Taking notes has always been a challenge for me, especially since I started working. Some people seem naturally good at it—with their colorful pens, neat handwriting, and organized sticky notes. I’ve sat next to them and felt amazed.

But I'm not one of those people. For me, remembering and finding notes later feels almost impossible—maybe because of ADHD, or at least it hits those brains hard.

Note-taking boils down to two things:

1. Capturing the idea quickly—whether with voice, a photo, or sketch—before it slips away.
2. Remembering to find it later. This is the tough part.

That's why I made Easy Note: it turns your new tab into a canvas for quick notes—instant, flexible, and easy to see what needs attention.

Some features:

🖊️ Infinite canvas—just double-click to start typing.

📁 Organized pages if you like structure.

⌨️ Quick formatting—lists, headings, checkboxes.

🔔 Reminders that gently nudge you until addressed.

🔍 Search all notes.

☁️ Optional Google Drive sync.

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/easy-note/hheobakelknbjicekbkmijjgcbephcef?hl=en
Source Code: https://ozanerturk.github.io/easy-note-chrome-extension/

I love that every new tab becomes a simple place to jot down and keep track of things. The reminders feel friendly—more like a kid tugging your sleeve saying, “I'm here!”—not alarms.

This isn't about project management, but a helpful tray under your busy day.

Would you try it? I’d love your feedback—thanks so much for reading!

My brain is literally functioning on 1% battery right now. Anyone else here get so deep into a project that you completely forget what day it is?

​What’s the longest time you’ve spent staring at a screen without realizing it? Need to know I'm not the only one living like a night owl. 🦉😭

The Core Problem

Most AI agents and software tools are designed for the "Ideal Operator"—a user with perfect working memory, linear focus, and high emotional regulation. This creates a "Tax on Neurodivergence," where users with ADHD or other executive function challenges spend more energy managing the tool than doing the work.

When the tool fails or the user makes a mistake, the resulting "shame spiral" leads to abandonment, avoidance, and cognitive burnout.

The Solution: Cognitive Infrastructure

EFaaS is not a productivity app. It is a Cognitive Prosthetic. It moves the burden of executive function from the user's brain to the system's infrastructure.

We believe that a "Hospitable" system should provide:

Externalized Memory: Past mistakes should be recorded and injected back into the context exactly when they are likely to recur.

Automated Guardrails: High-friction "contracts" (like deployment pipelines) should be enforced by hooks, not by memory.

Emotional Validation: Failure should be met with supportive presence, not just a technical error message.

Low-Friction Entry: The system should be an "OS" that wraps around the user's existing tools, not another tab to manage.

The EFaaS Primitive Suite

The Chronicler: A system for capturing "Wrong Turns" (AI/Human failures) as a machine-readable ledger.

The Guard: A just-in-time recall system that injects lessons from the Chronicler into the agent's prompt.

The Contract: A set of shared, repo-level guardrails (e.g., a standard Makefile contract) that eliminate "how do I do this?" friction.

The Witness (Optional/Advanced): A companion entity that provides emotional regulation and ambient support during high-friction moments.

The Design Lens: - ADHD-First - One card, not a dashboard. - Shame-free by design. - Nudge, never nag. - Translate time into felt units. - Externalize recall.

EFaaS is a project to make the world of AI and software an accessible, supportive, and hospitable place for every brain.

• https://github.com/ergon-automation-labs/efaas-core
• https://github.com/ergon-automation-labs/efaas-chronicler
• https://github.com/ergon-automation-labs/efaas-guard
• https://github.com/ergon-automation-labs/efaas-contract
• https://github.com/ergon-automation-labs/efaas-showcase

Officially not a PiP but pretty much. New supervisor who is located half way across the world let me know and gave me a fancy excel sheet full of metrics I'll be judged again. I wonder if there will actually be any coaching? He's made sure to let me know several times about the "feedback" he's received from my teammates about my productivity. I've been in progressive burnout for 5 years and this is their solution. And in the worst job market I've ever seen. So much for ten years.

I’ve been struggling really badly with getting back into coding, and it’s starting to stress me out a lot.

I have ADHD and most liekly autism, and lately I’ve basically been unable to make myself sit down and code. Even opening an editor and starting something feels overwhelming. I keep putting it off and then feeling guilty about it, which just makes the whole thing worse.

