Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?

Alt account of long time HN reader/user here:

But I admit that with my life circumstances (adhd, coming from a non wealthy family) and choices (active Christian, more than twice as many kids as the average around here) there will never be time.

I deal with it all by storing it in raindrop (used to be pinboard.in but I finally got utterly fed up).

I also have a bullet journal (ok, Logseq these days) where I have pages for each project and when I see something relevant I can paste a reference to it there.

Finally and most importantly I am realistic and I just admit it is not going to happen. That's life unless you are even more lucky than me. We can still dream though. My grandfather kept the blueprints for his retirement project (a boat he had designed for himself while being a boatbuilder as a young man) until he died, even if I think he realized before retirement it wasn't going to happen. He just made the best out of it.

I have realized already so I bookmark stuff just in case and to get it off my mind and then I very consciously make the things I need to do my hobbies.

I.e. at the moments my hobbies are:

- getting better in

- home repairs (drywall painting atm, but I have added a half way finished cobblestone path around my house and a tool shed, later made wall mounted cabinets for the new garage from leftovers etc etc)

- other repairs (clothes, toys, bikes)

- cooking (good, healthy meals that my wife and children will actually eat - on a budget)

- negotiations (bank, employer etc - I have a reasonably good economy but it needs to stay that way)

- fundraising for the church (I think one of the best way to find great and reliable friends is to volunteer for causes you believe in)

Also maybe interesting:

I felt had an almost crippling addiction to HN, then since late February last year I have barely read HN because of Ukraine.

Meditation to develop single-point concentration.

If the issue is notifications, iOS focus modes have a great deal of flexibility and can also be activated by Actions.

I use a Reading List and file away anything interesting and then immediately close the tab. When I have time, I can go back and review all the things. In truth, I don't read most of them, but filing them away makes me comfortable to move on. If your browser doesn't have a Reading List, there are myriad extensions, you can also use Pocket, or even Evernote's web clipper. Use a couple of key tags - don't go overboard on tagging.

I also just focus on article content and ignore comments on all sites. Anyone can make a comment on a site, and there's no clear indication of authoritative comments vs amateur opinion, so they're largely a waste of time - there are lots of good comments, for sure, but I just don't have the time to wade through looking for them.

> Number one strategy for people with ADHD is migrate to jobs where there is a lot of variety and complexity and things are changing all the time and lots of new interesting things to look into.

Feels like you can never specialize with this approach, but maybe you become an excellent manager of a complex machine?