For what it is worth, it is useful to come to the conclusion that the brain is an awful place to store something you want to remember. It may not be a list, but I certainly remember better outside my head than inside. Developing tooling that works for you is important to coming to grips with your brain.
Everyone is different and I'd go so far to say that there's probably a HEFTY chunk of individuals that this wouldn't work for, me included.
I don't forget to do things. My brain just refuses to acknowledge that they're urgent to do.🤷♂️
My favorite strategy is literally putting crap I need to remember in my way. Remember my daughter's jacket for school? You belong in front of the door now. Need to remember making a meal? Gonna leave out a bunch of ingredients on the counter. Everybody is different, I just find that kind of stuff works for me too.
I don't know if I have adhd but I see a lot of posts that seem to have similar mannerisms to me. I find I have to have multiple ways of making lists because I will start ignoring them. I also have to focus on the most important things to do. Like constant mantras in my head to get these things done. One of them must be going through all the stuff I need to get done and prioritize the most important. I try to do this every weekend. must be done. must be done. I have to like leverage obsesive thought.
I’m still trying to find what works. I have about 5 different methods, some electronic, some not, and I never use one regularly because I forget.
I really want to find one that I stick to :(
I use a self hosted version of Trello for work and a combination of hand written notes. Unless I make a Trello note for it that thing may as well not exist. Immediately leaves my mind after. I try to capture the lighting in a bottle by taking enough notes to mean something later. I undercut myself with short cryptic notes sometimes, but usually it is enough to spark my brain back to what I was thinking.
Self hosted version is focal board, for the tech enthusiast.
TO-DO list:
- Make TO-DO list
- Don't do anything on the TO-DO list
- Realise step 2 is paradoxical because I'm already making the TO-DO list
- Read the entire Wikipedia page about paradoxes
The ironic thing is that when I write it down, then I remember it without needing the list (I can see the note in my head), but if I don't write it down, I forget it. It's not exactly a list, but my home and office spaces are littered with post-it notes.
It's no surprise that I'm a visual person.
This is a real strategy for overwhelmed neurotypicals too, something about taking an explicit step to memoize the info convinces the brain to add a bookmark.
Exactly. To do lists only work when you are able to fixate on them, otherwise they're as good as scrap
Is it just me or is this missing one TO DO?
Counted from the top? I've done several times now and it looks and sounds good to me.🤷♂️
I guess it works if you include the TODO in "TO DO List", which i also didn't include at first.
I've spent WAY too much time today listening to this theme song and counting the To dos and I still cannot hear more than 7. If you're counting 8 then maybe our ears are just on different wavelengths.🤣
You mean "search for and compare various apps and websites for managing to do lists, to find the perfect one of my needs"? Right away!
Checkout bullet journaling. Its a system for keeping yourists from becoming a doom pile of lists. But you mostly make the system yourself works for me since its pretty flexible. My work life would be fucked without it.
One best practice among many for ND people. The meds help the most lol.
My day at work starts with my browser folder that pulls up daily checks then I start my to-do list right after. If not, I'm floundering, getting of task on other things, or browsing lol.
Some people will give the most common advice and then get pissy when someone says that isn't helpful for them.
