I feel this and I’m not adhdt(to my knowledge)
Oh man I think about this a lot. I have some thoughts.
- The more complicated of a system, the less likely you are to use it.
- Complicated systems are self defeating.
- A system you use is always better than a perfect system you don’t.
I try to make notes about where my previous notes are when I make new ones so I don’t lose them.
I try to keep one or two physical ways to jot things down. I use a boogie board and a pocket journal. I use a disposable flimsy one. The temporary look of it helps me not treat it as some perfect log book that needs a perfect system. Avoid any and all “bullet journaling” tips lol. That’s a road to complexity. My system is:
- If I need to remember something, I write it down.
- If I don’t need to remember it anymore, I cross it out. If a page has nothing I need to remember and no real room for new still, I rip it out.
For digital notes I use Google Keep on my phone and an Obsidian Workplace in a synced folder for Google Drive. I DO NOT stress about making perfectly organized Obsidian documents that link to each other. I just write what I need as I need it. My Obsidian stuff is a little more organized but I sort of haven’t used it in a while.
All forms of this is your way of communicating with your future self and how your future self will look for messages from you. Viewing it like this helps make it clear what sort of things you need to keep track of and also sort of sounds cool so it makes it exciting.
My life hack for that is to just never close any tabs.
(Reboots)
Browser: There are 496 tabs in your previous session. Are you sure you want to restore?
Me: Did I stutter?
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I want an extension that simply saves every page I open into a new page in a specific OneNote notebook. Yea, most would be crap, but the storage is trivial, and the search capability would be awesome.
Plus it would sort of serve as my own timeline.
I have a local daemon and browser extension doing something like that on my desktop machines.
In case you’d like to do the same, here are some time savers:
- More of a heads up but storage requirement will never be trivial, even with fs compression. Browsers limit resource cache for a reason.
- Unless OneNote has some kind of page nesting functionality beyond the usual outline/TOC tagging, typical browser-history population and web page length can lead to an infinitely-scrolling, memory eating, difficult to use note.
- It is easier to lean on existing browser and filesystem functionality by printing to PDF and optionally attaching wherever (such as onenote) for a number of reasons.
- Visual consistency of the print render will vary, but the PDF approach uses existing render in situ and is the only page snapshot commonly supported by progressive web applications.
Besides PDF, the most consistent local full-page, full-asset save I’ve found is the .archive format. It’s used in the Safari browser for local saving and is the basis for features like “Add to reading list.” Archive appears to be something like a zipped wget directory but includes additional session state information for future page recreation. I save both PDF and Archive formats and browse using filesystem rather than another app like onenote.
If you’re on Windows, this appears to be the aim of their Recall feature. Just be aware that it (and really that entire operating system) comes with a lot of privacy-related concerns.
Edit: mention .archive format
Storing web pages (single pages, no attached videos or anything) in OneNote is trivial storage. After 15 years now, my biggest notebook is 4 gigs or so.
Having it go into any other note taking app would work too, Notion, etc.
I want the text content, so it’s searchable.
I’ve used ArchiveBox a bit, maybe I need to setup some automation into it.
Tab Stash?
Tab Stash only saves the links.
Right now I save pages directly to OneNote on Android, and simply copy/paste the page content on desktop.
This retains the page content, so it’s searchable later.
TFW one or more of those tabs leaks memory, so your browser crashes every few hours even with 64GB of RAM.
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Anyone else keep those screenshots they accidentally take of their home screen because they know they’ll drunkenly accidentally delete an icon on their home screen and have no idea what icon is missing because they never use it but they e grown accustomed to it and want it back the way it was?
Just me?
I rearrange my icons all the time thinking “no this will be more efficient” and I just never really know where everything is.
Chaos.
That feeling of I know there used to be a specific app where this empty space is but I can’t remeber which one has driven me crazy a few times, now a days I just lock the home screen so it can’t be accidentally changed
Nope, I don’t use the home screen - it’s such a terrible idea.
I use folders on every device*, using the same structure, that way all software/tools are categorized the same though they’re different on each OS.
*Except iOS because it sucks from a customization standpoint.
Gross.
For PC I use my launchers. For phone I have ~12 apps plus a weather widget on on screen, then device diagnostics and a Spotify widget on the next.
My whole “apps” folder on android, however, is 8 folders (Google, Games, Utilities, Info, Market, etc)
Minimizes interaction for most used apps. Your process would require two taps to use your most used apps. 🤢
I have never drunkenly deleted an icon … So, no
Probably about 50% of the recipe pages that I have bookmarked aren’t even online any more.
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I have 1192 tabs open in my mobile browser. I hope, I read all those articles in this lifetime.
Before, I was able to read so much. I finished Count of Montecristo in 10 days. Nowadays, I can’t even read more than 3 pages a day.
Pinterest. My boards are full of diy project ideas and recipes that I will never look at again, but I keep clicking and saving.
If and when you get around to looking at it, you’ll love everything you see. A mood hack I discovered is to look at saved posts in a random order, because I forget about everything, so it’s like a perfectly curated feed.
You might want to consider a one-in-one-out policy.
I hope I put the right tags or keywords in the thing that I save cause that’s the only way I’m ever finding it again
I’ve started browsing my bookmarks instead of browsing sociao media for this reason
And loose that ebaumsworld video!?
I don’t have ADHD but this is 100 % me 😁
Sometimes I’m even relieved when my browser crashes and all open tabs are lost 💀
I’ve got 19,347 links saved in my current Read Later app. How often do I actually open it to get back to something? At most once a month for one thing, usually less.
I’d recommend you to start cleaning it up, I used to let these lists grow until one day I decided to clean them up, sadly a lot of the links got expired or the companies running those websites got shut down 😞
which app?
I’ve hit the limit on safari tabs on my phone multiple times. When you open something in a new tab at that point, it just cannibalizes a tab you haven’t visited recently, but you can use the back button to find out what it was.
