A distraption happens during the experience of checking your phone/computer for something specific, but falling into the trap of responding to a message or alert (or other distraption) that you find when you go to do your original task, which then gets you lost in a series of follow-on distraptions until you have forgotten what it was you originally wanted to do in the first place.
I wanted to write you that email, but I must have got caught in a distraption, and then before I knew it three-hours had gone by before I remembered, half-way through a making of the Dark Crystal series, that I was supposed to do something important..
by Xplody October 11, 2019