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That was pretty disappointing. I was hoping for more substance. Seems rather than giving strategies on how to read books with ADHD the article devolved into tel

That was pretty disappointing. I was hoping for more substance. Seems rather than giving strategies on how to read books with ADHD the article devolved into telling people with ADHD to embrace that they never finish any books.

ajdlinux 6y ago
I'm also not sure what "one thing I am going to take action on" means when the current book I'm reading is a history of Australian-East Timorese foreign relations. In general it sounds like a tactic for reading self-help or spirituality books and not much else?
- JimBlackwood 6y ago
  I also don’t see how that thought will help. I don’t have the attention to focus on a book, I’ll surely forget my thought about what I’m going to take action on.
- EdwardDiego 6y ago
  You could perhaps lobby Australia to cut the Timorese some goddamn slack on the oil?
  - ajdlinux 6y ago
    Indeed, or at least lobby my government to cut the oil spying whistleblowers, including the author of the said book, a bit of slack... alas these things might be a bit out of place alongside the "get more exercise" and "change my morning routine" items on the One Thing List.
gnicholas 6y ago
Agreed. It wasn't so much 'how to read books' as 'how to get something out of books (without actually reading most of them)'. For people who want to actually get through books, I'd recommend this tool [1], which I created several years back. It has become fairly popular in the ADHD world and is recommended at top universities (Stanford/Yale/Dartmouth) to students with ADHD and dyslexia. It works with Kindle books as well as many websites. The Chrome extension comes with a 2-week free pass and I'm happy to send a month-long pass to any HNers out there who can benefit from it. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifjafammaookpiajfbedmacfldaiamgg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...
- bluedays 6y ago
  That's pretty cool, though I think I would be capable of creating a userscript that can apply gradient text.
  - gnicholas 6y ago
    Yeah, the most seamless way is when it's integrated into a browser itself. The new Insight Browser (YC W19) offers this functionality in a pretty slick way (and it's totally free). [1] We also have a JS widget that can be embedded into a website, like The Program has done for their transcripts. [2] 1: https://www.insightbrowser.com https://www.insightbrowser.com 2: https://programaudioseries.com/0-the-program-comes-for-us-all/ https://programaudioseries.com/0-the-program-comes-for-us-al...
- tpaulin 6y ago
  This looks like a neat idea! A couple of questions if you don't mind: 1. Does the pass apply to the Firefox version too? 2. When you say "It works with Kindle books..." what do you mean? On desktop only? (My) Kindle doesn't have colour.
  - gnicholas 6y ago
    Yes for Firefox and yes via the kindle cloud reader (on desktop or our iPad app).

ajdlinux 6y ago

I'm also not sure what "one thing I am going to take action on" means when the current book I'm reading is a history of Australian-East Timorese foreign relations. In general it sounds like a tactic for reading self-help or spirituality books and not much else?

JimBlackwood 6y ago
I also don’t see how that thought will help. I don’t have the attention to focus on a book, I’ll surely forget my thought about what I’m going to take action on.
EdwardDiego 6y ago
You could perhaps lobby Australia to cut the Timorese some goddamn slack on the oil?
- ajdlinux 6y ago
  Indeed, or at least lobby my government to cut the oil spying whistleblowers, including the author of the said book, a bit of slack... alas these things might be a bit out of place alongside the "get more exercise" and "change my morning routine" items on the One Thing List.

gnicholas 6y ago

Agreed. It wasn't so much 'how to read books' as 'how to get something out of books (without actually reading most of them)'. For people who want to actually get through books, I'd recommend this tool [1], which I created several years back. It has become fairly popular in the ADHD world and is recommended at top universities (Stanford/Yale/Dartmouth) to students with ADHD and dyslexia. It works with Kindle books as well as many websites. The Chrome extension comes with a 2-week free pass and I'm happy to send a month-long pass to any HNers out there who can benefit from it. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifjafammaookpiajfbedmacfldaiamgg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...

bluedays 6y ago
That's pretty cool, though I think I would be capable of creating a userscript that can apply gradient text.
- gnicholas 6y ago
  Yeah, the most seamless way is when it's integrated into a browser itself. The new Insight Browser (YC W19) offers this functionality in a pretty slick way (and it's totally free). [1] We also have a JS widget that can be embedded into a website, like The Program has done for their transcripts. [2] 1: https://www.insightbrowser.com https://www.insightbrowser.com 2: https://programaudioseries.com/0-the-program-comes-for-us-all/ https://programaudioseries.com/0-the-program-comes-for-us-al...
tpaulin 6y ago
This looks like a neat idea! A couple of questions if you don't mind: 1. Does the pass apply to the Firefox version too? 2. When you say "It works with Kindle books..." what do you mean? On desktop only? (My) Kindle doesn't have colour.
- gnicholas 6y ago
  Yes for Firefox and yes via the kindle cloud reader (on desktop or our iPad app).