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by atemerev 1429 days ago
I have too many ideas and too few resources to actually implement them. So I deliberately do not write down my ideas, otherwise I will be distracted easily (I have heavy ADHD and it is very difficult for me to prioritize between ideas to work on).

If some idea is really important, it will come again, and again, and I will have to start doing something about it. Otherwise, it is better to forget it. Just writing something down is the best way for me to never get back to it, I have a lot of ideas written down in Evernote like this, I call it my “cemetery of ideas”.

I have very intricate systems for reminders, documents and events (I have to set up 3-4 reminders before any event, otherwise I’ll happily ignore it). But writing down plain notes never did any good to me.

(tl;dr ADHD sucks)

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I've found taking noted just makes me anxious - they don't help me to learn anything nor are revisited later.

My only notes are very simple stuff like doctor appointments, taxes, etc...