Yesterday I discovered MyStickies (hat tip to Spyndle). I've been using it since then, and I really like it. Based on what it does now -- and what the creators indicate it will eventually do -- MyStickies might become the ultimate social bookmarking tool for the ADHD crowd.

The ADHD crowd???

You see, my problem is not a lack of decent bookmarking tools. I currently use Yahoo's MyWeb 2.0, another tool currently in private beta, and, to a lesser extent, del.icio.us. Instead my problem is three-fold:

• If I get distracted before I can bookmark something, it doesn't get bookmarked
• Even if it does get bookmarked, there's an excellent chance I won't take the time to retrieve -- or remember that I even created -- that bookmark unless it's really important
• In order to keep my bookmarks from becoming cluttered with things that are not important over the long run, I only bookmark the stuff I really care about and anticipate caring about in the future.

I also have a related, but non-web-based problem: I can't remember jack. I leave myself notes; I use Outlook's calendar and tasks list with a healthy dose of the reminder feature and then sync it with my PDA; I set alarms in my cell phone. I'm still hopeless because I never find the notes, or the reminders/alarms occur when I cannot stop what I'm doing to deal with them -- or I shouldn't deal with them, but I get distracted by them and then forget to do the thing I was doing when I got interrupted by the reminder.

Most people with ADHD I've talked to have these same problems.

Enter MyStickies. To bookmark the page you are viewing, all you have to do is click on the "New Sticky" button and write. Because you can view all your stickies from your Accounts page, you can use MyStickies like you would use the current social bookmarking sites. However, because it is so very easy to slap a note on the page you are viewing, and later delete that note when you're through with it, it also makes sense to use MyStickies for things you wouldn't bother to bookmark as well as for setting reminders. And the fact that you can place a sticky on any page, means that the reminder appears when it's relevant and at a time when you can deal with it. For instance, I might put a note on my company's online calendar reminding me that I need to schedule a meeting. (What better time to schedule a meeting than when you're already looking at your calendar, eh?) Or I might place the URL of a new movie I heard about in a sticky on my favorite movies site so that the next time I'm in the mood for a movie I find my note.

I am so loving MyStickies!

My one concern -- which wasn't a concern until I read some of the comments at Jacob Wright's blog -- is privacy. As was pointed out there, if the MyStickies extension automatically displays the stickies you've placed on any given page, it must check every page you visit to see if you've placed a sticky there. Are those site visits being logged or discarded? I would hope discarded, but I haven't seen that stated anywhere. If they are being logged, I would be much happier if MyStickies would become an AttentionTrust member and also build into the MyStickies tool what the Attention Recorder has: A "do not record visits to this site" option.