Who else lives their entire life on backlog? Whenever I find

Yep. Reading/writing lists of stuff to watch/read/play is more fun than actually watching/reading/playing. I autistically collect recommendation charts from /tv/ and /a/ and spend hours crossing off all the stuff I've already seen, rather than actually using them for recommendations.

I blame internet addiction. Those classic movies aren't going anywhere, but if you don't F5 4chan right now you might miss something cool and then it's gone forever. Whenever my internet goes down for a day or two I make a ton of backlog progress. Maybe you should try intentionally switching your internet off for a day and see if that helps you focus.

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>>38210448
>I blame internet addiction. Those classic movies aren't going anywhere, but if you don't F5 4chan right now you might miss something cool and then it's gone forever.
You've described that feeling very succinctly.

>Reading/writing lists of stuff to watch/read/play is more fun than actually watching/reading/playing
Exactly. Even as much as I love something and know that it's relevant to my interests and likes, while I'm experiencing it, it's like I'm just waiting until it's over the whole time so I can mark it down as "finished".

>Whenever my internet goes down for a day or two I make a ton of backlog progress.
That just makes me have to work harder to find what newly uploaded comic books I have missed downloading and what threads I've missed out on. I really am hopeless.

Holy shit, I have a list for absolutely everything. I have about 400 films, 2000 albums/artists, 100 books, 50 video games, 50 shows and anime, and an uncountable shitload of bookmarks full of even more of the above and random information that I'll probably never even put to use. My youtube watch later list is filled with 2000 videos as well - mostly music but still.

The worst part is that I plan on getting through every single one of those, but I don't see it as a complete waste of time. Every time I go through one of the above I make notes of the best parts or save them. I save all the best songs or videos in their own playlists and copy every neat line I hear or read that I think is even moderately clever or well-put. I also privately review almost every movie and album I see and make notes of the best shots or parts so that hopefully one day I could go back to them and get the inspiration to make one of my own.

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>>38210867
Thank you so much for posting this, I relate to this fucking hard, particularly:
>Every time I go through one of the above I make notes of the best parts or save them. I save all the best songs or videos in their own playlists and copy every neat line I hear or read that I think is even moderately clever or well-put. I also privately review almost every movie and album I see and make notes of the best shots or parts so that hopefully one day I could go back to them and get the inspiration to make one of my own.
I feel like I've always just been waiting for my passions and inspiration to turn into something.

Outside of media, do you make lists for other things? I've made countless iterations of schedules for getting myself to focus on my pursuits and projects, and though, none of it ever really worked, I still work on these lists constantly, re-ordering and re-wording things and adding specific tasks and arranging them in sets almost like in exercise. I make lists of concepts and things to do and organize them based on a broad category like "Language", "Media - Literature", etc., and I've spent years always obsessively checking my notes to remind myself what is important to me and what I am trying to do. I make trying to do bulletpoints from them. I have to look at the notes on my phone every hour or so to try to arrange my thoughts. It's bizarre feeling like I'm living my life through my notes and files like this, all the media I've ever collected and obsessively hoarded and archived, all the journals and records I've written that may never be read by other people, or again by myself, at that.

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>>38211277
>I make trying to do bulletpoints from them.
I don't know where that sentence was supposed to go, I think I vomited out that post just now.

>>38211277
I used to be EXACTLY as you described, to the t, but recently I took the time to realistically plan out my life and stopped worrying because as of now I am in no position - intellectually, artistically, or financially - to carry out some of those visions. I also used to make schedules for everything I wanted to do, but realized that I get distracted way too much for them to really mean anything anyways. I think right now the best thing for me to do is to go full cocoon and spend a year or so making easy money somewhere and actually go through my shit.

>>38211393
Fucking kek
>tfw spend way too much time typing out posts
>they end up reading like shit to me by the time I've posted them anyways
Literally my entire life plan is written in bullet-point format on my phone's memo-pad, kek.

>>38211277
Forgot to answer that I make lists for exercises, recipes, and general advice.

>>38210867

You sound like fun. Would you post screencaps of a few of your lists, and a review or two??

>>38211712
>Would you post screencaps of a few of your lists
I too have interest in this.

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Here's how the movie backlog looks. The movies that I'm more interested in watching immediately I write down on ANOTHER list [see notepad].

Pls ignore the autism names

>>38212087
>The movies that I'm more interested in watching immediately I write down on ANOTHER list
I do something similar, where I will have enough hope of finishing things by keeping it manageable and making a "Current" list or folder filled with priorities and recent things that I intend on clearing out soon, and then as things pile up in that and it overflows to where it's no longer a quick reference, I have to merge it with an older one and then make a new "Current" collection, or I risk having several, as I have now.