Adhd Productivity

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 was on a Zoom call with a stranger in Portugal, and we hadn’t spoken in 45 minutes. I’d just finished my entire Q3 budget. The one I’d been avoiding for three weeks. That was my introduction to body doubling for ADHD, and I’ve been mildly obsessed with it ever since. What Is Body Doubling (and Why Does It Work for ADHD)? Body doubling is exactly what it sounds like. You work alongside another person. That’s it. They don’t help you. They don’t check your work. They’re just… there. ...