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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or my favorite, "here let me show you how to use a calendar."

Great, next maybe you could teach a blind kid to ride a bike.

Here's me in 6th grade, reading at a college level, learning algebra, picking up coding because it's fun, and you think the problem is that I don't conceptually get calendars?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would but if I don’t stare at that to-do list non-stop, I will immediately forget it exists.

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

I have to-do lists for my to-do lists.

Not even exaggerating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The real problem is that making lists is an infinitely recursive task, each entry on a list can end up becoming its own list. I will frequently spend all day making a list, instead of doing things.

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

When I hyperfixate on finding the "perfect productivity app" for 2 weeks straight instead of actually doing anything lmao

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

This is literally how Workflowy, my list-making app of choice, works. And I love it.

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

sorry, I only drink Barq's

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

Yep. Now I just know all the shit I failed to do today :\

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

In all seriousness though, breaking things down helped me a bit. It can be useful in certain situations but of course isn't a cure-all.