ADHD memes

This is one of the things that smart phones have done for me.

I may not remember I wrote it down, but I will remember where because it's in the notes app on my smart phone.

That being said, this obviously still doesn't really solve anything if I don't even remember there was something to be written down.

And it creates a brand new problem if I do remember because then I get caught up scrolling through notes trying to figure out what they mean, if I still need them, and lamenting that I didn't remember to check notes for these other things back then.

My Notepad++ has 32 tabs open with notes, some I don't even remember what they're for.

Bold of you to assume I thought of having something to take notes on handy when I need to take notes....

One white legal pad next to my desk, one pocket notebook and travel pen in my pocket. Have a thought or idea, write it down. Every Saturday I type all those notes into a running Google doc for the year and then put a check mark next to it on the paper.

I have a doc for every year. I regularly go back and read though them starting with the most current year and working back. If something is completed or used in a project I use the mark through function on that entry so it can still be read in case it could be helpful again but to signify that I've used it.

It's not a perfect system but it's helped me a ton.

Several times in my office notes i write something partially during a meeting, and end up blanking out later on what I meant to finish it with

This is why I carry a pen and little pocket notebook. And I keep all my pocket stuff in the same place every night before bed. Can't (usually) lose anything that way

I have a super power. If I was paying attention and not just in my own head ignoring you as you talk, I can repeat most conversations word for word for up to a day. And I can easily give a detailed summary for up to a month.

Acting on any of these memories is the challenge. The executive disfunction is the crippling part.

That and paying attention in the first place.

That said, I can also remember where I left off when I get distracted. This helps but not much.

Never leave the kitchen while cooking, unless you want to eat charcoal or burn down your house. Especially if your laptop or TV is on, or to check your phone.

Say what you want to remember to yourself 20 times in a row. This pushes it into long-term memory. It helps.

Stacks and stacks of notes I'll never reference again.

This morning at work i turned on a water valve to fill a big tub of water that would take 15 minutes to fill. I ran across the room to grab my notebook and pen to remind myself. While running to get the pen i found some of my tools out of place as always and started to arranged them. In those two seconds I forgot the notebook and the water, I arranged the tools and left.

When I come back an hour later the water is overflowing and flooding the room.

This is my life, getting distracted by butterflies and forgetting everything

Thank God for Trello. Since I started using it about a year ago, anything I put in there gets done. Also I found out that if you put a Party Popper (🎉) emoji in the title of a list, then whenever you pick up a task and move it to the next stage it blows confetti all over the screen. Yay! pat on the head dopamine 😁 Who's a good boy? I'm a good boy that's who!

Deal with it everyday. It's funny and I hate it.

If it’s something important and that I need to remember that day, I still write it on the back of my hand. If it’s for later, it goes into my calendar with a reminder a week out, a day out and at time to leave.

I just picked a couple apps. Obsidian is a good one, but you have to want to open it because there's no widgets. So my ideas go there. But I also have an open source app from F-Droid simply called Tasks that has a really sleek homescreen widget.

Now every time I open my phone those unchecked tasks taunt me and I MUST check them off. If I don't because I'm being lazy it starts to eat at me that there's an unchecked overdue task. Must. Do. Dishes.

I'll remember this advice

You'll see it in a moment of clarity, 2 weeks later when you walk past the whiteboard you bought a few months ago to "finally get your shit together"

I just bought a handle for a set of pans with removable handles because I was 100% sure I had bought the pan and needed the handle. Now I have two panless handles.

i set reminders, countdowns, put everything in my calendar, i'd be lost without them

The post it/note/reminder/calendar entry has no power either

Pen and paper notebook. One for Home and one for work. I use notes on my phone when I don't have my notebook and copy them later on. Nobody at work knows that I have terrible short term memory because I "remember", checks notes, everything.

I'm going to write it down but just in a different place this time and I'll abbreviated things and write super fast. It's good though I'm making a mental note that I'm doing things a little different this time but at least I'm writing it down. Has anyone seen my glasses? Shit I really need to get glasses, I don't think I rescheduled that optometry appt. Does anyone else smell bacon. I smell bacon right now.

my solutions so far
1 set a reminder with notification, especially if it's more than a few days out
2 write on the day to-dos on my wrist, (if i write it on my palm, i forget and wash it off usually)

Lol my current morning 🤣

Sometime I forget that I can even write.

No the adhd demon is the guy that makes you forget

The adhd lady tells you to write it down

But you have to actually put it on a good place and for that the adhd demon is actually quite dope

But the adhd lady can be a bitch and tell you too much to write down

Then you need the adhd bro and it is also easy for that part to go overboard and start eating cereal for food even though you need normal food with nutrients

For that you have the adhd fruits, they do great barbershop explanations but suck at understanding when to take a breather so it can get quite hectic but for that there's amphetamines