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Whats a big problem you are facing? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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How can you actively prevent it from getting worse—like starting now/today?

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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The biggest problem is that I have a list of hundreds of smaller problems and that list keeps growing. I have them all in a text document, and it is so overwhelming I have no idea what the fuck to do about it anymore at this point, so I keep piping it into an AI and have it tell me what to do (its suggestions are shit but it's better than nothing), but the list is so long that even the AI is getting overwhelmed by it and if it gets much longer it's going to run out of context, and its costing me like $30/mo in API usage now which is another problem I need to add to the list.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, you dont have a task/reminders/calendar app?

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I do but it also has like 100 things on it and most of my problems have extremely vague deadlines so I can't put them there. The last time I went through and filtered out no longer relevant issues was a week ago.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Whats an example of a vague problem?

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

For instance, I'm a college student right now and I need to apply for internships or jobs for the summer, and jobs or colleges or scholarships etc for the future which does not have a clear deadline but needs to be done sooner rather than later. Then many more tasks like this of similar, greater, or lesser importance or that stem from the bigger problems and I only have time to pick a few of them, to complete around clear tasks with hard deadlines (i.e. homework, exams) which I have no problem managing but take up most of my time and its importance depends heavily on those vague tasks.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How might something vague be made more concrete, time-bound, and actionable, but also limitable? Often tasks or projects expand to fill the time container alloted to them so what could be done to limit that?

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thats a problem. You dont have infinite resources and time and capacity to do free shit like job searching.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I don't have infinite resources in general, that's why I'm searching for a job