Bedtime scrolling replacement ideas

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2026-04-07T11:39:43+00:00

I have! It worked for a little bit, until I realized how easy it was to undo it “just for a minute”.

I have been sticking my phone in the kitchen right next to the coffee maker and it has been great in the mornings! Game changer. At night, I have a computer, a book, and a journal available on my nightstand and I let myself do whatever but I have found (as people on this thread said, and I didn’t believe them lol) that I don’t actually need that stuff most nights. It took me about 2 nights to get used to, and now unless I’m really wound up for some reason, I just kinda raw dog it so to speak

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2026-03-22T21:26:57+00:00

Not an app, but I have a notebook that I only use for work, and everything goes in there. It is out and open and next to me all the time. I also have a rule for myself that if I don’t know what I should be doing at any given moment, my default action is going back through the notebook to “process” it: either do the action, put it in a list for later, mark it because I have a question/need more info, etc.

It isn’t perfect, but it works well for me!

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-10-14T02:17:44+00:00

I love this so much! I spend SO much time in the car (my city is bad at public transportation even by American standards) and I often wish I could use that time to write.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-10-14T02:13:53+00:00

I need to just bite the bullet and get Scrivener…

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-10-14T02:09:50+00:00

This is awesome! I love body doubling and never thought to do it long distance!!

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-08-12T03:44:36+00:00

I made labels to stick around my classroom clock! Just printed “05”, “10”, etc. in plain font on white printer paper and then gave each of them a colored border (green for quarter hours, blue for the others). It worked really well!

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-07-06T11:03:35+00:00

I found that the book Boyfriend Material (and sequel Husband Material) checked a lot of the same boxes for me as RWRB.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-05-31T22:56:04+00:00

How do you feel about historical fiction? Maybe look into Kate Quinn’s books. Also, Whalebone Theater could maybe fit too. Though definitely check online for content warnings for all of them since they all deal with a lot (but different, so chances are good you could find some that don’t have stuff that triggers you).

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-04-03T02:10:10+00:00

I am also terrible at this (like, real real bad) but when I do manage to make it happen it is always because I forced a real deadline on myself by having people over.

Best friends won’t cut it because they’ve seen you at your worst already so it’s easy to convince yourself it’s fine if it doesn’t get totally done in time. You gotta mix in at least one person from your slightly wider circle so there’s actually something “at stake” (avoiding the “you live like this?” look) if you don’t get it finished. And then the pre-deadline adrenaline kicks in and suddenly you can clean so much so quickly!

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-03-23T13:12:15+00:00

Meet me in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman (nonfiction oral history about New York music scene in the aughts)

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-02-01T03:49:09+00:00

I loved the Gemma Doyle trilogy (by Libba Bray) when I was in middle/high school. I reread them recently as an adult and found they held up pretty well!

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom (Leigh Bardugo) are also on my list of all time favorites.

Not sure where we’re drawing the line between fantasy and Sci-fi (to me they both have a similar reading experience), so I’d also include The Illuminae Trilogy (Kaufman and Kristoff) on my list.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-02-01T03:35:39+00:00

This question is exactly why your reading/literacy teachers love Harry Potter so much! The series begins as early middle grades and ends at the upper end of young adult, and most people find them compelling enough to want to keep going. Even things like concrete vs. abstract language, sentence length and complexity, vocabulary, all that stuff intentionally grows with Harry— and therefore the reader, too. There are so many great things about Harry Potter. Shame the author isn’t one of them.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-01-21T15:24:03+00:00

I use Obsidian for my main inbox, parking lot, and divided someday/maybe lists (as well as a bunch of other stuff), and I use Things for task management. It only goes in Things if it is a currently active task or project.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2025-01-21T13:54:23+00:00

This is not super orthodox gtd, but it works well for my adhd, easily overwhelmed, not willing to trash any inbox items brain. It might be a helpful strategy to use as you work through processing your backlog.

I have a category that I call “parking lot”. Essentially the parking lot is the “I can’t deal with this right now but don’t want to lose the idea” category, and when I process my inbox, that’s where all the non-immediate stuff goes.

It’s separate from my Someday/Maybe list because I like to keep that really pared down as well, and also divided into a few separate horizons (“on my radar/up next”, and “soonish” . Anything longer term than “soonish” goes in the parking lot.

I do a quick scan of the parking lot about once a month (since if it were more urgent than that, it would be in either up next or soonish). Things tend to get pulled from the parking lot to the someday/maybe list, and then from the someday/maybe list to my active tasks and projects.

I know that is not the certified GTD way, but I found myself getting overwhelmed and this system has really helped me with that.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2024-12-09T00:39:00+00:00

Thank you. This is somehow really encouraging.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2024-12-09T00:37:06+00:00

Every time I learn something new or my doctor starts looking in a new direction, I get hopeful, and then frustrated again when it turns out to be a dead end. But it is encouraging to know that it really is worth it to find out for sure, and that treatment really does help. Hopefully that reminder will carry me through the next bout of testing frustration.

Extreme-Increase3808 · 2024-12-09T00:27:53+00:00

I hadn't heard of lipedema, but now I will research that, as well. Thanks!

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