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[โ€“] Signtist@bookwyr.me 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This might be the ADHD more than anything, but making alarms on my phone changed my life. I used to forget important things all the time, but then I started making alarms for the most important stuff, and all of a sudden I stopped forgetting them!

Nowadays I'll make an alarm for everything. I said I'd go get groceries after I finish this episode of my TV show? Better make an alarm for 7 minutes from now. I'm going to the store to buy eggs? Better make an alarm titled "eggs" to go off at the store in case I get distracted by something.

At this point I open my alarms app automatically any time there's anything at all to remember. I have dozens of concurrent alarms, and it's great.

[โ€“] Aneb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Lol I'm constantly scrolling to get to the later in the day alarms like 7pm because the list is so large