better. This is probably it for you, there's not likely to be a grand improvement in your life or how you perceive reality. That panic will never go away, that confusion and anger is just who you are now.
You apparently rage against medicine, you rage against people who actually understand reality, but mostly you rage against yourself; this is it. This is you. You are a pile of fear and frustration from incompetence, just like you were as a child, and you'll never be anything more.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#390It may not be helpful in your particular case depending on how your Slack is administered and similar, but my setup is like so:
- https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack with WeeChat (weechat.org) for IM only (i.e. configured so that it only notifies when an IM (one-on-one or group) is received); and
- https://github.com/tomhrr/paws for retrieving messages from Slack as email, and sending responses to those emails to Slack.
https://github.com/nicm/fdm is used for all filtering of email, including Slack messages. This allows for rules like e.g. marking everything from Slack as read, unless it's from channel X and matches your username, or it was sent after 6pm, or similar.
With this setup, IMs still come through as IMs, but everything else goes to email and is treated like email. Retrieving email and Slack messages happens based on local configuration, so it can e.g. be set up to fetch once per hour, and then all of those messages can be dealt with in one go. As the filters are refined, the number of useless messages that have to be reviewed decreases. With this configuration, at least in my experience, Slack is much less of a nuisance.