• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    stop reading my mind, tyvm.

    ive actually just been sifting through the mountains of data i accumulated over the better part of a decade, or more.

    and let me tell you, a lot of these i actually followed up through on! turns out you do come back to it later in other ways and don’t even notice you made a lot of progress until you come back to The Archives™

    overwhelming at first but deleting a lot of old notes and stuff has never felt so good. like doing a big spring cleaning on my mind.

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    5 hours ago

    You laugh but I’m glad Ive got a picture of my driver’s license favorited so I can find my license number easily without having to get up and find my wallet when some random form wants it.

    Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key but can’t remember my own driver’s license number.

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      4 hours ago

      Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key

      …h…how many times did you have to reinstall Windows 95?*

      *Before 98 came out? Lol

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        IT professional… SO MANY TIMES. Any not just reinstall, we were upgrading and doing primary installs.

        I knew a 95 key and an office key. (which was easy because 1201234567 worked on O2k

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        A lot. I had a Packard Bell 486 that came with 3.1 and a free upgrade. Except I would constantly get “Explorer.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down” error.

        One day I decided to compress the hard drive and for some reason, that fixed it. It never happened again.

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    5 hours ago

    I’m self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason, but… I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser and write some things down in two separate note taking apps… Send help.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      I’m self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason,

      Oh my gosh what is this.

      I want it.

      This is going to end up an enormous chunk of my server space isn’t it. :3

      I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser

      I think this is just a side effect of how mobile browsers seem to work. Every quick little lookup I do is in its own tab, and I close the browser instead of the tab when I’m done, so if you’re like me, it builds up to an absurdly high number very fast.

      If I haven’t gone back through that list in like a month I just take a deep breath and hit “close all tabs”.

      I’m gonna try this Karakeep though. I’ve tried traditional bookmarks in Firefox and…I never actually reference them. Lol

    • Zombie@feddit.uk
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      7 hours ago

      Go do 20 minutes on your paper.

      What’s 20 minutes?

      You got this!

      Life is fucking hard, but a step at a time can make it more bearable. I believe in you SexualPolytope

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    9 hours ago

    A few weeks ago I managed to sit down for a few hours to put all my ongoing tasks and projects in fucking project management software in order to be able to follow it up better. I’m now afraid of opening the software to look at the mountain of collected work therein.

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      6 hours ago

      I finally began to just purge everything, its a whole project trying to sell off my projects though so now my living room is a warehouse of boxes and bubbles wrap I’ve been bringing home from work

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      9 hours ago

      I’ve got so many dead tasks management tools that I spent a day setting up.

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        8 hours ago

        Oh, but have you tried [insert software that has 8-billion tools, all of which you ignore and you just use as a notepad]?

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    8 hours ago

    You just delete the screenshot folder whenbit gets intimidating. Most of them were of my lockscreen anyways.

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          I give it 90 seconds after that moment until their searching for the old reference lands them on some new and better reference they’d rather use instead

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            I think they meant “reference number” like some sort of “remember this code if anything goes wrong or we won’t refund you” to return a product or something lol.

            I think this is a major issue with such things though. There’s so much paper mail especially where it says “keep for your records” but it’s like… between some fuzzy limbo of necessity and garbage.

            …so it either gets scanned to PaperlessNGX or gets stuffed in a “I want this stupid paper off my desk and I’m not sure if I should keep it” box that I’ll go through when it’s full. Lol

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    8 hours ago

    Listen. That e-ink display I’ve got tucked away in a screenshot and an open tab is important and I will look at it later and decide whether I want to do that project.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      1 hour ago

      ooo love playing with displays.

      whaddya got in mind for that juicy e-ink?

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    7 hours ago

    I really need to set myself up on LinkWarden or linkding; it would solve at least 95% of this problem and my massive tab problem as well

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    8 hours ago

    Screenshotting and bookmarking is the equivalent of a SuperLike. It’s a badge of honour.

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    7 hours ago

    And this is the sole reason for my MyMind subscription. 10% interesting maker projects, 90% funny memes and comics.