• waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I have made it habit to put my laundry basket somewhere where I have to step over it to go to bed whenever I switch on my washing machine. Makes it easier to not forget. If I don’t, I may as well wash the laundry a second time, because forgetting it in the machine over night means it starts to stink…

  • Unaware7013@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    Timers fucking everywhere my dude. If it weren’t for timers (on my phone, my watch, work/personal computers, etc) I’d forget to do all kinds of shit.

        • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I find the voice assistant on my android to be extra helpful for setting timers because it is way easier to just hit the assistant button and say start a timer for however long rather than messing around looking for the clock app and trying to put in the settings by hand.

      • Unaware7013@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you’re on Android, I
        Amdroid is great. Combination alarm clock/countdown timer, let’s you save many different countdowns/alarms with names and alerting styles.

        I use it all the time to make sure I don’t forget shit. Washer and dryer each have a countdown for the length they run, along with dishwasher for the same reason.

        I also use LifeUp to gamify my task list to help ensure I (generally) remember to do my daily/weekly tasks.

      • 0xDEADBEEF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ngl I find using an oven or microwave timer to be most effective, something external that I have to get up and go turn off forces me to deal with it immediately, phone alarms can be silenced and ignored lol

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeh but then I just dismiss the timer and it is gone from my brain before my phone is even set back on the table

      • Unaware7013@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        See, this is where shit like Amdroid comes in handy. Among the challenge (dismiss your alarm) options, they have NFC and QR/barcode as options. So you can force yourself to not be lazy by creating a tag, barcode or QR code that lives next to the thing you need to do by having to scan your verification to be able to shut your phone up.

        I don’t really have much advice on making you accountable to yourself, but the little things like this help force you to adult and not fuck up as much. Only thing that worked for me was to give myself a ton of anxiety so that overcoming my laziness/forgetfulness to prevent me from feeling the crippling anxiety from not getting shit done. 2/10, don’t recommend.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      And my calendar, I don’t understand how anyone could function without.

      • Unaware7013@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Oh fuck yes. Only problem is remembering to add/update events. And with three adhd af people working off of a shared calendar… Well, I’m just surprised we don’t double book more often.

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Use a timer? Dump the clothes in a pile, most of your stuff doesn’t need to be folded. Pull out shirts and lay them flat to fold later when brain good.

      • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The point of the timer is you don’t need to focus. Your phone will tell you when it’s time to go dump everything in the next machine or back to your basket.