I work as a developer/ cloud IT engineer. All day long people mention something in meetings or I need to check the uptime/status of a particular asset. It was getting to be too much to keep track of every little thing I had to do.

I eventually settled for writing down things mentioned to me, or things that I'm reminded of. The vast majority of my work I remember, don't need to write down to keep track of.

Glancing over this, I get that it's incredibly vague advice. But following a version of this, and starting a new page every day, has really helped me keep track of things.

[–] gorilladickcock@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not adhd (at least I don't think) but I rely on slack reminders at my job (also tech work).

Having reminders sent as messages is really nice. If I write it down I may forget where I wrote it or forget to even check my list if I get plugged in on another task too long. With slack reminders I can just say when to remind me and forget about it.

I'm also a massive stoner so that has a little something to do with it too xD

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have my own work checklists, similarly to you. I just open a new page in a physical notebook every day for all the things we don't track on the sprint board, but I'm responsible for getting done regardless.

I feel you on that last part. In fact, the reason I've been going the extra mile and making little reminders for myself is because I'm letting that first hit creep a little closer to 3pm than the normal 5pm lmao.

[–] gorilladickcock@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha same. Actually, if I have no meetings I may wake and bake with a coffee on the side. It's not every day but prob once a week on avg. Helps break up some of the monotony.

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Bro, today was a long day of doing nothing for me.

I had to be at work (remotely) and attend some meetings although there's little to no work I can actually accomplish until tomorrow. For various reasons.

You better believe I was hitting that oil cart today. Infrequently, but still...

[–] reedbend@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bullet journaling is fscking amazing for this, unfortunately after many years of hard experience, I've come to understand that I'm so receptive to environmental stimuli that I just haven't been able to maintain such a system in a chaotic environment ... I need a certain level of baseline peace / recharge in order to be able to stay on top of systems like these. But they do work so well when I can manage it

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair I really wouldn't call my strategy bullet journaling, more like writing a daily to-do list (sparse reminders)

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do this as well but I use Obsidian (yes I know it's closed source VC ware, bite me) because I'm already at my computer.

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just might have to look into that

No worries, while I agree it's good to support FOSS alternatives...

A lot of software development is commercially driven, and that's not a bad thing.