- Lost items to find
- Tasks
- Devices to Charge
- Shopping
- Appointments
- Birthdates (for social harmony)
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A list to remember making lists.
My brain just imploded neuron by neuron as if each was a star collapsing into a black hole, leaving a desolate recursive hellscape.
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As many as you can handle, which may be one or none some days or weeks.
What I do recommend is having a context for all your lists, a lists of lists that connects these fearsome beasts into a shape that can be comprehended by an adhd/executive challenged brain, a tree formed from branches all held up by a central trunk (your list of your lists)!
Actually I think of it not as a tree anymore but rather the inverse movement, a river network of converging frivolous lists of small things joining together as tributaries to form a unified flow that combines all into itself in terms of daily executive function challenges.
A concrete example of this idea in digital form is org mode (which this perspective is inspired from).
https://orgmode.org/guide/index.html
Also Treesheets is a nice simple conceptualization
Treesheets resemble mind maps, which I use to organize thoughts, but not for lists.
Ok but still what are some more modular/limited lists like I’ve provided? What specific ones do you think are missing from my list of lists?
For me it basically breaks down to
- life
** social
*** gifts
*** birthdays
*** social event journal to remember past events
** tasks
*** repetitive weekly chore list
*** priority life tasks
*** housework/yardwork & maintenance
*** hobbies & whatever else
** meta stuff about the system (where this list of lists would be written down in an analog system as a map)
** daily scratchpad list archive
** today’s scratchpad list
Every day I use the system I create a scratchpad list. I move the previous sessions scratchpad list to the archive (or delete it) ripping out the pieces I want to keep and inserting them into the relevant permanent list.
I am describing a system I implement digitally but a simple version could be done with some notebooks and a pocketable small post it note pad for “today’s scratchpad list”. This system assumes you are using a seperate calendar or integrated date stamps for list items so they can be displayed in a calendar view.
Not claiming it’s original but this is the perspective that makes other more complex and fleshed out systems make sense to me as I can translate how that particular system maps to this abstracted recipe.
In a fully built out task tracking and thinking system the **tasks subheading is more of note system with tasks sprinkled throughout that a collating mechanism creates a list of just actionable TODOs tasks from.
How do I sort out just an actionable task list? With org mode tasks have a flag and are retrieved into a list of just actionable tasks by a basic software function, but there are ways you could translate this too into an analog equivalent with bookmarks in your task notebooks marking active TODO tasks.
I love making lists! I’m bad at following them, though.
I’ve tried putting them in obvious places (even using dry-erase marker on the bathroom mirror) and I immediately become blind to it.
I swear tomorrow I’ll be better #facepalm
superscriptTheres no answer here :/
I have 3 lists:
- morning routine (50/50 if I do it, but I try me best)
- todo
- evening routine (also 50/50)
I have a shopping list and ideas list. Anything I actually need to do, particularly at some specific date/time, goes into a calendar immediately and has reminders before.
I have several lists of media or creative pursuits that I want to try. I forget things that I want/like all the time so I have to write them down.
Another helpful one is a list of gift ideas for loved ones. Sometimes you see/think of a really great gift that would be perfect for one specific person and then the next day (or hour) it’s gone forever.
A list of lists to try and remember what you listed.
Maintenance logs for things like oil/fuel filter changes on a vehicle.
Not really something you can schedule in advanced – but helps when the anxiety hits of if you should top something off or if you’re due to commit and do the change.
I am at this point of lists:
Favorite teas (divided by vendor if I buy many variations from them):
My recipe list
Includes difficulty, special utensils, ingredients, sources
A list of vendors and where I buy stuff:
I really like seeing other people’s lists.
I’m looking forward to Jesse’s Tea House opening their UK warehouse, thank you for the inadvertent reminder to add that to my list of stuff I’m waiting for.
If you can, try to order Lebkuchen (I believe that’s gingerbread) from Lebküchnerei Miros or Lebküchnerei Düll (that’s assuming they do international shipping).
Miros is a really small back alley backery, Düll is a bigger shop but still a local in Nuremburg.
They only sell the Lebkuchen during the late autumn/winter months.
And they can be frozen (I tested it).My pleasure
My current graph view as a network of interlinked information:
Oh wow, that is gorgeous. It’s like a whole level up from how sexy spreadsheets can be.
What app is that? I need to get in on this.
Obsidian. It’s free, but you can pay for encrypted cloud syncing. It’s awesome.
Syncthing and the community plugin remotely-save can achieve the same as obsidian-sync.
Still good and I prefer their flavor of markdown.Thank you!
Short term ToDo lists. I compose a short list every workday and it helped tremendously
Stuff to watch.
The decision paralysis I was getting from opening a streaming site and seeing a bazillion thumbnails to scroll through to decide if something looks good enough, was stressful to the point where I just stopped watching stuff for a few years.
Now I have a couple of lists in my notes app with films and shows that I’ve seen recommended on discussions of other stuff I’ve liked, and I just have pick a title from a list.
My success rate for actually managing to sit down and relax while watching something has improved massively, and I’m actually enjoying watching most of the stuff in my lists too.
A what now?
Boo!
Pantry lists and other similar “reverse shopping lists” (fridge/freezer, shower cabinet, medicine cabinet, emergency/comfort food stockpile). I cross-check them with my actual inventory and shopping list once a month and in the 6 years I’ve been doing that, I think there’s only been like two months where I actually had everything.
I don’t know about most, but these are my lists.
Movies to watch during bed time.
TV shows and movies to watch.
Games to buy.
Books to buy, plus notes and other book related stuff.
Groceries to buy.
Things the house needs.
Places to go on vacation.
Events to do with my wife.
Things to buy and do with my annual bonus.
All the most important lists I’ve made today
