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Can’t you decide on a single place where you write everything down? (And habitually check it to see if you’ve forgotten something)
habitually
You do see the community this is, yeah?
More like every 5 minutes for 20h straight then forget for 2 day, then chekc it again every 3 minuted
New to the diagnosis. That’s a HARD yes from me.
Same, just started médication, no effects yet.
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.
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?”
At this point I just admit I won’t remember it
I use email Drafts sometimes for lists of things.
I will find lists from last year for sometimes. No idea if I did it or not!
Bold of you to assume I can read my own handwriting.
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.
I’ll have to think about how those might fit for us or our pets.
She doesn’t have issues remembering that she’s taken the meds, just remembering to take them. It’s very much an out of sight, out of mind thing.
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.
“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.
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
Where ADHD and SelfHosted combine: I self host Trilium Notes to attempt to solve this problem. Most of the time it works.
I have so many notepads
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.
That’s what I use Joplin for.
(Who wrote all those ToDos in my Joplin app???)
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.
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?
How about saying you’ll write it down -hey look, a distraction!- then forgetting what it was that you wanted to write down?
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
