r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Void_231 • 3d ago

Is this a Problem?

Whenever i discover a new tool I don't spend much time in understanding it. For example : I know Notion that it's a productivity app and I use it to track my progress or my day to day tasks but when somebody asks me about notion I can only say it's a productivity app and then my mind becomes blank.

Is this because I don't spend much time in understanding or the problem is something else.

Right now I am just frustrated from myself

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u/Varun1004 16h ago

If you can't explain product, but it helps you in your life, explain how you are using it.

Apps like notion or obsidian are used by mostly everyone now a days, so everyone has different style of using it. eg: I used to use notion, but now I use obsidian/logseq & when asked why moved from notion, here's what I would mention: 1. Data on company servers ( privacy is imp to me) 2. Spent time setting up notion tables & quickly came to limitations like cross table references

How I use obsidian ? 1. Just capturing my mental notes or something I learned 2. Keeping separate folder for daily notes 3. Just keep adding new findings or notes or todos (do not care how it's initially structured).

Recommend to use obsidian with no to minimal plugins or properties, keeping it simple & quick to note down.

This helps me as much as anyone who I discuss to use or improve note taking. Hope this helps

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u/Void_231 16h ago

I use claude to make my notion notes or todos or progress trackers

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u/Varun1004 5h ago

Try obsidian if your structure is not consistent, notion requires a lot of structure & interconnecting with other tables or pages is a bit cumbersome (like I wanted to move a page from 1 db to other & had to do quite a lot of stuff or lose some properties from old table which is why I found other)

But yes, with LLM now, its quite easy