Glancing at my 1.5GB screenshots folder

why do i relate to like every adhd meme?

I’m certain my wife is ADHD, undiagnosed.

One thing she does is constantly buy storage containers of all shapes and sizes to organise her insanely disorganised world.

All this has achieved is an insane amount of forgotten storage containers in the house and we have no idea what’s in any of them.

And yes, she once attempted to buy a giant storage unit to store her storage containers.

Time for a tag sale.

I'm kinda weird in that I'm very text-oriented rather than visual-oriented, and this even results in a preference for keyboard over mouse, if I can't hotkey a thing by god I will go get a tool that will let me hotkey it, etc. As such, I type everything up in a notes app that syncs between my phone and PC. Also, while I do sometimes bookmark things, I often forget that I have so most things I find again just by remembering what I searched for last time when I find it.

Whenever I see a ADHD meme I wonder if I have it because every single time it’s about something I do.

Hey wait. I do this and I'm not...

... Oh. Never mind.

I do create screenshots and screen cuts using PickPick and auto-save turned on - it is better than any AI bases self-survivalence tool

Hmm I'll take note of this for later

i have an amazing solution for this, instead of screenshotting, i save it in txt (type it out) so that later when i have a self hosted LLM assistant, i can send all the shit ive compiled till now, and ask for movies/ songs/ or any article i saved and i can just do a semantic search through it. planning to make an open source tool for this but not too good at ML

Oh, no need to wait for LLMs. Apache Solr should be really good at it. We used it at a company I was working at to build the most kickass search into our platform, that would actually find the stuff you were looking for...and that was back in 2018 :D
- ayy, that's nice. LLMs are truely overkill just for semantic search though, didnt know there are other ways to achieve this. but we need intelligence too right. (somewhat)
For everyone else, here: https://rlama.dev/

Move your notes into a note taking app, like Obsidian, or Logseq. It's a lot easier to expand on any ideas or just reflect on them.

You also get a node graph which is fun to look at.

Tabs. I need more open tabs. Currently at 67.

I've got ∞ tabs on firefox mobile.
Try that count on each of 5 separate browser window. Amaeteur. I exaggerate, of course. Only a couple have that many tabs. I actually closed a window today - it only had 8 tabs - and opened a new one with more tabs from the references of the pages I closed. Eventually I will read the internet.
- It's not a competition, but that was just mobile browser. Add a personal laptop and a work laptop for the full measure.
I realized I got this from my mom when she asked me to fix her slow phone and the problem ended up being that the tab count on her phone's browser was ":D"
- Tab count on phone usually doesn't slows the phone. I have ∞ in firefox

In the immediate future, the screenshot archive becomes unmanageable.

In the long term future, it becomes the modern equivalent of what your parents and grandparents got out of keeping a scrapbook or photo album.

I've been chronically online since 1997. Going through a scrap folder which I held onto when decommissioning an old PC or phone brings back all kinds of memories. I even find that noting the changes in my meme taste can be really useful for identifying points where I've grown as a person. That, in turn, leads to reprocessing old memories and identifying ways in which I brought something to the table which facilitated some of my own bad experiences. That helps me heal.

I have data on my NAS stretching back to 2002. It's been migrated a few times, but the metadata doesn't lie.

You know what moment brings me true joy?

Whenever I accidentally close my main browser window but have a second window open so that the browser forgets all my open tabs.

That's when I'm able to live in bliss for a few days.

LPT: click on Recently Closed
- Lalala I can't hear you lalala - shoves fingers into ears
Get a session manager extension
- I refuse. The tool currently works perfectly for me.
  
  (But thank you for the well meant suggestion)

Wow. It's not just me? Is there a term for "fear of losing ideas"?

Athazagoraphobia

Stop attacking me!

Then you forget or misremember the name of the site or idea, and it’s just lost in a sea of broken dreams.

Backup your bookmarks and then delete all of them. The backup is for peace of mind "just in case I ever need one of them" (you won't)

Have a wonderful day with that healthy mind of yours!

From my screenshots folder (Psycho-Pass Episode 2).

Psycho pass mentioned! (Do not mention season 2).

Updated a browser and lost ten years of plans and designs

I have many notebooks. They range from pocket sized to 8" x 5" when they're for ideas. I'll occasionally use larger ones for other things, but I want to take down my thoughts quickly, and I really only want the essence of them, so I write in references to other things, images, and a short phrase to title it for context

The nice thing is I've got almost 2 decades of notebooks like this - they're scattered all through my things, basically by era.

And because of that, I don't need to fill or organize notebooks - every few years I'll see one I like and make it the idea book

I've gone through like 10x as many for work, but I just throw those away when they're full

Not just screenshots. I have literally hundred thousand photos of which about 50% are neatly in the correct folders and the rest are a complete mess that I don't even want to look at. If I spent like 5 minutes each day organizing them I'd sort it out in no time but I just can't get myself doing it.

This is my non - organisation system too... For everything which I don't have to keep decently for some external purpose. Even though I also love to organise stuff ha.

I did manage to get everything onto a 2TB harddrive, so now I have decades of irregularly organised chaos (more or less, I lost some of it several times through not backing up) all in one place - yay!

