I better bookmark this post

I'm beginning to suspect I have an undiagnosed problem

The most recent thing I remember losing is a website/blog explaining how video encoding works, and algorithm of different encodings; written by someone who has written different implementations in rust. It has really good explainations that I just skimmed through, bookmarked it, then lost it. If the other ADHD folks have ever seen something like that, please let me know, I'll have to re-add it for that one day.

Facts lol 😂

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

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.

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.

I really appreciate this viewpoint. Most of the satisfaction I get is from bookmarking and organizing my bookmarks. That being said, I routinely go through my bookmarks and revisit things.

Nah, you just need to become the other kind of ADHD.

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.

OOF

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
- 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 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

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?

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
- Damn, that a lot of can kicking you just got off the todo list.

Screenshotting and bookmarking is the equivalent of a SuperLike. It’s a badge of honour.

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

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.

You could go through it and screenshot the interesting parts

Aye i will when I get a chance

I really need to set myself up on LinkWarden or linkding; it would solve at least 95% of this problem and my massive tab problem as well

And this is the sole reason for my MyMind subscription. 10% interesting maker projects, 90% funny memes and comics.

a lot of things neurodivergents do, neurotypicals do too.
it's the intensity and obssession that differentiates it sometimes.