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How can you reliably communicate to your future self?

497 sats \ 11 comments \ @SimpleStacker 8h ideasfromtheedge

Here's a weird thing I struggle with in teaching.

Sometimes when I do a lesson, there are a few things I want to change. But because I teach on a semester-by-semester basis, it's going to be 6 months until I have a chance to actually make that change. If I don't leave a note to my 6-month-future self, I'm absolutely going to forget about this thing that I wanted to change. It's already happened multiple times in my teaching career where I forgot to make a change because of the time lag between when I think of the change, and when I actually need to execute the change.

Figuring out how to communicate reliably to my 6 month future self is a bit of a challenge.

Do you ever try to communicate to your future self? How do you do it and how can you do it reliably?

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43 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 7h

I regularly use FutureMe to write letters for my future self each year

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 7h

Nice tool! What do you write to yourself?

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 7h

Just how life is going, what I hope to achieve this year ‘n stuff

40 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 8h

I once asked @lopp how he remembered all the anniversaries of bitcoin naysaying. He has a calendar he keeps them in when he sees them. Maybe you could do something similar - leave yourself a note in a calendar?

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 8h

If it’s an interface issue, maybe writing an email to yourself and snoozing it would work?

80 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 7h

Oh, that’s very similar to FutureMe that I mentioned in #911049

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 7h

Both good ideas! I wonder why I didn't think of it.

I think it's because I don't know my calendar 6 months in advance, so I wasn't thinking in terms of dates and times. But I should be able to leave a calendar item in approximately the right week, and then just adjust when the actual date gets closer. Thanks!

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 57m

This is just a random brain storming thought of how to gamerfly it.

What if:

There was a service that could let you make a note (the thing you want to remember) and pay some number of sats to submit.

Then the user would get back the sats if they redeem the note in the future.

This would incentives the user to search notes on the service for the topic they are working on. You would hate to "forget" about your sats from last semester.

Feedback appreciated.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 2h

tasks in google calendar

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 3h

I have this problem too. I need to review my department curriculum every year.

I think the key is to maintain the momentum. These days, I make edits on the go and update the changes on my blog (where I may garner a few cents to keep myself motivated). As long as I don’t stop, I will reach the final goal at the end. The danger of waiting six months to make changes is that we assume that our lives will be freer in the future, but we don’t know the pile of stuff we have to deal with then. Better to make incremental changes asap

This is my half-completed post on reviewing prefixes

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mrtali 4h

I just write on a notebook. Then I read after years.