ADHD. How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?

Re:ADHD. How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts a... by NegativeK on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:40PM (#46610771)

I have so many text files (technically wikis and GDocs text docs, but I'm not doing more than lines of text). I was talking to a coworker today about our graveyard of pen and paper notebooks, todo apps, reminder thingies, post-its..

I need two things: ubiquity, so that I can add ideas, todos, etc. wherever I am; and exaggerated simplicity so that I don't end up turning the note solution into its own project that's abandoned or exchanged in a year.

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Re:ADHD. How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts a... by lordkrandel on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:02AM (#46613518)

Force yourself to use the same paper journal you carry around. Keep writing whatever comes in your mind, literally everything. Re-read the last day at day's end. Mitigation tecnique to empty your brain, leaving trails.

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Re:ADHD. How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts a... by NegativeK on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @09:05PM (#46627042)

My eternal issue with paper is that it's not always physically on me. A phone, however, is.

GDocs/a wiki have actually worked well, though I don't do the re-reading. Just crapping it out into a known place works pretty well.

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