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I have so many notes in my notes app, it’s hard to find the notes i write down because there’s so many. So…
That’s why I usually write notes in repeating alarms. The sound annoyance forces me to deal with them before they become too much. Either that or I directly write an event on the calendar.
If anything I only have light ADHD but I live by alarms.
I just keep rescheduling the calendar reminders because they always come up when I’m already doing something else.
This. It never works for me. They always happen at an inopportune time and I just swipe it away. 10 seconds later I forget I even swiped away something, so I don’t even get to reschedule it.
If I stop to reschedule it, I lose my flow of whatever else I was doing and then that doesn’t get done because the momentum is gone.
Also if you don’t remember you wrote it in your notes app, how will you remember to look at the notes in time 🙈
You just make it a habit to always check your notes app either way. Just like you try to make it a habit to write notes even if it’s minor.
It’s always fun to see everything I was supposed to remember when I open the notes to remember something new
so real
Several times in my office notes i write something partially during a meeting, and end up blanking out later on what I meant to finish it with
My Notepad++ has 32 tabs open with notes, some I don’t even remember what they’re for.
Even just the act of writing something down helps solidify it in your memory.
Also, since you have those tabs, you can just… flip through them and check. Then close out anything that’s unimportant or past its usefulness. Its not like this information is “forgotten”. You’re just choosing not to look at it, for whatever reason.
This is one of the things that smart phones have done for me.
I may not remember I wrote it down, but I will remember where because it’s in the notes app on my smart phone.
That being said, this obvious still doesn’t really solve anything if I don’t even remember there was something to be written down.
And it creates a brand new problem if I do remember because then I get caught up scrolling through notes trying to figure out what they mean, if I still need them, and lamenting that I didn’t remember to check notes for these other things back then.
One white legal pad next to my desk, one pocket notebook and travel pen in my pocket. Have a thought or idea, write it down. Every Saturday I type all those notes into a running Google doc for the year and then put a check mark next to it on the paper.
I have a doc for every year. I regularly go back and read though them starting with the most current year and working back. If something is completed or used in a project I use the mark through function on that entry so it can still be read in case it could be helpful again but to signify that I’ve used it.
It’s not a perfect system but it’s helped me a ton.
Deal with it everyday. It’s funny and I hate it.
No the adhd demon is the guy that makes you forget
The adhd lady tells you to write it down
But you have to actually put it on a good place and for that the adhd demon is actually quite dope
But the adhd lady can be a bitch and tell you too much to write down
Then you need the adhd bro and it is also easy for that part to go overboard and start eating cereal for food even though you need normal food with nutrients
For that you have the adhd fruits, they do great barbershop explanations but suck at understanding when to take a breather so it can get quite hectic but for that there’s amphetamines
Never leave the kitchen while cooking, unless you want to eat charcoal or burn down your house. Especially if your laptop or TV is on, or to check your phone.
i set timers when i leave. usually like “simmer for 30 minutes”. actually also when i stay, i don’t know how long is 1-2 minutes (has it been 20 seconds or 5 minutes??)
but it also help that my place is small enough that i can see or hear the stove from everywhere lol
This is why I carry a pen and little pocket notebook. And I keep all my pocket stuff in the same place every night before bed. Can’t (usually) lose anything that way
yup. Everything i own has a specific place it goes, and it doesn’t go anywhere else, or i will never see it again
I have a super power. If I was paying attention and not just in my own head ignoring you as you talk, I can repeat most conversations word for word for up to a day. And I can easily give a detailed summary for up to a month.
Acting on any of these memories is the challenge. The executive disfunction is the crippling part.
That and paying attention in the first place.
That said, I can also remember where I left off when I get distracted. This helps but not much.
Bold of you to assume I thought of having something to take notes on handy when I need to take notes…
I have a notebook at home and a pen. These two things are somehow never at the same place and time.
I have a notebook in my car, specifically for writing down things when I’m out driving somewhere.
Sometimes I spend so long trying to find it under all the rest of the crap in my car, that when I finally get down to writing, I’m lucky if I can recall the thought at all.
I have dozens of notes in my notes app I forgot existed.
My Google Keep is several gigs in size at this point.
This morning at work i turned on a water valve to fill a big tub of water that would take 15 minutes to fill. I ran across the room to grab my notebook and pen to remind myself. While running to get the pen i found some of my tools out of place as always and started to arranged them. In those two seconds I forgot the notebook and the water, I arranged the tools and left.
When I come back an hour later the water is overflowing and flooding the room.
This is my life, getting distracted by butterflies and forgetting everything
Relatable
I’ll remember this advice
Say what you want to remember to yourself 20 times in a row. This pushes it into long-term memory. It helps.
If you’re a more visual person (or have a visual imagination), I find that remembering the context helps recall. Like, where I am, who I’m with, what I was doing, etc.
There’s also classic mnemonics, like acronyms, but done visually. Sometimes I imagine a scene that can immediately recall the thing I want to remember. It’s hard to describe in words, but then again sometimes the thoughts I want to remember aren’t necessarily in “words” anyway.
while like, jumping in a circle
