Hi all.

I’ve been having trouble remembering events and tasks because I often don’t notice the notifications of my smartphone or computer when focused on something.

How do you all deal with this without continuously checking your phone and laptop?

And when I check my laptop or phone, I often stop doing anything else because I know something is coming up. And I often also start browsing or doing other things which was not my intention.

  • NationProtons@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    That’s what I try to do. But sometimes I forget setting the alarms and then I start double guessing myself. Checking my calendar anyway even though I already have alarms set.

    I was looking for a way to automatically set alarms based on calendar events, but seems like I’m out of luck…

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      8 months ago

      Try alarm calendar plus in the play store (android). I’ve used it for years. The developer is called ‘Moyou’.

      I have it go off x minutes before the work shifts that I enter into my Google calendar, and I also use it for “time signals” - little beeps throughout the day to remind me ‘hey, it’s 12 o’clock now, better get some lunch’, or more typically - time to get up and take a 5 minute break.

      Of course I have to have th corresponding time signal to go back to work or my ADHD brain would get distracted and forget 😁

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        8 months ago

        Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it out. Too bad I use an iPhone as my daily phone at the moment, I don’t think there is something equivalent to this for iOS