why do i relate to like every adhd meme?

I’m certain my wife is ADHD, undiagnosed.

One thing she does is constantly buy storage containers of all shapes and sizes to organise her insanely disorganised world.

All this has achieved is an insane amount of forgotten storage containers in the house and we have no idea what’s in any of them.

And yes, she once attempted to buy a giant storage unit to store her storage containers.

Whenever I see a ADHD meme I wonder if I have it because every single time it’s about something I do.

Hey wait. I do this and I'm not...

... Oh. Never mind.

I'm kinda weird in that I'm very text-oriented rather than visual-oriented, and this even results in a preference for keyboard over mouse, if I can't hotkey a thing by god I will go get a tool that will let me hotkey it, etc. As such, I type everything up in a notes app that syncs between my phone and PC. Also, while I do sometimes bookmark things, I often forget that I have so most things I find again just by remembering what I searched for last time when I find it.

I do create screenshots and screen cuts using PickPick and auto-save turned on - it is better than any AI bases self-survivalence tool

i have an amazing solution for this, instead of screenshotting, i save it in txt (type it out) so that later when i have a self hosted LLM assistant, i can send all the shit ive compiled till now, and ask for movies/ songs/ or any article i saved and i can just do a semantic search through it. planning to make an open source tool for this but not too good at ML

In the immediate future, the screenshot archive becomes unmanageable.

In the long term future, it becomes the modern equivalent of what your parents and grandparents got out of keeping a scrapbook or photo album.

I've been chronically online since 1997. Going through a scrap folder which I held onto when decommissioning an old PC or phone brings back all kinds of memories. I even find that noting the changes in my meme taste can be really useful for identifying points where I've grown as a person. That, in turn, leads to reprocessing old memories and identifying ways in which I brought something to the table which facilitated some of my own bad experiences. That helps me heal.

Tabs. I need more open tabs. Currently at 67.

Stop attacking me!

Then you forget or misremember the name of the site or idea, and it’s just lost in a sea of broken dreams.

You know what moment brings me true joy?

Whenever I accidentally close my main browser window but have a second window open so that the browser forgets all my open tabs.

That's when I'm able to live in bliss for a few days.

Wow. It's not just me? Is there a term for "fear of losing ideas"?

Move your notes into a note taking app, like Obsidian, or Logseq. It's a lot easier to expand on any ideas or just reflect on them.

You also get a node graph which is fun to look at.

Backup your bookmarks and then delete all of them. The backup is for peace of mind "just in case I ever need one of them" (you won't)

From my screenshots folder (Psycho-Pass Episode 2).

Not just screenshots. I have literally hundred thousand photos of which about 50% are neatly in the correct folders and the rest are a complete mess that I don't even want to look at. If I spent like 5 minutes each day organizing them I'd sort it out in no time but I just can't get myself doing it.

Saving this

Jokes on you, I just keep tab groups on my phone. Only 3 groups of 500 tabs are hanging out and it's it's own overwhelming problem...

I just woke up and I'm being called out like this?

Updated a browser and lost ten years of plans and designs

This is great. I'm saving this.

Did it unconsciously.

Fortunately the web ui doesn’t tell me how many bookmarks I have.

Ouch, this hit hard.

This might be one of the most hurtful things here I've seen 😭

I have many notebooks. They range from pocket sized to 8" x 5" when they're for ideas. I'll occasionally use larger ones for other things, but I want to take down my thoughts quickly, and I really only want the essence of them, so I write in references to other things, images, and a short phrase to title it for context

The nice thing is I've got almost 2 decades of notebooks like this - they're scattered all through my things, basically by era.

And because of that, I don't need to fill or organize notebooks - every few years I'll see one I like and make it the idea book

I've gone through like 10x as many for work, but I just throw those away when they're full

This is part of why I self-host things. I have a lot of projects and project ideas, and Trello - while great for what it is - is slowly becoming enshittified, so I run a Planka instance instead. I also have a Nextcloud instance, Immich for photos, and a bunch of other things that help me stay organized. It took me a decade to figure out how to organize my homelab services and hardware, but now I have it set so all I need to do is check github/gitlab for updates and breaking changes for any particular service, log into any of my Dockge instances (all 4 of them are linked), and click the "update" button in the relevant stack. Yes, I know there are automations for that, too. One thing at a time.

I know that in the future AI will scour my screenshot folder and group everything neatly, add tags even.

Hope is a wonderful drug

Is this everyone or do I have adhd?