• ALQ
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    405 months ago

    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.

  • kamenLady.
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    5 months ago

    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?”

  • @recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    305 months ago

    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.

  • TheRealKuni
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    235 months ago

    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.

    • @Monument
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      84 months ago

      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.

      • @grysbok
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        34 months ago

        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.

        • @Monument
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          34 months ago

          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.

  • @huginn@feddit.it
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    205 months ago

    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

    • @Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      95 months ago

      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.

      • @RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        55 months ago

        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

  • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    135 months ago

    “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.

  • @cmrn@lemmy.world
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    125 months ago

    Nothing is more frustrating than knowing you wrote something down, but not knowing where.

    • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      105 months ago

      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.

    • @GlenRambo@jlai.lu
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      64 months ago

      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
  • @Zink@programming.dev
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    115 months ago

    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.

  • @grysbok
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    114 months ago

    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.

  • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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    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)

  • @FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
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    115 months ago

    Where ADHD and SelfHosted combine: I self host Trilium Notes to attempt to solve this problem. Most of the time it works.