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I fucking suck at keeping track on tasks and life stuff (dunno if its ADHD or some anxiety shit). Is there any tool that could be a life changer and bring be back from valley of despair....
I am so tiered boss...:(
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>>109937348
I tried to get help for it and the psychiatrist was like 'you know in a computer when you have too many windows open, and it slows down? That's all it is' and he didn't help me at all.
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>>109937365
rape your psychiatrist it'll clear the brain fog
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can't get meds for it?
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>>109937365
Well, he could have tried giving you a stimulant. That's basically the only thing that really works.
Some other things which can help:
>don't eat anything sugary, especially to start the day
>burn around 100 calories through exercise at the start of the day
>eat more protein
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>>109937400
Yeah, being active and avoiding eating oversaturated trash helps a lot to get through the day. But I still get those fucking anxiety attacks from random triggers.
Voices in my head can't leave me at peace (no scizo, just overthinking)
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>>109937365
When you have an instance of Chrome with too many tabs open, thoughbeit
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>>109937348
Try listening to raining videos while doing stuff. I have adhd and can hardly concentrate on any one task, but listening to rain for like 10min improves my focus a lot.
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>>109937496
I should try. I did listen to some background drum&bass music with no lyrics. It definitely made tasks seem less boring and tedious
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>>109937520
But going back to my initial problem. I need some system to track life goals, and task that bring me closer to them (Like learning new language, acquiring new skills and so on...).
I was wondering if I should use something like Notion (I think you cal build a page with Birdseye view on current projects), other software, or just stick to pen and paper?
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>>109937573
Overplanning and massive context won't do you any good, especially if prone to overthinking and anxiety. Set a goal and then
>figure out the smallest possible next step
>write it on paper
>execute that step
>cross it over
>repeat until goal is achieved
That'll give you a stream of rewarding dopamine hits while making actual progress.
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>>109937665
Thanks! But what is the next step after that? Just keeping a list of small tasks per project and do them one at a time?
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>>109937695
You know where the supermarket is but you don't have to plan every step to get there beforehand. You learn to walk instead.

Simpler the better. Lists are volatile and bound to change. Not an absolute rule, just trying to communicate some view.
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>>109937829
And also pen & paper ftw. Helps me visualize the problems at hand and gives some persistency to thoughts allowing offloading them from working memory. Fuck remembering anything, if it's important and repeating it'll grind it's way into muscle memory.
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>>109937348
I
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>>109937348
Low dopamine
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G
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>>109937348
low test
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>>109937927
G
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>>109937365
Is your psychiatrist female? Rape her.
Is your psychiatrist male? Rape him.
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S25 ultra. Just scribble with pen. You need something thats quick note taking.
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>>109940082
>Just scribble with pen. You need something thats quick note taking.
I'm certain you can do this with a $1 pocket notepad.
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amphetamines are the only thing that actually works but they also fucking suck
it iz what it iz
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>>109940138
Then you have carry a book and pen. That gets lazy for human mind. Phone is an extension of human body at this point. Plus you dont have to carry and arrange
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Look into the GTD philosophy. If you are a linux nerd try task warrior.

I've been using uncensored qwen 27b as a therapist for my own adhd and jealousy issues and seeding it with actual therapy books so it doesn't invent techniques and bs when I talk to it. It's helping me and doesn't cost $200 a session.
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>>109937365
https://youtu.be/kWnzggoduNo&t=1691
your psychiatrist be like
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>>109937365
it's not gonna fix you but you might gain some insight into how your body works:
1. drop ALL sugar, replace with sweetener if necessary(it's not bad once you get used to it)
2. drop all other stimulants but the prescribed ones if you have them (cocoa/70%+ dark chocolate is fine in moderation)
3. get into caloric deficit for a few days
4. make a few test days with sugar/coffee(if you drink)/whatever else and focus on your mood/energy
you'll find that you're less tired without sugar and less hyperactive
you'll quickly find the boundary between the sugar giving you energy and actively sapping it from overload
the coffee/other part is unnecessary but worth testing if you were dependent on it so far
as for healthy habits, well, you've got to start somewhere - the key is using your vision, putting it in plain sight, whatever it is, a notebook maybe. at the end of the day, put it somewhere you'll definitely 100% notice the next day
and for the love of god don't hop on the computer/phone in the morning. plan what you're going to do first with an ending, even if you fail repeatedly at fulfilling it.
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>>109937348
Use obsidian like the CEO of obsidian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq3R3uS0sQ4

Stephango’s (Kipano, Obsidian CEO) Obsidian vault template emphasizes speed, laziness, minimal structure, heavy linking, and properties over folders. It turns a seemingly chaotic collection of notes into a flexible personal knowledge network.

