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This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 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. ...

This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 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. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 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. ...

This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 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. ...

I have owned approximately 47 planners, 12 wall calendars, and at least 6 different calendar apps. I have color-coded my life into oblivion. I’ve tried bullet journaling, time blocking, the Pomodoro technique layered on top of time blocking layered on top of a Google Calendar that looked like a bag of Skittles exploded on my screen. And I still missed my dentist appointment last Tuesday. If you have ADHD and you’ve ever stared at a beautifully organized calendar you spent three hours setting up, only to completely ignore it for the next two weeks… welcome. You’re in the right place. This is the guide I wish someone had handed me before I wasted another $34 on a planner I used for exactly four days. ...

This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 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. My workspace used to be a war zone. Three half-empty coffee cups. A pile of “important papers” that had been untouched for six months. Sticky notes everywhere. None of them actionable. A charging cable for a phone I sold in 2022. And somehow, zero pens despite owning approximately 400 pens. ...

This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 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. ...

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. ...

This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most planners are designed for people who already have their life together. The ones who wake up at 5 AM, journal for 20 minutes, and actually use their color-coded system past January 14th. ...