Had to stop for IRL reasons. Was about to build a coal depot but I knew that saving at a blank screen would be confusing.

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I don’t. I’m a software developer in my day job and during that I need to keep my ADHD in check with task lists and tickets…

So whenever I play I pick up something that looks fun and roll with it… if I forgot some plans midstream then I just let them go and do something else.

I, specifically, never want a TODO list item that I’m not looking forward to to be hanging over my head - because then I’ll never pick up the save file again.

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That’s one way!

You can also add map markers to your map, with an icon and text. I’ve used these to set goals / reminders of what should be worked on in that area.

My general method to remember what I need to do next session is to name my saves that way. Like “start coal depot.sav”, or “finish steel, fr this time, no distractions.sav”.

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Last night my in game alarm went off for low power. I was about to fix it, so I muted it. But then I realized I was done for the night, so I turned it back on, saved, and exited.

So there is no way I forget what my next task is.

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I use a kanban, or you can make notes with the in-game displays

https://gokanban.io

Or a Google doc, or just a paper on your desk with notes. :)

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That’s a real “factorio teaches you software engineering” kind of moment.

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The in-game displays are real nice. Was playing around with them this week.

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I’ve often thought that Factorio needs a comment block / sign post / notepad for just such a thing

I often leave my reminder on a post-it note on my monitor. Sometimes those get lost and then I have to depend on my own memory (dubious)

Recently I was in the middle of fixing up a facility that wasn’t working right when opposite sides of my base got hit hard by bugs. They broke through walls while I was travelling to repair the first attack, just a mess all around.

Anyway, I decided I didn’t want to deal with the cleanup right away because it was already getting late, so I left a sticky note. Then it took me a couple days to get back to the game and the note went missing. I remembered to clean up and shore up the defenses, but I forgot that the thing I had been working on before the attack wasn’t quite finished. Came back to it a week later to see why my resources weren’t getting shipped before I realized what happened.

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I’ve often thought that Factorio needs a comment block / sign post / notepad for just such a thing

They added a display panel just recently for this! It’s actually pretty nice and can display on the mini-map if you wish. It can even display different things based on circuit conditions, if you want to get fancy!

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Oh, “always show the first line” makes the line shown “independently of the mouse being over the device” and not “independently of the logical condition”.

I still think that setting needs a better name.

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This is exactly what I’ve been using since 2.0. Right before I close the game, I plop one of these down nearby with text reminding me what I’m gonna do next.

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