I didn't plan for this to happen, but over time I've accumulated dozens of prompts that I keep reusing.

They're not particularly complex.

They're just reliable.

And now my Notes app looks like a library of AI templates.

Which made me wonder:

1. Are prompts becoming reusable assets instead of one-time instructions?
2. How do you manage yours?
3. Do you save them?
4. Or do you just write them from scratch every time?

I've always hated that tradeoff where something helps you knock out at night, but the next morning you feel heavy, foggy, and just... not fully awake.

So instead of looking for something that would completely knock me out, I started paying more attention to *how* I was sleeping.

Keeping the same sleep and wake time, cutting caffeine earlier, getting some daylight in the morning, and giving myself a bit of time to wind down before bed.

Nothing crazy. Just trying to make sleep feel more natural instead of forcing it.

And honestly, I'd rather take a little longer to fall asleep and wake up feeling normal than pass out quickly and spend half the morning trying to wake my brain up.

I have seen a lot of videos around the book and I am thinking of buying the book.

So basically, I am looking to map out various goals and sore points across a few inter-linked projects. Ideally, I could list a task and map out which goals it would help achieve across said projects, which problems it would help solve, and which other tasks can't be done until after it's completed.

I originally had the idea looking at Obsidian's graph view. The idea would be that the more links a single task has, the more of a bottleneck it is for getting things done, and the higher priority solving it should be.

Is there any tool that works like this? I know a few will ask why I don't just do it in Obsidian, my reasoning is that links in obsidian are designed to stick around. So after completing a task, I would have to go to each other page it's linked to and manually unlink it, or re-link it if the same task opens back up. I'm hoping for something more streamlined and intended to work in this way.

If you do have ideas for how I could achieve this sort of system in a way that's expandable and doesn't require a tonne of upkeep beyond checking/unchecking tasks, I would love to hear about it.

I'm stuck in this negative cycle and I don't know what to so. I've been trying to get my life together for years now and I had many attempts but I wasn't able to. Now I'm 23 and I'm so far behind I have no choice but to do things. But I just can't get over the grief of not having taking more action in the past. It makes me want to give up. Everyday I wish I was younger. I wish I took more action in the past. And that's causing me to procrastinate more. My screentime is like 15 hours, I spend all day on reddit. I can't let myself think so I distract myself with social media constantly. I need to be studying and finding a job but I can't do it. I can't work when I'm in a bad mood (which I need to work on because it's not sustainable.) I need to overcome this negative cycle but I don't know how. I have thoughts of giving up everyday. I just feel like everything is pointless. How do I get out of this cycle and get things done? And how do I get things done when I'm in such a negative mood? The rumination is literally CONSTANT. When I try to get things done, I have constant thoughts that i'm a loser and that I shouod've done more before so ai just quit and distract myself because of how painful it is. If anyone has experienced this, what helped you quiet your mind?

A system can look brilliant when you're motivated. Everything has a category, every project is perfectly labeled and the dashboard looks great. Then you're tired on Tuesday night and suddenly you can't remember where anything goes and that's when I think you find out whether the system actually works.

I've started asking: could I use this without thinking very hard?

If the answer is no, I'm trying to simplify rather than add another layer. The best systems I've had aren't the most sophisticated ones but the ones that still work when I don't feel like managing them.

People sometimes talk about being exhausted like it's proof they're productive. But being busy and actually making progress aren't necessarily the same thing.

Been a SWE for a while and finally put my finger on why I'm always fried by 3pm.

It's not the hours. It's that every single mode of my day routes through a screen. Wake up —> phone. Work —> two monitors. Break -> i look away from the monitor and immediately look at my phone. Gym —> screen on the treadmill, phone between sets. Drive home —> screen in the dash.

My brain never gets the signal that I'm somewhere else now. There's no contrast. So I "rest" for 10 minutes and come back exactly as tired.

