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

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Post by LordDragonfang »

podgietaru wrote: post #108

Oh hey! I made something like this that integrates with TickTick https://github.com/Podginator/TickGPTick It needs updating, but basically you set a tag that let’s you expand tasks out much in the way goblin tools does.

I just recently started heavily using TickTick, and my first thought on seeing this was that it would be cool to be able to integrate this into it. Very cool to see someone has done it, thank you!

If I might ask, how was your experience working with the TickTick API? I've been waffling on whether my frustration with some of the pain points I have with it (e.g. no way to hide recurring daily tasks that you've already completed today but aren't actionable for tomorrow from cluttering the "tomorrow" heading in every smart list) justify building my own dashboards for it.

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

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Post by jimmcslim »

With the Estimator I asked...

How long to build a Space Shuttle? "5 to 10 years"

How long to build a Time Machine? "5 to 50 years"

Tearing down the governance systems of the United States of America and replacing them with a dictatorship? "Several months to several years"

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

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Post by danaris »

MrMcCall wrote: post #155
hedayet wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have ADHD. Here's my story: 1. I can focus and solve hard problems, but you’ll notice my legs swinging restlessly, hand gestures, or me suddenly typing a completely unrelated web address. 2. I was always a great student, but I was also the most restless; making jokes and talking constantly, no matter how hard I was punished for my behavior. 3. The toughest part of my ADHD is inconsistency. My performance can fluctu…

I would recommend you pay careful attention to your diet - get the proper amount of essential fatty acids - experiment with vitamins, especially magnesium - green, leafy vegetables - minimal processed sugar & zero alcohol And exercise. Get some cardio, even if it's just walking for a half-hour to an hour. It's a struggle, but learning your body will help you optimize your performance and consistency. Peace be with yo…

On the one hand, it's true that these things are very important. I (as another diagnosed with ADHD) definitely do worst when I don't get proper nutrients.

But it's very, very important to remember and understand that these things don't make it go away.

I'm not saying you're suggesting that doing these things will make ADHD go away—but your comment is ambiguous as to whether that's where you're going with it, and there's definitely a lot of people who don't really believe that ADHD is a "real" disorder, many of whom give advice just like yours and end with something like "...and if you do all of this right, you'll be perfectly normal!"

So I want to both heartily endorse your recommendations (both the general "eat well," and these specific items), and also caution strongly against expecting miracle results.

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

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Post by danaris »

fullstackchris wrote: post #141
MarcelOlsz wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My life got infinitely better when I stopped believing in any of that. It feels more like a spiritually bereft western pseudo-religion and I resent anyone parading around these titles.

Definitely agree there. There seems like there is a label for EVERYTHING these days. Coincidentally there was an article in the paper I saw just today about how destructive self diagnosis can be (and how many gen z / alpha are doing that via tiktok) I rememeber when some first tried to explain ADHD to me... and I was like... "what? elementary school kids dont like sitting in a classroom for 6 hours a day? so like, be…

I think what's incredibly important to remember is that ADHD is not a binary thing. It's not even a single spectrum.

It's a cluster of executive-function-related symptoms, any number of which a given person with the disorder can have a little, a lot, or even not at all. (I forget what all of them are offhand, but I have about a half-dozen of them in noticeable amounts, and several others that seriously debilitate many people with ADHD I've never had problems with.)

So while you may be able to "[not] think about it...just keep working hard...and do great things regardless", that's guaranteed not to be true of everyone with ADHD.

The worst advice anyone with ADHD can give someone else with it is "just do exactly what I did, and you'll never have problems again". That goes triple when "what you did" is ignore it.

The best advice I know of is to learn and understand what having ADHD means to you. Then use that knowledge to figure out how best to mitigate the problems it causes. For some, that will be medication. For others (like me), it may mean finding specific interventions for individual symptoms, and learning to live with some of the others.

