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How to avoid attention traps? (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 days ago by Remy@lemmy.today to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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Though I deleted all social media apps, blocked YT shorts and dont use stuff like TikTok, I still fall into attention traps from time to time and suddenly realize that I have spend 2 hours scrolling through a subredit (for example) full of post totally irrelevant to my life and will now be very late on my schedule.

Do you have any strategies to avoid such situations?

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[–] antheraeavx@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In my experience, setting frequent alarms can help with time-blindess. Having an alarm or a pop-up go off every 20-30 minutes won't ensure you're focused on the right task, but it will build more awareness to the amount of time that has passed since you've been off-track/distracted/going on random rabbit holes.

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Even the 'time to stand' message that Apple watches do at ten minutes to the hour is good - it's enough to make me think 'crap - how long have I been doing this' for a second which is the prompt for me to consider what I really want to be doing.