Also, despite all intentions to the contrary, I'm doing exactly the same thing with my newer devices lol (that's the hollow laughter of despair).

This is great. I'm saving this.

Saving this

I did without thinking hmm

Jokes on you, I just keep tab groups on my phone. Only 3 groups of 500 tabs are hanging out and it's it's own overwhelming problem...

I have Firefox on my phone set to delete tabs that have gone unused for a week. It helps my sanity.

I have a Project Ideas folder that would choke an ox, as my dad used to say. The only time I ever look through it is when I'm adding something. But tbh I do find items in there that I've actually done.

You should see my Planka board...

I just woke up and I'm being called out like this?

every dang bumper sticker ever. I feel like if people see me they'll just be happy it's appreciated

This is part of why I self-host things. I have a lot of projects and project ideas, and Trello - while great for what it is - is slowly becoming enshittified, so I run a Planka instance instead. I also have a Nextcloud instance, Immich for photos, and a bunch of other things that help me stay organized. It took me a decade to figure out how to organize my homelab services and hardware, but now I have it set so all I need to do is check github/gitlab for updates and breaking changes for any particular service, log into any of my Dockge instances (all 4 of them are linked), and click the "update" button in the relevant stack. Yes, I know there are automations for that, too. One thing at a time.

This might be one of the most hurtful things here I've seen 😭

Did it unconsciously.

Fortunately the web ui doesn’t tell me how many bookmarks I have.

I go a step further and (browser) bookmark each post I save. All of the bookmarks are sorted by Comments vs Post, and Community. This means I can ensure that I can search by the title of the post in my bookmarks.

Ouch, this hit hard.

Is this everyone or do I have adhd?

Just like basically every mental attribute, ADHD is a spectrum. I've been diagnosed ADHD but don't have it half as bad as many of the people here seem to, and yet I've also had a variety of bad reactions to every medication I've tried. Other people may have a few symptoms but not enough to bother getting a diagnosis, as it may not affect their daily lives at all.

But also I'm another person who has too many favorites to ever properly read through, so this is a definitely real, medically valid internet comment diagnosis that you undoubtedly have ADHD
- Thanks Dr. thethird
- Also there is a problem with some clinics diagnosing adhd ad hoc
  
  You just go they talk to you and bam you get diagnosis after one hour of half assed interview and questionnaire. It’s more or less harmless for individual imo but you waste money and time where the problem may be something different
  
  I don’t know how to approach this fake half assed diagnosis topic but it has disturbed my inner peace and itches the back of the brain
This is something everyone does in varying degree and does not necessarily mean you have ADHD.

Looking at this behaviour in isolation says nothing WRT whether or not you have ADHD...so the answer is maybe, maybe not.
Man, I'm asking myself the same since I found this community.

Can't count the number of ideas I've lost simply because I can't remember to jot it down when it hits

Google Keep/Apple Notes/Nextcloud Talk's "note to self" is a lifesaver here.
- Don’t reply on NC for notes beyond sync

I know that in the future AI will scour my screenshot folder and group everything neatly, add tags even.

Hope is a wonderful drug

Also maybe we will be able to prompt our pc with a local open source model “pick all science related screenshots and group by the topic” - sure 1344 results, do you want to see them?, no list all the topics, - astronomy(34), quantum(23), ethnology(10)
- I don't see whats stopping you from doing exactly that ten years ago. What you describe it just tag searching. Plenty of software exists to do that.
"Her" mentioned.
Newer Pixel phones can do this already, and I quite like it. Basically a local model on the device writes a text description for each screenshot, and you can sort/categorize them based on that. It will refuse to describe particularly spicy screenshots (either political or graphic), but perhaps that's a good thing.

You do need to sell your soul to the corpo overlords though and join the Google ecosystem, which I continue to have mixed feelings about.
- I wonder if there is a way to do this on a degoogled graphene OS installed pixel phone.
  
  BTW, I'm looking for a source of a cheap pixel 6 or newer phone for privacy purposes (to install graphene OS on), I'm a disabled activist on a fixed income so it's hard to afford stuff like that most of the time but at the same time it's becoming more and more important to take measures like that for privacy, if anyone is interested in a trade or otherwise has a good idea for how I can get one, please let me know. Located in Midwestern US
My pixel 9 does that

I self host a bookmark tool literally called hoarder. Save stuff to it all the time, never ever go look at it.

https://hoarder.app/

My first response to seeing this:

“Interesting. I’ll add this as a bookmark so that I can go back to it later.”

Honestly, with how many projects I have bookmarked, I should probably allocate some time to just looking through my bookmarks to see if anything especially interesting stands out.
And you can tie in AI ✨! So you can make an LLM categorize the stuff that you'll never look at again.
- Honestly, I think this was probably the initial product idea for this Microsoft Recall shit. If I could have something like that running locally, open-source and with a non-insane security architecture, I'd never again use a folder in my life.
  
  Dump it all to ~/mytrashpile and let the AI figure out what I want I'm looking for 😄
- No thanks.
I was looking for this comment! I swear it’s quite useful and not just feeding my self-hosting habit!
Hey guess what? I screenshotted it :D
Yeeeah for me it's https://readeck.org/en/ ...but same :D

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

Glancing at my 1.5GB screenshots folder

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