This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I have a graveyard of half-used journals. Moleskines with three pages filled. A Leuchtturm with one spectacular brain dump dated March 4th and then nothing until a grocery list in July. A bullet journal where I spent four hours designing a habit tracker I never once tracked a habit in. Sound familiar? Yeah. Welcome to ADHD journaling. ...
Affiliate disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend stuff we’d actually use. You know that thing where you’re in a meeting and you’ve already destroyed three pen caps, peeled the label off your water bottle, and are now methodically shredding a Post-it note into confetti? Yeah. You need a fidget toy. ...
This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Let me paint you a picture. It’s 2 PM. You’ve been sitting at your desk for three hours. You’ve read the same Slack message four times. Your leg is bouncing so hard it’s registering on seismographs in neighboring countries. Your brain has checked out and is currently browsing a mental catalog of every embarrassing thing you said in 2019. ...
Affiliate disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend stuff we’d actually use. “I’ll just do this for five minutes” I said, three hours ago, now emerging from a Wikipedia rabbit hole about the history of elevators. If this sounds familiar, congratulations. You have time blindness, the ADHD feature nobody asked for. ...
Affiliate disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend stuff we’d actually use. It’s 2 AM. You’ve been lying in bed for three hours. Your body is exhausted but your brain is hosting an involuntary TED talk about that embarrassing thing you said in 2014. You’ve tried counting sheep. The sheep have unionized and gone on strike. ...
This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. My six-year-old was singing “Let It Go” for the 400th time while I was trying to close a deal on a call. That’s when I decided to get serious about noise cancelling headphones. If you have ADHD, you already know: one random sound can derail an entire work session. The neighbor’s dog. A coworker’s keyboard. Your own kid asking for a snack every nine minutes. Finding the best noise cancelling headphones for ADHD isn’t about audiophile specs. It’s about protecting your focus like it’s a rare and endangered species. Because it is. ...
I’ve abandoned more to-do list apps than most people have ever downloaded. Forty-three, at last count. That’s not a flex. That’s ADHD. Here’s what I’ve learned after years of trying every shiny new productivity app, only to forget it exists three days later: most to-do list apps are built for neurotypical brains. They assume you can look at a list of 47 tasks and just… pick one. They assume you know how long things take. They assume you won’t spend 90 minutes organizing your task system instead of doing a single task on it. ...
I’ve bought eleven digital planners in the last three years. Most of them lasted about a week before joining the digital doom pile on my iPad’s home screen. That graveyard of abandoned apps? Peak ADHD. But a few actually stuck. And the difference between a planner that works for my ADHD brain and one that doesn’t comes down to very specific things. Low friction to open. Visual enough to hold my attention. Forgiving enough that skipping a day doesn’t make the whole system collapse. ...
I stared at “clean the house” on my to-do list for three hours last Tuesday. Then I found Goblin Tools and it broke that task into 12 steps before I could talk myself out of starting. That’s basically the whole pitch. A collection of tiny, free, AI-powered tools built specifically for neurodivergent brains. No account required. No subscription wall. Just open the site and use it. But does it actually help with ADHD? I spent two weeks testing every single tool. Here’s what happened. ...
I’ve tried both. Multiple times. With the enthusiasm of someone who just discovered a new system that’s definitely going to fix everything. Spoiler: neither one fixed everything. But one of them stuck, and the other kept becoming a beautiful graveyard of abandoned dashboards. Here’s the todoist vs notion adhd showdown you actually need. The Quick Verdict If you need to get things done today, pick Todoist. If you need to build a second brain and have the hyperfocus hours to set it up, pick Notion. ...