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Re: Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?

#11
If glancing at the subject and bookmarking to later seldom go back to it allows you to move on, is that a problem?

Just like you don't have to and cannot read every book in your lifespan, you can't read every blog post. Your bookmarks doesn't have to be your todo list.

You might like Pocket or similar. Pocket specifically can sort your bookmarked articles in various ways, including popularity on the service, or just let it sit there knowing you have the possibility.

Re: Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?

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> There’s a never ending number of things I bookmark.

One of the key features of ADHD is a never-ending list of things to do. Edward M. Hallowell (who wrote "Driven to Distraction") remarks that perhaps it is the most characteristic feature of ADHD.

Previously, browser crashes saved my sanity— killing dozens of open tabs with fascinating articles.

Now I try to let it go. In a Zen/stoic way, knowing that nothing will happen if I don't read something. This list is an illusion, as there are orders of magnitude more exciting stuff on the Internet.

Another approach I use is "write it down". In this sense, I add to bookmarks (here I am a diehard fan of Pinboard), but NOT with the intention of "read it later", but "if I want to find it again, I know where it is". So I have a cake and eat it too - no "wall of links of shame", and no anxiety that I might have lost a life-changing link.

Re: Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?

#16
I don't think I have ADHD but I created a shaarli clone (https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links/) in order to be able to store, share and retrieve all the interesting link (the act of sharing interesting links happens more frequently now that I have a dedicated tool to store/retrieve them) :P

Re: Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?

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post #2

I make it a rule to build the interesting thing, then the brain realizes it's harder than just fantazising about it and leaves me alone.

Yes, this is helpful to me too. I still sometimes get stuck in a loop of starting projects but the reality of how hard actually building something from scratch knocks me down.

you don't have to finish it, you can even give the half finished projects away to someone who enjoys having them - sell as art or something

Re: Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?

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I don't bookmark anything interesting anymore. If I get inspired to look at something again, I search for it.

Yeah. I have several levels of "things I will never get around to": 1. I keep a tab open for a few days until I have 200 tabs open. I then bulk save them using OneTab and never look at that either. 2. Things I want to remain in my gaze goes in my bookmark toolbar until it scrolls off the end and is never seen again 3. I occasionally use regular bookmarks and have come to accept the fact that I never look at them (alt…

I resist doing any of that in the first place because it's just giving in to an unhealthy habit. The time and attention I spent cataloging was supposed to be for something else.
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