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I just go with whatever I get the moments of focus with and I learned to work in a completely non linear way, so that the chaos I have eventually turns into something that works.
> 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…
Yeah, this is definitely how I ended up dealing with it too. I just replaced my computer as the motherboard failed and hadn't setup sync on chrome. I have 1000s of links I no longer have access to and haven't missed them once in 3 months. File and forget is incredibly effective when you have ADHD. There are just too many things that are "interesting" that you'll never have time to do anything about. Just write it dow…
What gets me mad sometimes is that when I work on something and hit a road block, then I remember I found an article about it a year or so ago and I definitely saved it. I just have no idea how to find it.
I have not looked, but I wonder if there is an indexing tool that would also do an OCR on screenshots, PDFs etc. in the local filesystem and then had some advanced querying.
The short solution is a very simple system. Pick 3 specific goals for your year, or your quarter, and before you bookmark/click/read/etc, ask yourself whether that is going to move you forward in a big way toward accomplishing one of those goals. If not, you skip it. It's Pareto Principle in a sense, and it applies to most everything. If you're tempted to "yes but" or other complications, recognize that you're sabotaging yourself and quit it.
Abstinence is the other answer, but that doesn't help generate functional adaptations.
GIGO. 90% of everything, very much including HN, is garbage.
> 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…
> Previously, browser crashes saved my sanity— killing dozens of open tabs with fascinating articles. Laughed so hard reading that. I should one day write the browser self destruct count down extension. Crashes as a service You can delay the shut down by describing what you think you are doing. This makes for a wonderful journal worth of stupid most embarrassing shit mixed with lies. Remember to use a strong password…
No, that's pretty much spot on for everything. 1) See shiny/interesting/cool/usefull thing 2) start making notes 3) possibly even start 4) go to step one.
> 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…
Wha?!
I download every movie and book I can. The more rare the better. I know, deep in my heart, they must be saved from dead torrent links.
Even deeper nestled in the depths of my endlessly deep heart, I know that if there is a disaster, that government agency which tracks all, knows this, and I am on a list.
A list to be saved!
"Grab that guy and his raids", and so on. If nuclear war happens, save the leaders, the scientists, and that damned geek.
Sure, they could break that triple ciphered encryption, even with the custom callback to a helmet + a reading of my tranquil brainwaves, but why risk a bazillion hours of video, text, and OSS source code on that?
Instead, snag me and my stuff they will, plague, zombies, war, etc.
But if I stop collecting, if I stop organizing!? I hear the conversation.
"Who's on the media snag list", but as my name is to be spoken, "Oh.. he stopped downloading" and No!, I am left to burn and die.
How do you stand it?
Read about interesting things, do more research, learn about the subject, read about something new and learn about that instead.
Learning about a variety of topics isn't a bad thing, a thirst for knowledge is good. Sure I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge on one or two topics, but I know a lot of things about a broad range of topics
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This post was a question about how other people with similar issues manage it. I don't see how you read otherwise.
1. Use the "Add to reading list" feature in Safari.
2. Reward myself*
3. Before bed, I use a TTS** app to listen to those articles.
*Important step to give yourself a hit of dopamine, however small. The lack of which is the reason for not being able to control this impulsivity in the first place.
**Text to speech
> 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…
Now I try to let it go That's really the essence of what there is to it, in my opinion and experience at least. But : I only could start doing that when I was in my thirties. Before that my brain just wasn't up for it. Whereas when I now think about many of the things I did back then, especially the clinging to objects/bookmarks, I can fully see how useless and even ridiculous they were. Life is really better when yo…
could be an ADHD-anonymous meeting slogan. I can definitely commiserate with this notion.