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I would consider my personal life and career a success both because of my ADHD and in spite of my ADHD. Notebooks, lists, and routines are a constant struggle,
by ghotli 9y ago
I would consider my personal life and career a success both because of my ADHD and in spite of my ADHD. Notebooks, lists, and routines are a constant struggle, but are how I cope.
My current and most effective solution to date is an Android Wear 2.0 watchface that does the following things.
1. Has a list of granular routines I can select. "Work - Start", "Work - Priority", "Home - End", "Let's get started" are all examples of such.
2. I can "load" a list such that I can iterate through tasks one by one _linearly_ and I don't tap my wrist to denote "done" until the task is done.
3. While a list is loaded, my wrist vibrates every thirty seconds to keep me on task.
4. I can "Clear" a list at any time to stop my wrist from buzzing and to return to a "select a routine / priority list" mode, it also stops when I complete a list.
This keeps me on task, reminds me that I've decided to work towards a singular goal, and keeps my current "cursor" at a glance. A part of me wishes I didn't have to live this way, but it's a coping mechanism that keeps me more effective than I've ever been and I will likely use it and improve upon it for the rest of my days.
So, ama if you're curious about any other details. I am interested to know if a system like this would work for others. Right now it's literally an APK I load onto my watch that hits an API running on kubernetes. Simple, but effective.
- let_it_be 9y agoI'd really be interested in trying this. Sticking to a routine has always been one of the hardest parts of all this.