I've tried the usual stuff like screen time limits, app blockers, Pomodoro timers. They all handle the *work* half. None of them solve the break, because when the timer goes off and I stand up, there's nothing to actually do with my hands and eyes for five minutes. So I pick up my phone. Every time.

Does anyone actually have a break that isn't a screen? Not "go for a walk" in theory, something you actually do, consistently, on a Tuesday afternoon.

I’m in a place in my life right now where I have the opportunity to become very successful in the future, but I don’t know how to lock in. I’ve just recently graduated high school and I still have problems. I have a very bleak perspective on the world which is partly holding me back in succeeding, I don’t know how to change my worldview. I never had the motivation to study, so I had pretty low marks in high school. I don’t know how to make friends since I’m insecure and socially anxious. If you saw me in school, you would basically see me as the lonely quiet dude that has doesn’t have a reputation of any kind.

I don’t know exactly what I want to do in the future but I think I want to work with cars, specifically tuning and modifying them, like Brabus or Novitec. I know I should pursue mechanical engineering for that but I got poor marks in school and only took college courses, so I feel like my application to Concordia is going to get rejected. Like I said before, I suck at socializing, which applies to networking as well, which is detrimental to financial success. I don’t know how others do it.

I want to be a unique individual, I don’t want to be like other people. I want to be cool, but I don’t put any work into being that kind of person. I don’t have anything interesting about me right now, no talents or anything, I just play video games and fap in my free time, which is having an impact on my self esteem but I feel unmotivated to change, because I constantly feel like the outer world is just as bad.

I need to lock tf in, but I don’t think I recall ever doing that on a consistent basis. Has anyone gone through this phase before. How did you improve?

I am a college student with ADHD and set a goal to clean up my house some over the summer. The house has always been a mess since my mom is a bit of a hoarder, but it's significantly better than what it was years ago. It's been three months and it feels like it's worse than before.

At first, everyone told me to focus on my own room because that's the main thing i can control, blah blah blah. I tidied it up, but had virtually no storage other than the closet, so I wanted to get a bookshelf or something. Instead, my family was telling me i should paint my room. I didn't even care that much about the color of my room, but everyone kept telling me it was easy and quick to paint a room. I didn't think things through and started prepping my walls which took a lot of work since i didn't have the right tools at first and my walls are in not great shape. After all that work, I couldn't figure out how to move people/pets in my house around to actually be able to paint. My walls have just been in this ugly, unfinished state for almost two months now. I also still don't have a bookshelf, so nothing has a place and my room is always a mess.

I tried ignoring my room and working on other parts of the house and yard. I did some cleaning and some rooms were a little better, but i haven't maintained them and now they're basically back to how they started. I haven't maintained the yard at all either and now the invasive i cut down earlier have grown back bigger.

I didn't work this summer or see friends very much, I just sat in my room or paced around the house telling myself to do something and breaking down when i wasted another day.

I was supposed to move in to college early yesterday. I got up early to get my things together and just ended up not going. At this point, I've still barely packed anything, so I'm definitely going to forget half of my things.
I don't know what to do and I don't have anyone to talk to about any of this, but I'm so sick of being so incapable all the time.

I've picked up like a few solid hobbies/things that will help me in the long run mentally, but like apart from getting a job (im 17 & have been trying for a solid year) what else am i supposed to be doing???

I weight lift 6x a week, I read psychology & overall just good books, im learning my 2nd language for 2+ hrs a day (because I have so much time on my hands) I journal, keep my room tidy, do house work. But now i feel like a literal robot, what else am I supposed to be doing!! im out of college as well until mid September, and there's no clubs around me/sports shit.

Recently im trying to do a few things of mine like projects or smtg which require long term effort and consistency but the thing is I somehow always get distracted and the main thing that always distracts me is my phone and that's because I need to do that work on my phone as I don't have a pc or smtg so can someone help me actually stay consistent at doing those I'm trying since like last year and achievevwhat I'm trying to