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My limitless desire for information always gets hindered by my very limited memory.

There's nothing like the ADHD experience of going to google something and immediately forgetting what you were going to search so you have to look through your recent apps to find whatever triggered the thought, but then get distracted in the apps, then just rinse and repeat.😩

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One trick I use for that is to say it out loud, so I can access it in my echoic memory. Echoic memory doesn’t last very long, but sometimes long enough!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I need to remember a string of numbers... Yup just repeat it to myself over and over or I'll forget within a minute lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Occasionally, I find that I screw up the order of the numbers at some point between reading them and using them, then I'm just repeating a bunch of meaningless digits to myself for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't remind me, I have to try really really hard to make sure they're still in the right order if it's more then like 5 numbers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel you, but the rest of the office be like

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the beautiful thing... you get to enjoy learning something then you'll forget it and get to enjoy learning it again!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the time, I start the re-learning process, only for my long-term memory to kick-in halfway through, and then I get annoyed because I "oh, I've read all of this before, it's boring now"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You know the next sentence, but you don't understand the concept. You're bored of the familiar text, so you skip a few sentences, find out they are completely foreign, go back, realize you forgot the context or to actually read so you end up re reading the whole paragraph. But this time, the effort to concentrate takes the soul out of your body. And that's how you spend a full workday reading a one page document, while feeling burnt out.

And I'm not working again....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You could try something like Obsidian to use as a second brain for storing information for later reference.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

still wishing for a FOS alternative that's just as good : (

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I got ya. Try Anytype (https://anytype.io/).

(not affiliated, just a fan)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This looks exciting! Big learning curve though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What's the difference between Logseq and Anytype? And how do both compare to Joplin?

So far I have been using Logseq and find it good but a little too complicated and somehow bland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I am using logSec, which has a lot of the same features and is Foss. I am primarily using the mobile app; and my mine gripe is not being able to drag around the nodes in the graph. Think it works fine in the desktop version.