See, my problem is that it's never 2 minutes.
I tell myself it is; I truly think it is. A half hour later…
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Then you look at the clock and it is midnight. You say to yourself "I better go to bed." It is then 2 am before you go to bed.
Time is fake anyway. Other than the broad categories of morning, afternoon, night. All of that hours and minutes garbage was made up to increase human suffering
Write it down? That way you won't have to do it right now AND you won't think about it. Probably.
Exactly this. And writing it down gets it out of your head so you won’t do the old ADHD Loop the Loop about it
From a productivity perspective it's a good idea to leave a task unfinished because it gives you a place to start in the morning.
That doesn't work for everyone, but perhaps it will help you.
As long as you write it down! I have frequently had Very Important Thoughts™ that I was sure were important enough to not forget, only to wake with a vague sense of urgency about nothing in particular.
Happens less with a notebook, but still happens
I keep a pocket notebook with me at all times and use a kind of bullet journal lite method to keep track of stuff. This happens to me a lot, but if I just write down the thing, knowing I have a process to make sure I'll actually read that note later (that's the hard part) let's me get that thing off of my mind and prevents me from losing hours of sleep to an ADHD "this'll just take a minute" hyperfocus trap.
That being said, I teleported from 8:45pm to 10:45pm last night (much to the annoyance of my poor wife) just tinkering with a couple of things on my 3d printer, and also forgot to eat dinner. So it's not a perfect solution 😅