I know there are some notepads that divers use but I was more hoping for something specifically for the shower that I could maybe stick to the wall like a waterproof whiteboard maybe? I’ve had no success searching online unfortunately.
Shower faster? How long are you in the shower to have time to develop good ideas and have time to forget them?
I’d just shout out those random ideas and hopefully my partner is right outside the bathroom to hear them.
Set your phone just outside the shower with a voice recording app on and recording?
Bonus points if you sing out the ideas, and even more if you can rhyme them.
So many suggestions for putting your phone near the shower but outside of it… phones are waterproof now. I just bring my phone with me in the shower now, and use my notes app to write down anything I don’t want to forget. I was already using it for a shower checklist, since I find it pretty hard to function in the shower. Also doubles as a way to consistently clean my phone, which is a nice plus, I likely wouldn’t remember to specifically clean it very often otherwise.
If your phone has a charge port plug, make sure to keep that in during the shower, if it doesn’t have a plug, keep the port oriented down, or you may have to wait a couple hours to be able to charge after. I’ve had my last couple phones in the shower hundreds of times now over the past 10 years, only had it happen twice where the charge port got too wet and had to dry before I could charge it, and neither time was when the battery was low enough for it to matter.
I was already using it for a shower checklist, since I find it pretty hard to function in the shower
Hypersensory Autism, in my case. But both are relatively common, so could be what it is in many peoples cases here. For me a shower is so much sensory input, I am basically forced introspective. Takes alot of willpower to keep awareness and move to the next thing on the checklist.
That must be difficult. Glad you’ve found a solution to make it work, and I’m sorry things I take for granted are that big of an obstacle for others
Phones are water resistant and that goes down with pressured water.
Also, you take your phone in the shower. Too much for me that.
Unless the water at the bottom of your shower is several feet deep, the water pressure in a shower is gonna be nearly 0. You can leave the phone off most of the time, just have it there to jot something down. Ideally, you want it as unobtrusive as possible anyway since the whole point of thinking well in the shower is not having distractions.
Mine just sits there on the checklist 99% of the time, and I just made the checklist in the same notes app, so I don’t even have to leave the app to write stuff down.
Aqua Notes!
I don’t use them in the shower, but you can get wetnotes from stores that sell scuba gear. Something like this should be good https://scubapro.johnsonoutdoors.com/us/shop/accessories/wetnotes-underwater-notebook
There are waterproof pencil and paper sets that you can attach to the wall with suction cups. I have a set and use it pretty frequently when I have some sudden shower inspiration that I don’t want to lose.
If you have glass partitions try a grease pencil or oil based crayon on the glass(There’s another name but I’m brain-farting on it. Oil pastels, maybe. Gah, medication that effects your memory sucks.).
You could maybe fab up a thick glass pane with a plastic backer and keep it in the shower. Hanging it might be tricky. I used to love hitting up the weird leftover building supply type places or even flea markets for weird stuff to repurpose.
The white board idea works, but you’d need one, with pen, that is specifically water proof.
Maybe experiment with different pieces of plastic from your local big box or hardware store and a grease pencil.
Grease pencil should write on just about any surface in the shower.
Good idea!
If there was ever a good use case for a voice assistant, this would be it.
I mean, you could set your phone outside the shower and record your shower, just speak out your idea and transcribe it after the shower.
I just convince myself that they are not very good ideas. (RIP Mitch Hedburg).
Grease pen on the shower wall.
Seriously, I do this too! Then after my shower I’ll come back and take a photo with my phone so I don’t lose it.
I set up a mic on a stand right outside the shower curtain, and try to forget about it
You can get bath crayons for kids that let you write directly on the wall of the shower or w/e. Searching brings up lots of options…
I just make a mental note, like a one word trigger that will remind me of the idea later
Lol, look at Mr. Neurotypical here! 😜
I’m not busting your balls, seriously, I’m just jealous of people who have a memory like yours.
My mother is like you - she remembers the entire grocery list, and has never in her life written one, so I grew up not knowing about making lists - and I have zero short-term (working) memory. This means unless I work very hard at moving things to long-term memory they’re just lost. I don’t even remember the last thing I said in a conversation.
Hey, I’m Mx AuDHD too! I just figured out to remember some stuff in a way that works for me :p
