Bold of any of them to assume I'll remember there was an "it" to remember in the first place. My best offer is a vague sense that I've forgotten something.
A vague sense of having forgotten something .. that's got to be true for ADHD and non-ADHD alike!
I always trust that feeling, what's the downside to not doing so, other than time?
I keep finding old notebooks, where i started writing stuff on the first page.
Just to never ever touch it again, but find it again years later and go "ooooh, i wrote this?"
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 <double finger guns>
Google Assistant or Siri are awesome for this. I just hold down a button on my phone or watch and then say, “Remind me <when> about <what>.”
My wife who is a saint and very patient encouraged me to do this enough times that it’s becoming a habit.
I’m so sick of my wife forgetting to do things (like take the medication that if she misses a dose it ruins her entire next day and sets off a ripple of migraines that can last a week) that I’ve just started stealing her phone to put in reminders.
If she has trouble remembering if she's taken the meds, I highly recommend TimerCaps. They are a pill bottle lid that tells you how long it's been since the bottle was opened.
We have several at my house-- I can check and see if my partner has drugged the dog or if I've taken my ADHD meds. My partner can also see if I've taken my meds.
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
Bold of you to assume I can read my own handwriting.
I text myself, because I (almost) always know where my phone is
I use discord, its free. Made a server with only myself. I have so many channels that are all lists of things, a foods-I-like channel is helpful for when I am hungry but don't remember what I like at the moment.
I have my own personal server as well. I send myself links all the time and it means I can upload 1 image and then just send the link around which is great for bad internet
"I'll remember", I say, not because I'll remember, but because any form of writing it down I will inevitably forget as well. I'm just trying to save myself pointless work, here.
Nothing is more frustrating than knowing you wrote something down, but not knowing where.
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.
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
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)
I clip my keys themselves to whichever thing I have to bring with me or remember.
Now to attach this to the lapel of my shirt where it belongs
Where ADHD and SelfHosted combine: I self host Trilium Notes to attempt to solve this problem. Most of the time it works.
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.
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.
Whiteboards are great for this.
Woah. How large is that whiteboard?
About 18x8 inches. Not to worry, I have a classroom-sized whiteboard as a backup.
I put a small calendar whiteboard on my wall, and any important things go on that in big letters.
Can't not see it if it's the first thing you look at upon waking up!
I say, having walked past myself in the mirror without looking literally thousands of times....
I use email Drafts sometimes for lists of things.
I will find lists from last year sometimes. No idea if I did it or not!
I have so many notepads
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How about saying you'll write it down -hey look, a distraction!- then forgetting what it was that you wanted to write down?
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You do see the community this is, yeah?
Yes, I am fully capable of being a different person: efficient, organized and methodical. I just choose not to because the opposite is so fulfilling.
Yes I write it on my notepad on my desk.
I never remember to look at it until I need to write something else. Or just throw away the page accidentally.
I've found that using a calendar app with reminders can be a great help for me. Personally I use Fossify Calendar (formerly Simple Calendar) to create reminders for myself for hours/days/months in advance. I'll never forget to do the laundry again....at least until I somehow lose access to my phone.
I live and die by my calendar. I still have the yellow version (Simple Calendar) and it works pretty great.
Note taking 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?
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????)
At this point I just admit I won't remember it
Sticky note on the door jamb
This is my partner and I constantly
Easiest way for me is writing notes on 'saved messages' on telegram. Accessible from phone app, desktop app and web.
If you write it several times in a row you are more likely to remember it.
