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I also compulsively[?] bookmark things to get to them "later" but I think this is just something that stems from how ephemeral the web can be. I've started trying to regularly send my massive set of bookmarked links to a selfhosted ArchiveBox instance to preserve the content. Haven't figured out search yet, but I'm looking at Yacy and possibly Elastic. I cobsider it a personal knowledge base. It's reassuring to know that the feeling of "oh, I saw this! or read about that!" or "yes there was this project posted that solved this problem..." and know you can find it again with very little effort even if the original has long vanished.

As for coping with ADHD in general... the tack I'm taking lately is to just embrace the mundane. "Mundane excellence" is kind of the mantra. I'll do outrageous things to avoid the mundane business of everyday life and work, but it causes a lot of problems and discomfort. But it actually tends to feel rewarding to engage with it over avoiding it. The whole frustrating "thing I put off for months just took ten minutes at 5% effort to just do"... I don't know. It all remains a challenge, despite medication.



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