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I don't bookmark anything interesting anymore. If I get inspired to look at something again, I search for it.

andybak 4y ago
Yeah. I have several levels of "things I will never get around to": 1. I keep a tab open for a few days until I have 200 tabs open. I then bulk save them using OneTab and never look at that either. 2. Things I want to remain in my gaze goes in my bookmark toolbar until it scrolls off the end and is never seen again 3. I occasionally use regular bookmarks and have come to accept the fact that I never look at them (although it does give them a bump in the address bar autocomplete which sometimes helps) So - all of this is basically a sop and deep down I've just made peace with the fact that I never return to most of these things. I figure if it's important enough I'll just remember it and search for it.
- marmetio 4y ago
  I resist doing any of that in the first place because it's just giving in to an unhealthy habit. The time and attention I spent cataloging was supposed to be for something else.
  - andybak 4y ago
    This is the quickest way I can get round indecision. Do I need this? Not sure... One click to stop worrying about it and move on. I certainly strive to do no cataloguing or sorting of this stuff. That was an early valuable lesson I learned (even before getting diagnosed)
    - marmetio 4y ago
      The click is cataloging.
      - andybak 4y ago
        You are technically correct.
        marmetio 4y ago
        What's important is that it's reinforcing a bad habit.
        andybak 4y ago
        The "bad habit" is poor impulse control and failure to control focus. That's something that is so central to ADHD that all I can ever really hope to do is mitigate it. Sometimes having 50 tabs open is a sign that I'm distracted and sometimes it's a sign up being really productive. All I can hope to do is make sure that the needle swings to the latter more often than the former and that I have a good strategy to recover when it doesn't.
        marmetio 4y ago
        I was coached+medicated out of doing the same thing.

Yeah. I have several levels of "things I will never get around to": 1. I keep a tab open for a few days until I have 200 tabs open. I then bulk save them using OneTab and never look at that either. 2. Things I want to remain in my gaze goes in my bookmark toolbar until it scrolls off the end and is never seen again 3. I occasionally use regular bookmarks and have come to accept the fact that I never look at them (although it does give them a bump in the address bar autocomplete which sometimes helps) So - all of this is basically a sop and deep down I've just made peace with the fact that I never return to most of these things. I figure if it's important enough I'll just remember it and search for it.

marmetio 4y ago
I resist doing any of that in the first place because it's just giving in to an unhealthy habit. The time and attention I spent cataloging was supposed to be for something else.
- andybak 4y ago
  This is the quickest way I can get round indecision. Do I need this? Not sure... One click to stop worrying about it and move on. I certainly strive to do no cataloguing or sorting of this stuff. That was an early valuable lesson I learned (even before getting diagnosed)
  - marmetio 4y ago
    The click is cataloging.
    - andybak 4y ago
      You are technically correct.
      - marmetio 4y ago
        What's important is that it's reinforcing a bad habit.
        andybak 4y ago
        The "bad habit" is poor impulse control and failure to control focus. That's something that is so central to ADHD that all I can ever really hope to do is mitigate it. Sometimes having 50 tabs open is a sign that I'm distracted and sometimes it's a sign up being really productive. All I can hope to do is make sure that the needle swings to the latter more often than the former and that I have a good strategy to recover when it doesn't.
        marmetio 4y ago
        I was coached+medicated out of doing the same thing.