This is my partner and I constantly
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Sticky note on the door jamb
I tie this to my keys so it forces me to remember that there is something I needed to remember... Now if I could only remember what that thing was...
(No that is not my carpet lol it's shitty foam to protect parts put on it at my job)
Now to attach this to the lapel of my shirt where it belongs
I clip my keys themselves to whichever thing I have to bring with me or remember.
I have a whiteboard on my desk. It's the only effective "to do" list I've found, for me. It's covered in chicken scratching. I erase stuff as I do them.
Woah. How large is that whiteboard?
About 18x8 inches. Not to worry, I have a classroom-sized whiteboard as a backup.
Whiteboards are great for this.
Note taking app.
I literally have thousands of notes on Keep that I have never looked at a second time.
Orgzly does reminders, I don't abuse it and it works great.
That's what I use Joplin for.
(Who wrote all those ToDos in my Joplin app????)
That goes into cyber space where I never see or remember it again.
Note: Pack X and Y for weekend.
Weekend comes. Fuuuuug forgot X and Y.
I have them... Gets used every few months for a few days.
The trick is to reduce that gap until it becomes a habit. Not going back after a gap is the problem
Hey Google, remember the window is 23 inches wide
Hey Google what did I ask you to remember?
If you write it several times in a row you are more likely to remember it.
Where ADHD and SelfHosted combine: I self host Trilium Notes to attempt to solve this problem. Most of the time it works.
My memory sort of acts like a carousel/merry-go-round, in that I'll store a memory, I know it is there, but I cannot access it at will, and it will re-appear at a random time at some point in the future when doing something completely unrelated.
A "memory-go-round", if you will.
A "memory-go-round", if you will.
Eyyyyyyyy
For me, a proper reminder needs to have a property like physically preventing progress until I take care of the thing, or jumping up and demanding my attention until I take care of the thing.
The most basic form is that if I need to do something tomorrow at noon, I don’t create a reminder. I create an alarm! And if the alarm goes off and the thing is not done, I snooze it instead of stop it.
Easiest way for me is writing notes on 'saved messages' on telegram. Accessible from phone app, desktop app and web.
license number SG1371U
Nothing is more frustrating than knowing you wrote something down, but not knowing where.
Nothing is more frustrating than finding a note and wondering what it means or if you did it.
- Unroll the car
- Table Tablet - DO ASAP
- Spaghetti bowl
Nothing is more frustrating than knowing you were supposed to write something down, then not remembering what that something was. Yet for some stupid reason you can remember you were going to write whatever it was down.
Yeah and you remember it while in the bus or the pool, where you can't write it down anymore.
Yep, then you forget again before you can write it down.
Like a memory whack-a-mole.
Yeah, the time to go the lost and it's gone because something random grabbed you attention for a sec, like people passing in the street
How about saying you'll write it down -hey look, a distraction!- then forgetting what it was that you wanted to write down?
This is why I write important things on my hands directly.
Currently my list is:
Call the Doolor
I'm sure I'll figure out what the smudges are eventually
Call the Doctor?
Yeah, it was a joke
I have so many notepads
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