Stimming hotkey

How to stop visiting random websites and make ADHD work for you? Idea: create a Stimming hotkey.

It's a nonjudgmental hotkey you can press at any time. Put it on the F5 key or somewhere.

What it does: deliver you a distraction, without expectations on you. It can be called repeatedly if the current distraction does not appeal to you.

It could be:

• a random flashcard (here is an use of in-Emacs flashcards)
• a random item from your Elfeed (Atom/RSS feeds)
• a random book or web excerpt (if you have an incremental reading system)
• a random book
• a random web bookmark

Note that it should be carefully designed to avoid punishing you for anything. So when you decline to do a flashcard, it does not count as a fail. When you decline to continue reading an elfeed item (but may want to read it later), it won't mark the item as read. If you've jumped to a book and for whatever reason scrolled up from your last SavePlace point, it'll just restore that SavePlace point.

An alternative: actually use Anki's Incremental Reading add-on, with the recognition that it's just for stimming and needs not be a complete collection of everything you wish to read. So Anki is always open on a separate desktop & showing the IR deck.

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• My problem with org-fc, org-noter