OK I take most of these on the chin but I gotta push back on this one because NTs could use it too.
Every picture in the database gets OCR + fuzzy-alt-text + facial-rec + geo-location + timestamp etc etc, all of which are indexed and searchable. Yet the entries themselves are effortless to produce once you’re in the habit.
Those breadcrumbs ultimately augment your functional capacity for recall, and can help you turn an incredibly vague hint of a memory into… voila! …an actual snapshot of that thing from the past.
So it’s not some kind of magpie hoarding behavior necessarily.
It’s note-taking, receipt-keeping, evidence-gathering, and journaling that’s effortless and constantly useful.
Nah, you just need to become the other kind of ADHD.
I realized that even if the archive is unwieldy, the act of saving satisfies the itch. So I’m not saving to necessarily look at it later. I’m saving so that the annoying part of my brain fucks off and I can enjoy my day in peace.
OOF
A few weeks ago I managed to sit down for a few hours to put all my ongoing tasks and projects in fucking project management software in order to be able to follow it up better. I’m now afraid of opening the software to look at the mountain of collected work therein.
I’ve got so many dead tasks management tools that I spent a day setting up.
Oh, but have you tried [insert software that has 8-billion tools, all of which you ignore and you just use as a notepad]?
I finally began to just purge everything, its a whole project trying to sell off my projects though so now my living room is a warehouse of boxes and bubbles wrap I’ve been bringing home from work
You laugh but I’m glad Ive got a picture of my driver’s license favorited so I can find my license number easily without having to get up and find my wallet when some random form wants it.
Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key but can’t remember my own driver’s license number.
Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key
…h…how many times did you have to reinstall Windows 95?*
*Before 98 came out? Lol
IT professional… SO MANY TIMES. Any not just reinstall, we were upgrading and doing primary installs.
I knew a 95 key and an office key. (which was easy because 1201234567 worked on O2k
This makes so much sense hahaha.
Probably giving away my years, but in my brain’s personal experience, Windows starts being an IT OS around the XP era. :p
Nobody was going to stay on 3.11
NT really lacked drivers and was super expensive.
We used 95, skipped 98 until se came out. We did a fair amount of Win2k, XP was pretty rough until service pack 2. When Serviceback 3 hit, we eradicated everything else on the desktop.
A lot. I had a Packard Bell 486 that came with 3.1 and a free upgrade. Except I would constantly get “Explorer.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down” error.
One day I decided to compress the hard drive and for some reason, that fixed it. It never happened again.
I managed to finish writing a poem after more than 6 months. I hope I can finish my academic paper soon as well. Man, life is fucking hard.
Go do 20 minutes on your paper.
What’s 20 minutes?
You got this!
Life is fucking hard, but a step at a time can make it more bearable. I believe in you SexualPolytope
Thanks lol. I do intend to finish by this weekend. But then I planned it last weekend too. Let’s see how it goes lol.
Look at all those things yesterday-me was interested in.
stop reading my mind, tyvm.
ive actually just been sifting through the mountains of data i accumulated over the better part of a decade, or more.
and let me tell you, a lot of these i actually followed up through on! turns out you do come back to it later in other ways and don’t even notice you made a lot of progress until you come back to The Archives™
overwhelming at first but deleting a lot of old shit has never felt so good. like doing a big spring cleaning on my mind.
Listen. That e-ink display I’ve got tucked away in a screenshot and an open tab is important and I will look at it later and decide whether I want to do that project.
ooo love playing with displays.
whaddya got in mind for that juicy e-ink?
I will make that hoagie roll recipe I’ve had open for months, I’m just not ready yet
Now you’ve got to share it with us.
https://www.richardeaglespoon.com/articles/how-to-hoagie
Ask and ye shall receive
Ooo that looks good. I got into sandwich making as my hyperfocus for a while and I’d really like to make more.
Mmm MM!
Sandwiches is a good hyper focus. <3
You just delete the screenshot folder whenbit gets intimidating. Most of them were of my lockscreen anyways.
Thank you. I read your comment, then held my breath and deleted nearly 10,000 screenshots.
I give it 6 hours until you desperately need some obscure reference number from 10 months ago
Hey now. It was 9 hours and I was fine until I saw your comment, then panicked and began rummaging in Recently Deleted. Aaaaand goddammit there’s some good shit in this bin
I give it 90 seconds after that moment until their searching for the old reference lands them on some new and better reference they’d rather use instead
I think they meant “reference number” like some sort of “remember this code if anything goes wrong or we won’t refund you” to return a product or something lol.
I think this is a major issue with such things though. There’s so much paper mail especially where it says “keep for your records” but it’s like… between some fuzzy limbo of necessity and garbage.
…so it either gets scanned to PaperlessNGX or gets stuffed in a “I want this stupid paper off my desk and I’m not sure if I should keep it” box that I’ll go through when it’s full. Lol
Damn, that a lot of can kicking you just got off the todo list.
I’m self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason, but… I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser and write some things down in two separate note taking apps… Send help.
I’m self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason,
Oh my gosh what is this.
I want it.
This is going to end up an enormous chunk of my server space isn’t it. :3
I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser
I think this is just a side effect of how mobile browsers seem to work. Every quick little lookup I do is in its own tab, and I close the browser instead of the tab when I’m done, so if you’re like me, it builds up to an absurdly high number very fast.
If I haven’t gone back through that list in like a month I just take a deep breath and hit “close all tabs”.
I’m gonna try this Karakeep though. I’ve tried traditional bookmarks in Firefox and…I never actually reference them. Lol
For me browser tabs are actually something like a 3rd note taking app, lmao. I look things up and leave the tab open so I don’t forget about it. And then I still forget about it for a year, lol.
I do neglect my Karakeep bookmarks, but I like it as a drawer I throw everything in. Kind of like a trash can, lol. It feels good to have a bunch of mess in its separate space with the added benefit of having lists and tags. The latter can also be automatically generated by LLMs. I use locally hosted ollama on my Arc, but it’s hit or miss depending on how large a model you can run. Smaller ones are more a miss than a hit.
Depends on what you enable with it. Want it to download YT videos you send it? That’s gonna required a lot of space
Screenshotting and bookmarking is the equivalent of a SuperLike. It’s a badge of honour.
You could go through it and screenshot the interesting parts
Aye i will when I get a chance
