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Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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Re: Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the parent, but I'm also AuDHD. My current drunk baboon is named OOH LOOK, SHINY but sometimes it's named THIS IS BORING LETS GO DO SOMETHING ELSE. A sufficient dose of a medically prescribed stimulant medication quiets him down enough to usually ignore him, for me. It's been literally life changing. My lack of concrete executive function cost me the job of a lifetime.

Same here. I went through college and grad school by sheer will over sleep. Once I allowed myself to think that maybe it was ADD I got a prescription and now I get twice as much done with half the effort. It's frustrating as hell, all that time I spent...when I could have done more while also invested more time into my family.

With all the disclaimers of talk to your own psychiatrist noted, I’m curious what specific medication is helping you. I went through a similar process and some of the side effects were too much to balance.

Re: Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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I asked it to break down eating a pie, this is what I got: Choose a pie Gather necessary utensils (fork, plate, napkin) Place the pie on the plate Cut a slice of the pie Pick up the slice with the fork Bring the slice to your mouth Take a bite of the pie Chew and savor the flavor Repeat until finished Dispose of any leftovers responsibly Clean up the utensils and plate Maybe an absurd example but I feel like somethin…

Vaguely related: Julio Cortázar’s “Instructions on How to Climb a Staircase” – https://doarchstairs2016.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

Re: Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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Abstract it more. This is essentially a thin wrapper around an LLM. Hardcoded prompt templates. The value isnt in the template itself, but more-so the curation of the template. So curate better. Instead of hardcoding the prompt template, allow people to create/share/vote on arbitrary templates. A prompt library of sorts.

Open-ended prompting seems to go against your prescription of more curation. Also, I don't think most people want to think about LLM prompting. The tool should be prompting for me. I think they are going towards the right direction of how to use LLMs, not away from it. A "break down task into steps" would be a great feature for every todolist app.

>Open-ended prompting seems to go against your prescription of more curation

Not at all. There is the selection mechanism and the universe of templates. Both can be greater in a system where there is user creation and voting. Otherwise we're saying Goblin.tools has searched and found the best templates possible. Seems unlikely. And even if true now you dont need Goblin.tools anymore because you have just recreate the static templates.

Re: Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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I've ADHD and I'm on the spectrum. Others may differ - it's a spectrum after all- but I feel no list-only app will ever silence the drunk baboon on my shoulder constantly pulling my attention from what I'm doing. I'd advise goblin.tools to market itself differently and aim for the neurotypical market as well. #my2cents

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As another AuDHD Iwish it was so.

Then I could just blink them and get benefits.

Instead I sometimes can't follow a book that is both engaging and interesting to read because 3 pages in my brain will throw at me at least one novel story plot bunny, musing on alternative solutions to whatever is the problem in the book, musing on implementing things from the book, possibly multiple software project ideas, etc.

And all of the above can happen for both fiction and non fiction.

And then come the interrupts while trying to focus, which quickly lead to situations where I can't focus due to expectation of interrupt, which only then leads to doom scrolling because it both fills a need to do something and is worthless enough to not care about being interrupted

Re: Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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This is a great use for LLMs because anywhere that they can get someone over the activation energy requirement of the blank page effect, it's okay if they're wrong – it's much easier to correct a wrong broken-down list than start it oneself.

One of the bigger uses of Llama I found for myself is throwing a description of email to write, having them generate a skeleton for me, this kickstart enough that I can do a rewrite even when I totally lack the energy to start one.

Sometimes also making them rewrite it in a different style then rewriting that manually again

Re: Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I went through college and grad school by sheer will over sleep. Once I allowed myself to think that maybe it was ADD I got a prescription and now I get twice as much done with half the effort. It's frustrating as hell, all that time I spent...when I could have done more while also invested more time into my family.

With all the disclaimers of talk to your own psychiatrist noted, I’m curious what specific medication is helping you. I went through a similar process and some of the side effects were too much to balance.

Vyvanse here. Very "soft" compared to other ADHD meds.

Re: Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

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I've ADHD and I'm on the spectrum. Others may differ - it's a spectrum after all- but I feel no list-only app will ever silence the drunk baboon on my shoulder constantly pulling my attention from what I'm doing. I'd advise goblin.tools to market itself differently and aim for the neurotypical market as well. #my2cents

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Fair warning, what will write only applies to my circumstance and I have no intention to denigrate the life experiences of others.

I used to prescribe myself labels like ADHD. In fact I probably got into this habit at a very young age since people around me were already talking about labels and how they did or didn't apply to me, and I soaked all this up as children are wont to do.

I no longer abide by such labels anymore and still live comfortably. I discovered that what I called "ADHD" and motivated me to get on the Ritalin/TODO list/5-alarms-a-day train was my method of relieving myself from stress. Distracting myself was my way of coping with stress I found impossible to deal with or even approach at a lower level.

And historically, I had experienced the consequences of not distracting myself firsthand. In the past, when I forced myself take breaks and do literally nothing for a week at a time, I was stressed for what seemed like no reason for every waking hour. The stress would only be relieved when I went back to distracting myself with something (on my computer, at work, etc.). The difference was I was previously unable to recognize the cause of this stress and this address it effectively.

When I was able to address the underlying cause of stress (and this lurked in the background for years or even decades and would not have appeared consciously without heavy-duty and sustained focus), my desire for Facebook-Twitter-HN disappeared overnight. So did my stimulant prescription.

With that, the label "ADHD" disappeared as well. I called myself that a lot over the years. It turns out I was just fighting myself the whole time for seeing myself as "too weak" to deal with being unable to sustain "attention", and targeting my distraction as if it were the ultimate cause, not the symptom it really was. The stress was the real problem, and it remained latent for years without me so much as thinking of it.

On top of being distracted all the time from stress, my belief was if I couldn't stick to a stringent schedule with every minute detail mapped out for each day, I was a failure. Because my impression was that that's the standard you needed to set for yourself to address "ADHD", and if you weren't putting in your reps, your condition would dominate you and you'd live a miserable existence... which made miserable, which only made me believe more strongly in this narrative, and so on in an endless spiral.

I should mention everyone around me also believed in the "disease model" of psychology, so they only served to reinforce these beliefs. I think I renounced this model a bit too strongly in hindsight, as a few of my relationships have been left permanently altered as a result.

Now I don't bother to follow a strict schedule except for work things. I clean my place on Sunday. That's my only real obligation I've set for myself. Things that "need to be" done somehow get done automatically - because I don't need to pressure myself into doing them, I just want to, and they don't take much time. I no longer feel the need to sweat any of those details or micromanage my own life anymore, and instead just take life as it comes.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that I've never been happier with myself living this way.

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