Any tips for a slow beginner?

its a video by Gm. Igor Smirnov of most common mistakes

Discovering I have some work to do to get used to reading chess books, lol. Checking a board, etc. while reading. I'll figure it out. Anyways, tomorrow I plan on starting a rating run on lichess while trying out a couple of different openings. Chess.com being my main rating play for the openings I am actually familiar with, anything I get used to I can start playing here. I expect to fail and mess up a good deal, so I suppose the real goal is to keep playing and losing even as my brain screams at me. Eventually I'll learn the patterns and main ideas until they become habit and instinct, just have to take that step.

Anyways, something I wanted to ask, do you know the best way to store custom puzzles? I'm looking for a place to stash a bunch of them. I want to be able to start a puzzle without knowing if it's checkmate or not, etc.  

store them? what do you mean.

you can import them and take screenshots of the board, or you can just save the FENs/PGNs somewhere.

Your one and only priority right now should be not to hang pieces.     

I want a place to do a bunch of custom puzzles that I have. Mostly ones that I have spotted and kept to do again later.

A lot of advice out there.  I havent tried to read any of it, so I cant give you any opinion about what others have said.  But  I did search to see if anyone mentioned daily chess, and there was only one mention and that was on the first page.   I think daily chess could be helpful.  You can think about each move with plenty of time, and you wouldnt fry your focus by spending a lot of time in one long game.   The moves that dont require a lot of thought can be made quickly, and the more difficult positions can be evaluated with more time.   You will learn more by playing slower chess.   Eventually you will pick up speed and stamina and it wont be so exhausting to play a long game.  Good luck.  And dont be discouraged.  Chess can be fun at all levels.    

TL;DR

Don't forget to try to figure out what your opponent is doing with every move and act accordingly. Don’t just follow your own plan and ignore your opponent’s moves.

But don't follow your opponent plan only.

Try to keep balance.

Here is a chess channel on Telegram that teaches openings for free. Here is the link - https://t.me/quality_chess_openings

Mentioning this in case you forgot. No worries if you haven't had time recently. 

Hi. To me it always seems helpful to narrow down the time. It is totally fine to play 30 min games as long as you don't always play them. Ex. You can play 6 30 min games and then try 20 min and then 15 min and so on. You don't have to always play short games but it's good practice to narrow them down as you play more.

I am in a similar boat but actually have post concussive syndrome.  Attention and speed are issues.  I try to vary the practices I do and find some warm ups with puzzles or solo chess helpful.

I disagree. The Lessons, puzzles, and access to help are much better on Chess.com. 

Here are some tips you might find useful:

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

sorry, i havent been online that much lately - our chess nationals are coming up

Play rapid, analyze your games, and do tactics. All you need to do at that level is to play slow, learn from your mistakes, and know how to seize the opportunity when your opponent makes a mistake.

4 months from complete noob to 950 rating?!

That's actually a good improvement!

I too felt impatient when I coudn't break 1200 in 6 months, but if there is something I learnt from chess, it's patience.

No problem, just wanted to make sure you remembered. Just post it when you can, I can wait. 

Who are beginners ?

I consider myself a beginner for example.. no doubts.. but what level of raiting one must to get in order to stop already to be a beginning player?