Glancing at my 1.5GB screenshots folder
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5364920
just for good measures
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/memes by /u/brylex1 on 2025-03-10 03:01:06+00:00.
In the immediate future, the screenshot archive becomes unmanageable.
In the long term future, it becomes the modern equivalent of what your parents and grandparents got out of keeping a scrapbook or photo album.
I've been chronically online since 1997. Going through a scrap folder which I held onto when decommissioning an old PC or phone brings back all kinds of memories. I even find that noting the changes in my meme taste can be really useful for identifying points where I've grown as a person. That, in turn, leads to reprocessing old memories and identifying ways in which I brought something to the table which facilitated some of my own bad experiences. That helps me heal.
Jokes on you, I just keep tab groups on my phone. Only 3 groups of 500 tabs are hanging out and it's it's own overwhelming problem...
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
F u four calling me out like that but also thank you for validating my feelings.
what's worse is when it's a store you wanna check out but don't want the advertisement to get credit, and when you finally DO remember to check it out, the store is gone cause it was a scam all along
I leave a bunch of of tabs on my phone web browser until i can't take anymore (around 15/20 tabs) then i organize everything with bookmarks so i can, maybe, some day, who knows, if i feel like it and the planets align, i might take a look on them, just maybe
I know that in the future AI will scour my screenshot folder and group everything neatly, add tags even.
Hope is a wonderful drug
Also maybe we will be able to prompt our pc with a local open source model “pick all science related screenshots and group by the topic” - sure 1344 results, do you want to see them?, no list all the topics, - astronomy(34), quantum(23), ethnology(10)
Newer Pixel phones can do this already, and I quite like it. Basically a local model on the device writes a text description for each screenshot, and you can sort/categorize them based on that. It will refuse to describe particularly spicy screenshots (either political or graphic), but perhaps that's a good thing.
You do need to sell your soul to the corpo overlords though and join the Google ecosystem, which I continue to have mixed feelings about.
I wonder if there is a way to do this on a degoogled graphene OS installed pixel phone.
BTW, I'm looking for a source of a cheap pixel 6 or newer phone for privacy purposes (to install graphene OS on), I'm a disabled activist on a fixed income so it's hard to afford stuff like that most of the time but at the same time it's becoming more and more important to take measures like that for privacy, if anyone is interested in a trade or otherwise has a good idea for how I can get one, please let me know.
Not just screenshots. I have literally hundred thousand photos of which about 50% are neatly in the correct folders and the rest are a complete mess that I don't even want to look at. If I spent like 5 minutes each day organizing them I'd sort it out in no time but I just can't get myself doing it.
This is my non - organisation system too... For everything which I don't have to keep decently for some external purpose. Even though I also love to organise stuff ha.
I did manage to get everything onto a 2TB harddrive, so now I have decades of irregularly organised chaos (more or less, I lost some of it several times through not backing up) all in one place - yay!
Also, despite all intentions to the contrary, I'm doing exactly the same thing with my newer devices lol (that's the hollow laughter of despair).
Stop getting personal
Did it unconsciously.
Fortunately the web ui doesn’t tell me how many bookmarks I have.
I go a step further and (browser) bookmark each post I save. All of the bookmarks are sorted by Comments vs Post, and Community. This means I can ensure that I can search by the title of the post in my bookmarks.
Stop attacking me!
Then you forget or misremember the name of the site or idea, and it’s just lost in a sea of broken dreams.
Wait before you hear of OCD :D
Wait until you hear about OCD ADHD combined. I recommend everyone use https://obsidian.md/. It's my trapper keeper and I've managed to funnel everything into it into their own little boxes in a rather automated fashion... Combine that with a little self hosting and you've got an orchestra for the chaos gremlin that you can drop and pick up again as many times as you want. I regularly mix up my toys and tools to keep it interesting as long as they funnel into obsidian eventually. I literally have about 200 obsidian extensions and everything syncs across network and devices lol.
With enough ADHD individuals' Obsidian notes combined, we will be able to release a book based on the summarised self help articles. "Survive ADHD, OCD Anything, the book.", the first page will feature an FAQ, and a link to the audiobook version.
I thought to myself. This looks neat, I’ll check it out. Went to the page, then to the App Store to install it. Already had it. Doh!!
I just screenshotted this.
I self host a bookmark tool literally called hoarder. Save stuff to it all the time, never ever go look at it.
Hey guess what? I screenshotted it :D
And you can tie in AI ✨! So you can make an LLM categorize the stuff that you'll never look at again.
No thanks.
Honestly, I think this was probably the initial product idea for this Microsoft Recall shit. If I could have something like that running locally, open-source and with a non-insane security architecture, I'd never again use a folder in my life.
Dump it all to ~/mytrashpile and let the AI figure out what I want I'm looking for 😄
Yeeeah for me it's https://readeck.org/en/ ...but same :D
Is this everyone or do I have adhd?
Just like basically every mental attribute, ADHD is a spectrum. I've been diagnosed ADHD but don't have it half as bad as many of the people here seem to, and yet I've also had a variety of bad reactions to every medication I've tried. Other people may have a few symptoms but not enough to bother getting a diagnosis, as it may not affect their daily lives at all.
But also I'm another person who has too many favorites to ever properly read through, so this is a definitely real, medically valid internet comment diagnosis that you undoubtedly have ADHD
Also there is a problem with some clinics diagnosing adhd ad hoc
You just go they talk to you and bam you get diagnosis after one hour of half assed interview and questionnaire. It’s more or less harmless for individual imo but you waste money and time where the problem may be something different
I don’t know how to approach this fake half assed diagnosis topic but it has disturbed my inner peace and itches the back of the brain
This is something everyone does in varying degree and does not necessarily mean you have ADHD.
Looking at this behaviour in isolation says nothing WRT whether or not you have ADHD...so the answer is maybe, maybe not.
Man, I'm asking myself the same since I found this community.
Downloading this to my meme archive I'm never gonna use 🫣
See also: my 473 open browser tabs
I double dare you to close all. It's the best legal rush.
These ideas are getting refined by fermenting in my tab stack!
At work I use tab groups to keep them organized by project, so I can tell just how far behind/how overwhelmed I am with a given project by the count of tabs in a given tab group.
It’s a highly effective way to quantify my work-related anxiety.
Wow. I signed up for a service to do this and it’s mostly filled with memes or funny stuff. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Haha this is definitely me 😂
Why are you like this?!
Sop assaulting my personality.