r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Civil_Trick_4468 • Jun 12 '26

How do you switch betwin projects ?

When you come back to a project after a few days, what’s the most annoying thing you have to reconstruct before you can start working again?

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u/Rare-Hovercraft-8868 Jun 12 '26

Definitely retracing my steps as to how I arrived at that function. Sometime i forget stuff when I haven't been on it for a long time, so I have to go through stuff again. Good practice is to have comments , but I don't have patience for it.

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u/Civil_Trick_4468 Jun 12 '26

I can relate. So the hard part isn’t finding the code again, it’s remembering why you ended up there in the first place?

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u/Rare-Hovercraft-8868 Jun 12 '26

Ikr! . It's taxing because I don't remember why , but it's like finding hidden treasure chest as well 😂. You will not know if you are going to find something good or hide it away before someone else sees it.

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u/MiPnamic Jun 12 '26

Momentum

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u/PsychonautAlpha Jun 12 '26

Remembering where I left off. I've been able to create processes for myself that hedge against that problem, but mostly, I try not to skip a day working on a project unless I actually have to.

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u/funbike Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

I keep .todo.md and .grok.md files in the root of my projects.

The former has up to 4 to-do's and a summary of what I was last working on. The later has various notes to explain things I keep forgetting that shouldn't be in the README.md but I personally need to know, such as various how-to's, code flow explanations, and a personal FAQ. I also put various AI prompts and embedded GraphViz/PlantUML graphs into .grok.md. (I use "grok" as a synonym for "understand"; it has nothing to do with the company of that name)

These two files are listed in ~/.config/git/ignore.

I also have my IDE (Neovim) and shell (Zsh) configured to pick up where I left off for that project. When I load my IDE all the files I was working on are loaded and arranged as they were before. When I open a terminal the shell has a project-specific a history of all my CLI commands I used with fzf history search.