It's funny, I frequently guess the time/price correctly, but estimating how long a task will take is beyond me Just like my short term memory sucks, but somehow I remember sequences of numbers really well, even if I just saw them once. Twice will ingrain into my brain until I use the sequence (if it's a one time thing) or just stay in my brain for longer, if I keep using the sequence once in a while. Everybody's always like "how do you do that?" and I really don't know... Then I forget to take laundry out of the machine, or that I wanted to eat/sleep/pee/have sex/whatever. It's like my brain is empty sometimes I have Swiss cheese for a brain xD

I was doing well yesterday, but today I somehow don't register when it's pomodoro time and when it's break time. I'll get a signal the time ended and I thought it was pomodoro, but turns out now it's pomodoro, so when did my break go? Did I even launch the break time?
Maybe I should go back to the timers just automatically start the time...

Checking the time manually doesn't really work for me, I get too distracted with the phone, even if I only intend tocheck the time, I somehow manage to go on apps. At the very least I'll be checking the time every 2 minutes At least that's the issue I had when I was working remotely. Now I guess I'm afraid to start more serious stuff than reading and working like a normal job, but at home, for free, for myself sounds like it's too much effort and I'd rather stay here on kofk or whatch youtube mindlessly, even though I know I have nothing interesting to watch.

Do you have any other technique recommendations for me? I don't know that many and I don't know what else to try out...

Nobody can blame you for being unmotivated to work for that guy, honestly, what a little bitch XD

Haha, yes, undoing knots! I think my tiny fingers are the factor with that

Yeah... I often "take my medicine in a minute" and then three hours later I remember I didn't and I mentally and physically slap myself because it's now too late for that dose

memoriam wrote: Checking the time manually doesn't really work for me, I get too distracted with the phone...

Do you have any other technique recommendations for me? I don't know that many and I don't know what else to try out...

Why look at the phone? Just check the time on your computer, lol. It's hard to get distracted by glancing down to the corner of the screen you are already using :P

Let's see... I can do things by piece of work. So, ex, I will write X number of words and then I will take a break (with a timer, or perhaps with a specific break action like "read one chapter of a book"). It's hard to stay on track of course if you're tempted to have a longer break, but you just have to stick with it. The more you do the habit, the easier it gets.
What else... Another thing I do is schedule my day hour by hour. So if I'm having a day when I know I need to give myself a bit of a break, I will go by where I am on my schedule. Let's say it's 11am, my schedule says I need to write 1000 words. This usually takes me actually about 20 minutes, so around 11:20 or 11:25 I'm most likely done. Now it's 35 minutes until the next time I need to work, so I might set an alarm for 12pm and then just relax. And if I feel like getting started on the next thing early, that's good too, I can just do a bit here and there and it means in the next hour I might have even more break time.
There are also blockers and things you can use to stop yourself from procrastinating. You can have apps which block your phone's other apps unless you mark them as essential - so for example you could allow yourself to access your notes app if you need it but block social media and games. And there's a site called Dayboard which I use, it can be a plugin on Google Chrome and probably maybe other browsers too, where you tell it what are your top five goals for the day and whenever you open a new tab these pop up first to remind you to keep working on them. And you can also format that plugin to restrict how much time you're allowed to spend on sites that aren't useful for work, it will literally just shut the page down and tell you to go back to work XD

@Moi: Same,tiniest chains aren't a problem for me either
I should check my eyes, I feel my sight has gotten a little bit worse, but maybe it's just my brain telling me to so yet another thing before I start doing any work

@jacob: Right, I didn't think about it XD Maybe because lately I've been doing tasks that don't require a PC, so I don't even open it and rely on my phone. Also, I downloaded a pomodoro app that has no distractions in it and so I don't check the time as in hours/minutes, I just look at the timer how much more I have until the break
Pop-up reminders would drive me crazy and make me not want to get to work just because soemthing tells me to do it XD but that "shut the browser, Susan, you're supposed to be working!" thing sounds like it might help me

Oh! Then that wouldn't work for me either way, I usually procrastinate on just one tab, kofk or Youtube xD

If I don't see something as clearly as I used to, it annoys the hell out of me. When I'm out I avoid wearing my glasses, because of the masks and wind blowing my hair on my face and my glasses getting crazy dirty outside for no fucking reason and I end up even more annoyed. But on a computer or for reading I really need my glasses. It's annoying when you see words with a shadow or don't see details properly. Plus it wrecks my spine.

Ew, yeah, my eyes are still good enough to see all the spiders on my building even without the glasses on. XP I usually just go "dontlookupdontlookupdontlookupdontlooksidewaysdontlookup"

Maybe it won't be that bad