For me, the main reason why if I don’t reply to a comment straight away I don’t reply to it ever, is that I forget to. Sometimes (twice a month or so) I re-read my inbox to make sure there aren’t comments I meant to reply to but forget to. And when I remember to, I don’t click on the inbox icon (so it stays red) unless I’m on a device on which it’s comfortable for me to reply.
Have you considered writing those things down? My life got immediately and significantly better after I started writing down all the things I have to do. Even though I didn’t know it, forgetting about things had been a huge problem for me, so writing it all down fixed that problem, eliminated most of the guilt I felt for not getting stuff done, and allowed me to work on things in a sensible order instead of just doing whatever things randomly come to mind.
I occasionally do that, but most often I even forget to do that! I ought to make sure I always have paper and a pencil in my pocket so I can write stuff down as soon as it crosses my mind, so as to overcome the trivial inconvenience of having to get a pencil, which usually makes me just think “I’ll write that down later” (and then forget to).
Well, the idea is to have all the things you have to do written down. (In particular, you should definitely have “making sure I have paper and a pencil in my pocket” on the list!) Do you have such a list right now? How many things are on it? If there are less than twenty, then start writing, and don’t stop until you get to twenty.
Once you have all the stuff written down, you won’t have to bother remembering anything; you can just look at the list.
For me, the main reason why if I don’t reply to a comment straight away I don’t reply to it ever, is that I forget to. Sometimes (twice a month or so) I re-read my inbox to make sure there aren’t comments I meant to reply to but forget to. And when I remember to, I don’t click on the inbox icon (so it stays red) unless I’m on a device on which it’s comfortable for me to reply.
Have you considered writing those things down? My life got immediately and significantly better after I started writing down all the things I have to do. Even though I didn’t know it, forgetting about things had been a huge problem for me, so writing it all down fixed that problem, eliminated most of the guilt I felt for not getting stuff done, and allowed me to work on things in a sensible order instead of just doing whatever things randomly come to mind.
I occasionally do that, but most often I even forget to do that! I ought to make sure I always have paper and a pencil in my pocket so I can write stuff down as soon as it crosses my mind, so as to overcome the trivial inconvenience of having to get a pencil, which usually makes me just think “I’ll write that down later” (and then forget to).
Well, the idea is to have all the things you have to do written down. (In particular, you should definitely have “making sure I have paper and a pencil in my pocket” on the list!) Do you have such a list right now? How many things are on it? If there are less than twenty, then start writing, and don’t stop until you get to twenty.
Once you have all the stuff written down, you won’t have to bother remembering anything; you can just look at the list.