Is there an #ADHD term for, uh, nominal priority.
Like, I decide I'm going to work on that specific thing with full expectation that I'll get repeatedly derailed.
But I will get derailed in that general direction.
@virtulis I don't know if there's a term for this, but I think this may be the same thing I do for software projects?
Where I break them up into lots of small parts that I develop as independent libraries simultaneously, so if I get distracted, I will probably get distracted towards a different part of the same goal. And it means that all of them take a very long time individually but there's a near-constant stream of *something* getting done.
@joepie91 so basically
while thing not done do whatever
This is surprisingly efficient in getting thing done, somehow. (compared to actually trying to get it done)
Of course this only works for things you don't actively hate.
@virtulis Ah yeah, I recognize the more general form of this, which seems to be 'relieving pressure' - the way I've implemented this is the idea of "declaring a day wasted", where if I feel like I can't focus I immediately drop all obligations for that day and do whatever I feel like.
And often I end up magically being able to focus on the exact same thing I was already doing, just because I'm not pushing myself to do it anymore.
@joepie91 yeah, that too.
But I guess the specific "one weird trick" I'm talking about is deciding beforehand on the answer to "Right, where was I?".
That's the whole thing. If I ever find myself wondering what I was going to do today, it's trying to automate print jobs on that stupid printer. If I don't, I'm probably doing something useful anyway.
@joepie91 @virtulis this is way too real. I keep doing next to nothing for an entire workday and then at the end of the day I go "screw it, I'll do this small thing and then clock out" and I end up doing the entire day's worth of work in two hours but get off later than I anticipated
How do I get out of this cycle
@joepie91 I guess, but in my case it's even less organized.
I just decide "if I ever forget what I'm working on, it's that thing". Then I proceed to fix anything that annoys me until that thing is done. Which can take a month and that's okay and good result.