online ADD /memory assistance / brain fog resources?

[firecat]

I have a high distractability quotient and faulty short-term-to-long-term-memory transfer right now. I can think of various possible causes for this, but that's not the subject of this post.

I was thinking that people with ADD probably have developed techniques to minimize the impact of such things. Perhaps I could benefit from subscribing to a mailing list or LJ community that discusses such techniques. Do you know of any useful groups or web sites along those lines?

(I have already ordered David Allen's Getting Things Done.)

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[tedesson.livejournal.com]

In the last 30 minutes I reviewed 12 voice mails and had 3 phone calls. The only way I manage that sort of thing is to keep a big fat miquel ruis notebook and write everything down as it happens. I prefer a notebook to stickies as it preserves temporal order, and I often remember things relative to other things. Also, it makes me look much friendlier/smarter than I am, because I've gotten in the habit of writing down the caller's name at the beginning of the call, at the start of my notes, so at the end, I can say goodbye with their name.

Lots of people like index cards, but I couldn't cope with that, not enough information on one page.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

We have a new member of the SF book group and she writes everything in a notebook. I wonder if this is why. The first time she came, I thought maybe she was a mystery book group shopper.

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I thought writing everything in a notebook was the definition of writer.

Are the attendees of SF book group writers?

"mystery book group shopper" is hilarious.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

It's a reading group. We did have someone who wanted to write (and her husband) early on, but she wanted to write romance, and when a romance writing group opened up, they left. I don't know if he didn't dare come alone or what, because it was his SF interest that brought them to start with.

We're about half readers and half fans, so we fans have to explain things every now & then. About half of us have or have had an engineering career. Our average size is 10 people per meeting and we're the library's largest book group. We just celebrated our 6th anniversary with a great cake from our librarian/fan leader.

Most of us don't write things down, though, we can discuss (and argue) from our brains.

[firecat]

I keep notes in a text file during phone calls, or if it's a physical meeting, in a notebook. I prefer the text file because I can search it afterward.

I despise index cards for anything other than grocery shopping lists.