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Lists don't really work for me - I guess I just have a series of systems.
Lost things - gone forever but I've got like 5 of everything, or it's so important it lives is the same place all the time (keys, phone, wallet)
Tasks - Sometimes I'll write something I need to remember to do at work before I leave on a post-it note, because I am almost certain to forget any task that I don't do the minute I remember I have to...I only started making work plans once I started supervising and needed to be able to delegate work. I mostly get through on vibes with work tasks.
Devices to charge - everything is charging all the time, and I've got extra cables all over.
Shopping - you can buy the same thing every week if you eat the same thing every day 👉👉 If I want to make something special, I'll make a list and hopefully remember it. But maybe it'll get made next week...
Appointments - In my calendar, but regular appointments are regular on purpose.
Birthdays - yeah they are in my calendar and set to repeat.
List can help some people, I'm sure but they also require execution function to create and I don't got much of that.
This is kind of where I’m at. Most things are just scheduled tasks or timers to remind me of something.
Get medicated! (This is not meant to be a demand just excitement because it was the solution for me) My siblings and mother can make massive amounts of lists and routines, and I never understood how they could plan things and remember to look at or follow the plans.
Then I got prescribed adderall. Guess who can make lists now…
Tbf it still takes effort but the executive dysfunction isn’t nearly as impassable as it was. Plus getting anxious makes me want to make lists now instead of making me too anxious to make lists lol
I'm medicated.
Ah rip.
Fun fact I don’t think I meant to respond to your comment since you seem to have systems and are able to make tasks and reminders. Unfortunately I just read through all the comments and none of them sound familiar so I don’t know which comment I meant to respond to. Perhaps my reading comprehension is just terrible right now lol
Anyway, you seem to be on top of things, more so than myself so sorry for the misplaced suggestion.
Oh but you might like Obsidian if you want digital notes, and if you want to like remember trains of thoughts or ideas that you don’t have time for in the moment but think you’ll forget about. You can link notes so you can find the ideas later by remembering what the thought was related to instead of having to like organize the notes into folders (though you can do that too).