Interestingly enough, I just found these articles recently and implemented this, it has been huge for me. I get hooked on my phone for work, but then end up falling into the black hole of distraction. By making it into a tool, and removing work related stuff, I find that I end up only using it for a few minutes each day. I still have it for the useful stuff though, maps, music, strava, etc. but when I need to look something up or check in on work, I have to go grab my computer.

I honestly feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am way more present with my family.

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Obsidian does have that feature, so at least one of those options should work. For me, the best thing about roam is the outline level block references. Having to create a bunch of new atomic notes can start to make things really confusing from an organizational perspective and that is what always bogged me down previously. I can use Roam more like a bullet journal, just open up today's note, throw a header down for whatever meeting I am in and start to capture, then click on the header to get all the previous notes I have taken on that subject.

Note that I am not a researcher, but a dev manager, so most of my note-taking revolves around meeting notes and action items with some research thrown in.

I was diagnosed with ADHD over 20 years ago. I took medicine to help cope it with it for much of my life, by choice, I chose to try to find other remedies on it.

This is certainly not medical advice and is very much anecdotal, but I do find that simple remedies of getting outside, meditating, and exercising regularly help me a lot with managing my negative symptoms. I appreciate your view point and can see your point. My goal was to share something that has anecdotally helped me in the hopes that it might help someone else.

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond, it means a lot.

Great, I have an ADHD diagnosis as well. In fact, my coping strategies are pretty similar to yours. Framing what is otherwise an interesting idea for a mindfulness practice for the masses as an easy "cure" is not only speaking for all of us, it diminutizes the condition for those who don't understand what life is like when you just can't point your mind at the thing in front of you. I get enough of 'well, everyone has trouble focusing sometimes,' which is why I even bothered to dig up my login to comment. Thanks for the level response, I had reservations that any response might turn into a poo-slinging contest and I'm glad it didn't!

I am seeing the same thing in my neighborhood in Austin. Whole families out walking around together, people playing in the streets... my wife commented that it's like life slowed down and people are refocusing on just being together again. It's a nice side-effect of this whole situation.

Once this trouble is over everyone will realize how great life can be and work fewer hours, right? Right?

My commute is a lot shorter, which does free up more hours for me, but so far I'm working the same number of hours -- possibly more because it's easy for me to let work bleed over into non-business hours when I work from home.

Heh my neighborhood looks like night of the comet... no one out and about at all. No cars... a lone pedestrian every once in awhile.

This actually worked for me. I was a habitual marijuana user for several years and it had very adverse effects on my productivity and motivation, but I couldn't seem to quit. Then I did mushrooms with some friends and when I woke up I simply did not have the desire to smoke anymore. It has been around 12 years and I haven't ever picked it back up.

Just as another data point, I actually love weed with no desire to quit, and I too found myself questioning if it's even something I want to keep in my life after a psychedelic experience.

One of the weird things about psychedelics is that you'll often think "why don't I take better care of myself?" which often includes not doing the drugs or living the lifestyle that gave you that insight.

I also think I enjoy weed less since I've had that experience, which I'm a little disappointed about, but I feel like I have a much better compass for making good decisions now. I replaced grams in blunts with small amounts of whole leaf vaporization after that.