Core Philosophy
File over app: Everything lives as plain Markdown files in a folder. The system outlasts any specific software.
Minimal folders / root-first: Most personal notes (journals, essays, evergreen notes) live in the vault root. Folders create overhead and force artificial categorization when ideas span multiple areas. The downloadable vault includes temporary “Notes” and “Categories” folders only for clarity—move their contents to the root and delete them.
Organization via properties + links, not folders: Use YAML properties (especially a categories property) and heavy internal linking. Templates pre-populate useful properties so you can capture quickly and find/filter later.


Linking: Aggressively link the first mention of anything (people, movies, quotes, places, ideas). This builds a navigable network over time and turns fleeting mentions into future note opportunities. Use backlinks and the graph to traverse connections.
Properties as links: Prefer linking values inside properties (e.g., [[Aisha]] instead of plain text)
Evergreen notes: Capture reusable insights/ideas as first-class objects you can reference repeatedly.
Bases: Category notes (or dedicated Base files) show dynamic tables of related notes (all meetings, all rated items, all evergreen notes, etc.).

Recommended Rhythm (from Steph’s blog)
Daily: Capture thoughts, journal entries, or events as unique notes. Link first mentions. Optionally use the daily note mainly as a hub that other notes point to via creation date.
Every few days: Review recent notes and compile/summarize the most interesting ideas into higher-level notes.
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>>109942430
yea chatgpt has pages now so im not doing all that
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>>109937348
Unironically the bullet journal
Don't be an autist about it like influencers on jewtube, just take the pieces of the method that make sense and drop the rest
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>>109937348
amphetamines
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>>109937400
>>109937441
I've tried tons of meds and they don't do much for me

>don't eat anything sugary, especially to start the day
>burn around 100 calories through exercise at the start of the day
>eat more protein

how do these help?
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>>109943717
Regular exercise has benefits beyond burning calories
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>>109937466
I unironically have between 1000-2000 tabs open at any given time, and that is per browser profile, and I have like 12 profiles in each browser, and I have multiple browsers installed

How do I stop doing this?

I've tried using tab groups/stacks, workspaces (what it's called on vivaldi), bookmarks (though a lack of a way to share by bookmarks across all my profiles even within the same browser is a major obstacle, if anybody knows how to do that in Vivaldi, let me know), etc, and I still just manage to accrue way more new tabs within a day or even an hour then I can close.
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>>109937348
vim tasks.md
use your adhd to learn all the keybinds
simplicity will force you to focus
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Anyone know of good site blocking extension/tools?

As in, if I want to focus on a task, blocking specific websites?

I know there's like a billion extensions that do that, but I have some pretty specific needs for such a tool: I need to be able to enable it whenever I want, rather then have it scheduled for specific times of day. I also need to be able to block or whitelist specific urls/domains within the same site.

For example, I might need https://x.com/home blocked, or all of twitter, EXCEPT for anything that's on my own profile, so say anything https://x.com/username/* , where * is any subsequent string of characters, would specifically be whitelisted.

Are there any that can do that?
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Make a list of what you need to do and then do it
You don't need more
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>>109937348
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>>109942625
>Unironically the bullet journal

What is this? I've been googling it and looking at different links for like 30 minutes and I'm still not even sure what it is in a basic sense and how it differs from any other type of journal
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>>109944127
It's just a simple and time tested method of keeping track of tasks and the like
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>>109937348
Smoke meth
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>>109944447
Okay, and that would be?