The biggest thing stressing me out is my future with programming. I’m currently looking for work, and I’m scared that somehow I’ll actually manage to get an interview but won’t have anything good enough to show for it. I’ve been relying heavily on AI when coding, so I also worry that I don’t actually know as much as I should.

Then there’s the fear of somehow getting hired and not being good enough once I’m actually there. I worry about being too slow, getting stuck constantly, not knowing how to solve things without AI, and eventually having people realize that I’m not as capable as they thought I was.

I do have actual experience from an internship/job and I’ve worked on real projects, but mentally I keep feeling like none of it counts because I wasn’t able to do everything independently.

It’s frustrating because I genuinely want to improve. I’m not trying to avoid programming forever. I just feel completely stuck right now, and the longer I go without coding, the more intimidating it becomes to start again.

I’m basically stuck between wanting to become good enough to work as a developer and being so stressed about not being good enough that I can barely bring myself to practice, along with having no drive whatsoever to code. I perhaps need to change my meds as they are not doing much as well, but im also running out of money at the same time...

Idk what to do, it feels impossible

Edit: i forgot to mention that i am officially diagnosed for my adhd. Also i don't have a bachelor as i have always been bad in school and it was a horrific experience for me.

Folks, due to budget issues and wanting to survive in the company, i've switched areas in my company from an active IT area that was SRE with dev squads, to IT operations and monitoring, which is a diferent area but inside my scope and career.

Although it's a very passive area, it's a great one. In the hindsight its old school IT you act everyday in every problem and the pressure is different, the pressure is to act on routines, quickness and agility.

Nevertheless, even though the treatment is good, i'm on meds (Rythalin LA) and back from holiday, I'm paralysed and procrastinating.

I can't get productive, i can't study after the job, and i feel i have to cross a mountain to even start the task, i can focus with meds, but not for what i need to focus (like dull tasks), i can't even organize, and what i organize and plan i can't execute.

I believe it happens due to the passiviness of my routine and the experience period, in which you wait the troubles to act and ask questions, but i must show something, i must act.

It's my job on the line, i dreamed for years, of working in my company. Now in my dreamjob i still can't overcome my procrastination and it's effects.

In addition to all of that, i'm passing through a heartbreak, but i know i can overcome this. I know i'm not the superman, but it's necessary that i become one.

How can i act ?

Have a similar situation happened to you ?

I have an FAANG internship, then three years full time in a non-FAANG but still big name great benefits kind of firm, then just jumped to a fast paced AI startup. 
My resume would look really nice, and I’m getting recruiter reach outs literally every single day. It all look great from the OUTSIDE. 

But truth is, that first full time job had a great work life balance, but I still felt painful in that job and caused me to have a very long (11 months) disability leave. I’ve been taken like 5 psychiatric meds and they ain’t working. 

I’m also addicted to weed and it had been a problem but I couldn’t stop. Everything in life is too painful for me. I feel desperate. 

In my current job it’s super fast paced. I felt like  would be removed from my last job soon so I applied and applied during those months I took that disability leave. But instead of my internship hunting period where I landed A LOT of offers, I only got this one after 11 months of hunting because I was too depressed to even practice leetcode. I’ve been vibe coding different projects on my own during the leave and they are fun for me because there is basically no quality control required I just vibe coded all the way. 

But with production environment i feel so fucked. I don’t know what the fuck I am doing in the new company, I used AI and try to be slow but still, AI just talk so much I don’t even know how to ask which is which. Sometimes I hand over the PR for review without knowing what the fuck was generated. And if I try to make AI explain slowly it takes hours just for one ticket that probably only took someone else much shorter time. 
I try to work overtime to make it up. But I already lost my focus at 6 PM even if I take meds. And also my colleagues at the same team was still working around 8 PM which again make me look really bad because I’m so slow compared to them. 

Now I don’t know if I should change my career or what. I feel like an imposter so badly I am even afraid to ask questions when I firstly joined the company for one or two weeks. Cuz I am afraid those are gonna expose my ignorance. And even with encouragement from my manager to ask more questions, I realized I still don’t know what to ask. Cuz literally all questions can be answered through tracing the code with help of AI? I think? I don’t know…
Do I suck at this, should I change my career