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

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Post by _carbyau_ »

wnolens wrote: post #134
throw80521 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest, I thought exactly like you for years. I still benefit from society choosing to label me with something, and that I do not choose to fight. For a while my diagnoses provided so many explanations to my problems and I could live with new purpose. But a while later, I found it was not enough. I hadn't reached "true happiness" or at least whatever I can call my current state of being. I took a different path…

I was going to reply to the same post with similar. If just having a label to apply alleviates the negative emotion, isn't it a placebo? I think a far far greater number of people experience the exact same problems of focus and distress, and learn to cope effectively in their own deeply personal way. I identify strongly with all the symptoms stated. A label feels useless, or worse - constraining, as it becomes your i…

I'm not the author of the post you critique.

I suspect if you just have a "label" it doesn't do much. But the label now makes information a keyword search away. Hence their commentary:

instead I can learn from and lean on hundreds of thousands of other people who have to cope with the same thing.

Which would lead to learning strategies to deal with the day to day rather than struggling to find your own way.

Knowledge is power. But power still has to be used to mean anything.

Once you've learned the strategies that work for you. Then I guess the label loses it's power.

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

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Post by zaik »

jimmcslim wrote: post #162

With the Estimator I asked... How long to build a Space Shuttle? "5 to 10 years" How long to build a Time Machine? "5 to 50 years" Tearing down the governance systems of the United States of America and replacing them with a dictatorship? "Several months to several years"

Democracy is just a handful of key people following some norms. This can change very quickly once the wrong people are in power. See the timeline of the downfall of the Weimar republic.

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

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Post by idiotsecant »

MrMcCall wrote: post #155
hedayet wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have ADHD. Here's my story: 1. I can focus and solve hard problems, but you’ll notice my legs swinging restlessly, hand gestures, or me suddenly typing a completely unrelated web address. 2. I was always a great student, but I was also the most restless; making jokes and talking constantly, no matter how hard I was punished for my behavior. 3. The toughest part of my ADHD is inconsistency. My performance can fluctu…

I would recommend you pay careful attention to your diet - get the proper amount of essential fatty acids - experiment with vitamins, especially magnesium - green, leafy vegetables - minimal processed sugar & zero alcohol And exercise. Get some cardio, even if it's just walking for a half-hour to an hour. It's a struggle, but learning your body will help you optimize your performance and consistency. Peace be with yo…

Imagine if someone had a broken arm and you told them to focus on their calcium intake. I mean, yeah, for sure, but it's kind of primarily important to put the arm in a sling before we discuss the finer points of mineral uptake efficiency. This may not be your intention but this post reeks of crunchy granola holistic fluff woo.

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

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Post by idiotsecant »

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #72
quibono wrote: post #44

This could be overgeneralising a bit... but I see a lot of people with ADHD (on- and offline) who tend to make it an essential part of their identity. I realise it's a very impactful thing to have to deal with (I have ADHD too) but I feel like a lot of the time it's brought up for no real reason. E.g. you started daydreaming when reading a book? Forgot something to do when you walked through a doorway? Got angry? You…

My life got infinitely better when I stopped believing in any of that. It feels more like a spiritually bereft western pseudo-religion and I resent anyone parading around these titles.

If your life improved when you stopped believing in the symptoms that's a good thing for you but it also means you probably didn't actually have symptoms.

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

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Post by idiotsecant »

nsagent wrote: post #99
dijit wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's likely a definitive example of selection bias, you won't hear people not talking about having it, but ADHD affects (approximately) 30% of the population. Assuming even a tiny amount of those are loud when exploring their discovery would mean a lot of people talking about it online. This is likely also combined with Millennials (my cohort at least) being one of the most self-aware generational cohorts in history…

It seems odd that as a society it's been deemed a-okay to pathologize a cluster of traits shared by 30% of the population.

So if 30% of people develop high blood pressure should be pretend that doesn't exist anymore as well?

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

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Post by idiotsecant »

theshackleford wrote: post #128
no_wizard wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I see a lot of people with ADHD (on- and offline) who tend to make it an essential part of their identity Honest question: why is this an issue? If someone makes it part of their identity its because they feel its important for others to know, and that can be for a variety of reasons. Is there a reason we shouldn't make it part of our identity, if we so choose?

Because they want to gatekeep it and how you are supposed to act with it.

Boy, the unsubstantiated claims in this thread are really ramping up. Who's the 'they' in this case? You saw a person gatekeeping something one time so now it's some kind of problem to discuss real symptoms that impact people's lives in a very tangible way?
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