Again, I've been googling it and none of the pages I have clicked actually explains what a bullet journal is and what makes it different from any other journal type
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>>109937348
If you play the Sims game, you need to fill up multiple meters, like hunger, hygiene, social interaction, and sleeping.
Do all that first.
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>>109944506
thelazygeniuscollective dot com slash blog slash how-to-bullet-journal
Is an okay rundown, you can skip the sections on signifiers, embellishments, and collections, and you don't need to read anything after the section on threading
It's meant to be a simple and extensible system
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Lisdexamphetamine.
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>>109937348
I find writing in my everything.txt file helps keep me grounded. Ihave my entire life in here, most of the time just using it as 'RAM' ie. my chaotic thoughts i just need to dump somewhere.
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Go for a swim in the morning, eat a fat-protein rich brrakfast in the morning as well.
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>>109940802
>seeding it with actual therapy books
How?
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The first line treatment is amphetamines. These work for 90% of cases, literally. Your next, non-stimulant option is something like Wellbutrin, or Atomoxotine.

ADHD -- if youre at all intelligent -- is a blood curse. It's like being trapped in a body and mind that refuse to obey you. You could want to/need to do X task, but your literal biology decides it's not novel enough to just "do" like others do. Consciously, you are fully aware of the need to complete X task, but it's like you're incapable of summoning the action to do so. And all the while a very rational part of your mind tortures you for "being like this"

If you have goals or aspirations, you can still accomplish these things -- it will take 3x the effort tho.
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>>109946323
llama.cpp supports attaching pdfs as images. But you can use OCR / extract ranges of the book and paste it into the engine, then say "Roleplay as a cognative behavioral therapist using the techniques mentioned in that authoritative source: [type your problems here]"

if you just info dump "I'm sad and want to die what do I do" the results will be useless you have to guide it.

Also you should read the actual books ontop of using the llm. It forces you to be more introspective about what you're doing when your adhd procrastination kicks in
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>>109937348
I made an app where I give it a .txt file of every reminder I want throughout the day and my phone shouts at me to do it. Its handy for even just remembering to get up from my desk and stretch or take a break
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>>109946424
>The first line treatment is amphetamines. These work for 90% of cases, literally. Your next, non-stimulant option is something like Wellbutrin, or Atomoxotine.

I've tried Methylphenidate, Adderall, Strattera, Vyvanse, I think Concerta, Mydayis, and I'm first trying Wellbutrin now (this is the second day I'm taking it)

At best, some of those will help me hyperfocus on a task, but still not control what it is I get focused on, so it's only barely more effective at allowing me to get things done then being unmedicated is. And most of these I felt made zero difference at all, aside from appetite suppressance

>>109944556
That was one of the articles I looked at and I couldn't follow it, it feels like 90% of what it says there is fluff and I can't find the 10% of the article's text that actually tells me what the fuck bullet journaling actually is and how to do it
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>>109937573
just vibe code it bro. make a priority matrix, each task Importance*0.5, Urgency*0.3, Task priority*0.2, assign each a number on pre-defined scale (1-5;1-10) then rank them. cut the noise at all costs.
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>>109937348
Adhd is a made up "mental disease" by Jews. It's used for an excuse new-weds to have sex in bed for their foot fetish fantasies meanwhile their children's brain rot with early porn introduction and other gen-z skibidi nonsense, causing them to underdevelop their prefrontal cortex. Then we give them amphetamines (as some other guy said) which is literally a drug. ADHD doesn't exist. I'm diagnosed with it and I can function very well. I can study, I can keep track of things. Notion and Obsidian are productivity porn. Write things you have to complete to a paper, sit down, remove everything else, lock yourself into the room if you need, and remember that nobody is coming to save you. Then your (((adhd))) will evaporate and you will start to function like a normal human being.
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>>109938238
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start small and let the AI drive, works 100%
>"hi claude/gpt, zero software just AI and grep, I gibe you documents you rename and archive them and remember me if there is something to be doing"
>don't give AI structure, they will create it little by little based on what is needed
>they will actually read the boring stuff, tell you if there is something you missed, make a little .md calendar for you, next time you come they will check it with current date and remind what needs to be doing
> in time they will be the one giving you motivation for the small stuff "ok if you just give me the bank statement I cross this off all of this as paid and we done" so you login get the print and give it to AI
I'm the laziest person on earth and for the first time in my life all the small stuff are sorted in time, orderly and with neat precision. No software can give you that
Of course the archive you create will start to become massive and super sensitive, ask AI how to backup it securely and privately
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>>109946910
but im sad and want to die...



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