The lighter side of ADHD
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5364920
just for good measures
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The original was posted on /r/memes by /u/brylex1 on 2025-03-10 03:01:06+00:00.
From my screenshots folder (Psycho-Pass Episode 2).
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.
Me when I try to put all my reaction pics in one folder
I just woke up and I'm being called out like 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)
Ouch, this hit hard.
Saving this
I did without thinking hmm
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.
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?
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'm in this picture and I don't like it
F u four calling me out like that but also thank you for validating my feelings.
I always screenshot a million things on my phone and then purge them all at once one day without even looking.
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
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
I know that in the future AI will scour my screenshot folder and group everything neatly, add tags even.
Hope is a wonderful drug
My pixel 9 does that
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.
You're missing the point that actually requires tagging and organization to begin with.
The difference they are talking about is automatic parsing and natural language understanding of their screenshots and other data.
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.
I bought a pixel second hand and did this, it's easy to do even for a non techy person. You might say which country you're in, I could give some ideas but I'm in england so they might not work for you.
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).
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.
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.
Stop getting personal
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
Oo looks like I can now and use it with ollama too. Wicked. Will take a look later, cheers.
It’s a pretty sweet software! I recommend the app as well. I don’t use the ai part and it’s already good
I just screenshotted this.
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
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.
I self host a bookmark tool literally called hoarder. Save stuff to it all the time, never ever go look at it.
Hey guess what? I screenshotted it :D