ADHD tools, time and systems
Apps, low-tech tools, to-do lists, goal planning, time blindness and time management.
A new app feels like progress. Switching apps every month is a hobby, not a system.
Simple tools win because they are always visible.
External tools do the remembering so your working memory can do the thinking.
Complicated systems collapse. Simple ones bend.
Support usually works best in layers: medical care, skills, environment and people.
Match the strategy to where you get stuck.
A list of forty items is a guilt archive.
“Taxes” is a project. “Find last year’s return” is a task.
Big yearly goals fade. Twelve weeks is close enough to feel real.
Planning forward underestimates time. Planning backward exposes it.
Many people with ADHD sense time poorly. There is now and not now.
The minutes between tasks are where time vanishes.
Your output comes in waves. Plan around them.
Most hacks fade. These tend to last.
Women are often diagnosed in adulthood after years of masking and coping alone.
You have probably been trying harder than most people for years.