My limitless desire for information always gets hindered by my very limited memory.
There's nothing like the ADHD experience of going to google something and immediately forgetting what you were going to search so you have to look through your recent apps to find whatever triggered the thought, but then get distracted in the apps, then just rinse and repeat.😩
A lot of the time, I start the re-learning process, only for my long-term memory to kick-in halfway through, and then I get annoyed because I “oh, I’ve read all of this before, it’s boring now”
You know the next sentence, but you don’t understand the concept. You’re bored of the familiar text, so you skip a few sentences, find out they are completely foreign, go back, realize you forgot the context or to actually read so you end up re reading the whole paragraph. But this time, the effort to concentrate takes the soul out of your body. And that’s how you spend a full workday reading a one page document, while feeling burnt out.
You don’t have limited memory, you have limited attention span. Stop telling yourself you have bad memory and force yourself to put more effort into taking in info and not just passing over it. Things like names are a good example. I used to always say “I’m terrible at remembering names”. But I also wasn’t really trying. I was leaning on that phrase as a crutch. When I started putting concentrated effort in, I found that suddenly I was able to learn and remember tons of names.
Another trick is to keep constant To-Do lists of various time frames. Like one for today, this week, this month. Put things in the appropriate list based on urgency and then check the list whenever you’re unsure of what you need to do. Always put things on the list immediately. Use tools to make you’re life more manageable. Don’t lean on “well I have ADHD so this is just how I am, oh shucks”. You can manage these things, it just takes time and effort to learn how.
I mean, I was only officially diagnosed at age 9 and have received numerous forms of treatment and therapy my whole life. But sure, shit on the guy trying to give you some advice that they learned themselves.
This is why I hate all you self-diagnosed twats. You don’t want solutions, you just want something to lean on and point to as justification for your treatable and manageable behaviours. But nope “lol I’m just quirky!”
Grow up and take responsibility for your own actions and stop acting like some mysterious hand is hovering above you controlling you instead. You’ll actually find that many of the things you “couldn’t” do, you in fact, can. You’re your own worst enemy and you don’t see it.
You’re coming across as if you’re saying that all anyone with ADHD has to do is try harder and their symptoms will be gone.
I would like to imagine that you’re actually trying to say that there are strategies that can help with improving the symptoms of ADHD and that finding and doing ones best to employ these strategies is more productive than just complaining about these symptoms.
Unfortunately though, ADHD is a chronic neurodevelopmental condition which is characterised by its associated symptoms. These symptoms will never disappear as a result of ‘trying harder’. If that were the case then the diagnosis of ADHD wouldn’t exist.
Simply telling someone with ADHD to put more effort in is insulting and can be quite hurtful.
It is also unhelpful to single out those who might be awaiting diagnosis as ‘self-diagnosed twats’. Since you were quite young when you were diagnosed it’s understandable that you likely do not know what it’s like to go through the diagnostic process as an adult. The constant self doubt and imposter syndrome that nags away at you while at the same time you know that the symptom list reads like a brutally honest biography. Having others look down on you just because you haven’t yet received the diagnosis yet is very hurtful, unfair, and unnecessary.
I use joplin and like it. Before I used Google keep but wanted something non Google. There are a ton of features that are not for my use case but they don’t get in the way of the core functionality of taking notes and making todo lists
I back it up to Dropbox and it syncs from there to my other devices. So I guess free tier unless you consider that self host. I don’t see any features hidden behind a paywall though
I am using logSec, which has a lot of the same features and is Foss. I am primarily using the mobile app; and my mine gripe is not being able to drag around the nodes in the graph. Think it works fine in the desktop version.
Been using it for years but now trapped in a constant state of trying to improve the organization. Every time I think I’ve got it structured logically, I find some way I could have done better.
I’ve been doing tags on files in a single folder. Ever note in the same folder. Notes get catagory tags. Doesnt match a catagory? New catagory. Its very simple and doesnt side track me with organisation as much
This what I use! I’ve been using Obsidian for years now! There is something really nice about taking notes on a book and then always having those notes available. It’s even better for school since a lot of stuff is repeatedly covered in classes.
As much as I’d love to get into obsidian, it being non-open source and having a restrictive license makes it unavailable for me. I would love to use it to keep track of information for work but the license prohibits that without a subscription.
One trick I use for that is to say it out loud, so I can access it in my echoic memory. Echoic memory doesn’t last very long, but sometimes long enough!
Occasionally, I find that I screw up the order of the numbers at some point between reading them and using them, then I’m just repeating a bunch of meaningless digits to myself for no reason.
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