Glancing at my 1.5GB screenshots folder

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.

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.

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
- For everyone else, here: https://rlama.dev/
- 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)

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.

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

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

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

Updated a browser and lost ten years of plans and designs

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)

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

This is great. I'm saving this.

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)

From my screenshots folder (Psycho-Pass Episode 2).
- Psycho pass mentioned! (Do not mention season 2).

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.

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.

Saving this
- I did without thinking hmm

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...

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

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

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).

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.

Ouch, this hit hard.

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

This is Pinterest basically.
- Honestly I’d love an alternative to Pinterest that isn’t shit. Also a requirement for source/artist before you can post it

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.

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

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
  
  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.

I know that in the future AI will scour my screenshot folder and group everything neatly, add tags even.
Hope is a wonderful drug
- "Her" mentioned.
- 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.
- My pixel 9 does that
- 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

disorganized information is kinda indistinguishable from this 'entropy' stuff. it's very inconvenient. we should change that. does anyone know where to change the server settings here?

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/
- I was looking for this comment! I swear it’s quite useful and not just feeding my self-hosting habit!
- 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.
- Hey guess what? I screenshotted it :D
- Yeeeah for me it's https://readeck.org/en/ ...but same :D

See also: my 473 open browser tabs
- These ideas are getting refined by fermenting in my tab stack!
- At work I use tab groups to keep them organized by project, so I can tell just how far behind/how overwhelmed I am with a given project by the count of tabs in a given tab group.
  It’s a highly effective way to quantify my work-related anxiety.
- I double dare you to close all. It's the best legal rush.
  
  But I can’t close them, I need to remember! I don’t know what I need to remember any more but they seem important

Hoarder app is great for this
- I've used Wallabag forever. Wish I could import it all to Hoarder. It looks neat, I bookmarked it a few weeks ago.
  
  You might be able to bulk import links

F u four calling me out like that but also thank you for validating my feelings.

In my case, I straight up forget they exist.

Actually, Apple’s AI has made this pretty useful these days. It’s become yet another extension of my brain since i can now search them. But, yes, for a long time they were just more clutter. And, the benefit may still be quite marginal due to the fact that they are using energy in perpetuity as long as they are stored in the cloud. lol

Stop getting personal

Downloading this to my meme archive I'm never gonna use 🫣

I leave a bunch of of tabs on my phone web browser until i can't take anymore (around 15/20 tabs) then i organize everything with bookmarks so i can, maybe, some day, who knows, if i feel like it and the planets align, i might take a look on them, just maybe
- This is exactly what I do too! Bookmarks felt too hidden and easily forgotten so I now have folders upon folders of tabs I mean to get back to 💀

I always screenshot a million things on my phone and then purge them all at once one day without even looking.
- Oh see, I just back them up to my desktop. Where they sit. Just in case. I don't have a problem, I swear.

Me when I try to put all my reaction pics in one folder

I just screenshotted this.

You have to remember the thing you wanted to remember and where you put it only to find it six months after the point it was useful anymore but don’t delete it because it might be important again even though the odds of you remembering it and where it is should it be useful are near zero.

what's worse is when it's a store you wanna check out but don't want the advertisement to get credit, and when you finally DO remember to check it out, the store is gone cause it was a scam all along

Wait before you hear of OCD :D
- Wait until you hear about OCD ADHD combined. I recommend everyone use https://obsidian.md/. It's my trapper keeper and I've managed to funnel everything into it into their own little boxes in a rather automated fashion... Combine that with a little self hosting and you've got an orchestra for the chaos gremlin that you can drop and pick up again as many times as you want. I regularly mix up my toys and tools to keep it interesting as long as they funnel into obsidian eventually. I literally have about 200 obsidian extensions and everything syncs across network and devices lol.
  
  With enough ADHD individuals' Obsidian notes combined, we will be able to release a book based on the summarised self help articles. "Survive ~~ADHD, OCD~~ Anything, the book.", the first page will feature an FAQ, and a link to the audiobook version.
  
  I came here to recommend it as well. It's wonderful for this. My memory is shit but I have enough of it to be like... wait I think I did something with this once... and then search my vault for my notes. I used to use OneNote but Obsidian is 1000% better. I love how fast it is to create a reasonably documented note if you have a template set up.
  My workflow for anyone interested:
  Ctrl + O
  Type the title which shows you if theres anything that already has this name where you might want to add this instead of making a new note (assuming you have a naming scheme).
  Shift + Enter to create the note.
  Ctrl+~ to add template. Paste info, paste url and make whatever notes I want.
  This leaves you with an easily searchable vault of notes which you can further organize with tags/links pretty much however you want.
  
  I thought to myself. This looks neat, I’ll check it out. Went to the page, then to the App Store to install it. Already had it. Doh!!

Set a script to automatically delete them once they're a week or two old; if it's something important, you'll copy it somewhere else.

Why are you like this?!
Sop assaulting my personality.

Haha this is definitely me 😂

Wow. I signed up for a service to do this and it’s mostly filled with memes or funny stuff. I’m glad I’m not the only one.

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