Tatejack?

I haven’t read anything about what hamas thought would happen after the October 7th attack. Did they think Israel would do nothing because hamas had hostages?

Or were they trying to prompt a huge response? Certainly the abhorrent despicable acts perpetrated against women that were detailed in the article are something no one would ignore. Similar to Bucha in Ukraine, the horror won’t make people surrender, just the opposite.

My wife and dog are permanently camped out under our Kotatsu table+blanket.

We’ve got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address.

Funniest thing I’ve read all millennium.

Several things worked for me:

• At the beginning of my work day, I have to login to Jira and view my tickets. I visualize myself doing that, and then creating my to-do list for the day from org-mode. It brings forward unfinished tasks from the previous day, so there’s a process or workflow: log in, open Jira, start new to-do file, compare file with Jira, update either Jira or the to-do file or both. I guess it works because it’s not just the to-do list, it’s several other things happening at the same time. So you’re not “updating a to-do list” you’re “starting work for the day”. Reframing the action can sometimes help.
• Gaming it. If I get asked for a status update, I get “points” if I have the information I was asked for already in either Jira or my to-do file. That’s enough for a little dopamine reward because I was prepared. This follows a thread in my life where I really value being prepared ahead of time. Like anticipating cars ahead of me and braking before they do. How much of the future can I predict and adapt to with the minimum effort?
• Visualizing. This is a bit woo-adjacent. I picture myself sitting down at my desk and remembering my to-do list. It works for me, but most people look at me like I’m a Sasquatch or something! Visualize doing something the next time you sit at a particular desk, or when you enter the office. I hope it works for others too!

If I think of more I’ll add it in other comments. I really hope you can find some tricks that work for you!

For me, I have to write things down to remember to do them. So I’ve formed a habit around writing in org-mode both as reminders and for planning.

When I plan some complex code, I write out the steps in an org-mode document and move sections around, rearrange steps, etc etc.

Making the experience as smooth as possible can help, but mostly I think my workflow has been “someone asks me to do something. I immediately write it down so I don’t lose it.”

Unless you already use Emacs, I can’t recommend spending lots of time to get into it. It’s a very complex and powerful system built around a text editor.

I use org-mode in Emacs when on a computer, paired with Orgzly on Android on my phone. Files are plain text, like Markdown. At its simplest, org-mode is nested headlines that you can easily move and rearrange.

I believe Obsidian is similar: https://obsidian.md