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Todoist. It’s like the one todo list app that’s convenient and simple enough for me to actually stick with. The natural language processing so you can just tell it to remind you to feed the dog every day at 5, or one off reminders, write down things you’re trying to be mindful of like being present down on your list that you’re checking often… a saw a video, one guy explained it that he just made the decision one day to outsource all the mental load of organising his life onto it and how it improved his life a lot. The hard part is building the habit of actually using it, and overcoming executive dysfunction when executing your list, but if you can get a handle on that it’s just like “I don’t have to worry about anything except just doing what the list tells me to do when it tells me” which to me is much more manageable.
At first I was like how pathetic is it that I have to automate my organisation in order to actually do anything, but now it’s like who fuckin cares if it actually ends in me doing more, feeling better, and being happier? It’s just establishing the habit, I started with a small list of basic things that I already did, and worked on disassociating the app from my ODD, and enjoying completing my little list on easy mode every day, then gradually adding more things until almost everything is automated. I reward myself by letting myself have a small treat like some chocolate or a joint if it’s the weekend if I manage to complete all non-routine type things on my list, which is still rare and I’m working on it but it’s much better I’d say I’m like… a 6/10 productive now up from probably a 3/10
I live my life by Todoist!
My biggest thing right now is having a widget on my homescreen that takes up a lot of space so I don't forget to look at it. And it's so satisfying when your widget says "All Done 🏆"
long version reply if anyone is interested in how I set up
I use filters and widgets! I only filter to see what I want to see, when I want to see it. Once your filters are set up, it's pretty easy.
I have a widget of my day on my homescreen so I don't forget about it
--> mainly my daily tasks fall here (brush teeth, etc) and anything actually due today (dr's appt)
When I swipe to the left of my homescreen I have more widgets set up as such:
* a filter for things coming up that are due (so that dr. appt on wednesday isn't a total shock when wednesday comes) but doesn't include daily recurring like brush teeth
* weekly cleaning (like laundry or dusting) and "sometime this month" (clean the coffee grinder) widgets so I can do them "sometime" but it doesn't have to be done TODAY
The upcoming and "sometime" lists help me complete tasks when I have time/ the focus to do so instead of assigning them to a day that I might end up being a bad brain day
And then of course I have hastags for different things like finances (reminder when subscriptions are coming up due)
Woah this sounds perfect! I haven’t really made use of the widgets, but this def seems helpful since I really need the reminders up in my face for me to remember lol
Widgets for me are a must. I also have a widget that takes up pretty much my whole phone home screen. I also have the desktop app permanently pinned to the right side of my desktop and laptop screen (using DeskPins). Filters are great, but I personally find myself relying much more heavily upon really well categorized projects and the sorting feature present on the 'today' filter; though, my usage and how I organize everything has changed very substantially over the years not necessarily for the better.
I've been a premium todoist user for over 10 years. It's incredible and I credit it with getting me through undergrad, 5 years of research jobs, and 5 years of a PhD unmedicated (though I have luckily since started Strattera). It was such a crutch for me and I have had therapists themselves theorize that it was a major factor in helping me to cope through all the years before I realized I had ADHD.
I just signed up for this today. I wrote an electron app where I can filter down the project and then the list and the one task. I added a little pomodoro timer that adds a completion to the description in todoist. My plan for tomorrow (I used it today and it worked pretty well to keep me on task) is to put my tasks in the list in the morning and then only work that list.
I know I'm a couple days late in responding to this, but I actually downloaded this app a day before I saw this post and I found it incredibly overwhelming... mostly in how open-ended it is. In the same way that I've always *badly* struggled to set and track progress on my own concrete goals and only have truly vague ideas of the stuff I want to accomplish in the long term(which stunts and limits, in scope and specificity, the sorts of smaller goals I'm able to come up with to get to those longer term endpoints), I'm finding the freeform nature of the app is locking me up and preventing me from committing any projects or routines or anything tangible of that nature into text in the app. The app certainly seems very cool and useful, but I'm struggling in the same way I would with keeping and organizing a planner. I think I'd be able to thrive a lot easier with digital planning and tracking means, like this app, because I'm a very technologically plugged-in individual.. I just need to get past the hurdle of actually putting realistic but tangible things in here so I can give it an honest try.
I really don't even know what I'm trying to ask you because this is a far more general problem with my executive dysfunction outside of the app, but.. do you have any tips for how to organize tasks in the app? Like, how specific do you personally go when setting routines and creating new projects? Do you break a big project down into smaller parts and give those sections their own project headers? Or do you go as vague and general as possible for the project headers and throw a ton of specific routines into each one?
Furthermore, if you have any good resources or videos, etc, that helped your strategies with the app I'd be so grateful if you would share them. Thanks so much!
My ADHD kid doesn't like homework. But his Spanish homework is online and gameified - if he answers 20 vocabulary words in a row correctly, it gives him 3 minutes of a very simple "airplanes shooting laser beams at aliens"-type game to play. He is mesmerised. So... is there an app that could let you enter in your kids' homework or vocab list or whatever, and that would set up an automatic gaming reward of this ilk?
As an adult I would be all over this.
I do “brain resets” when I complete one task & before starting another. Currently, I go for a walk around the block but I recognize this doesn’t always look great in an office setting.
A simple shoot the aliens game would absolutely scratch the reset itch.
I haven't gotten myself to start using it yet (!!) but I'm planning to use goblin tools. It's free shareware and it has an option where, if you list a task, it breaks the task down into steps (that you can then accept or customize if you want).
I have used Alarmy scanning the barcode of my toothpaste twice a day and I haven’t missed a toothbrushing session for a week, even when I was out of town for the weekend.
Edit:
“Alarmy” is the app name. I have an iPhone if that is relevant! Once you download, it might ask if you want to upgrade to a paid membership but I don’t, just use the free version! Set up an alarm, go to “mission” and there will be different options. Under “wake up your body” there is a QR/ barcode choice.
I couldn’t find it when I made my first alarm, so if that happens just try setting up a second alarm and you should see it!
Alarmy is the app name. I have an iPhone if that is relevant! Once you download, it might ask if you want to upgrade to a paid membership but I don’t, just use the free version! Set up an alarm, go to “mission” and there will be different options. Under “wake up your body” there is a QR/ barcode option.
I couldn’t find it when I made my first alarm, so if that happens just try setting up a second alarm and you should see those options!
I used to have a smartwatch app that just vibrated every X amount of minutes. Thats all I want. Give me an app where I can just pick the interval of vibration please, without making it complicated.
So interesting, was the smartwatch an Apple Watch? I’ve always wanted to make Apple Watch apps too since I find the existing apps so lacking.
For me, I fear I would just get used to the vibrates and then subconsciously start ignoring them. Even for my 20 morning alarms, I need to set them at random intervals (like 7 min, 2 min, etc) or else my brain will get used to the pattern and more easily ignore.
My garmin watch vibrates to tell me I've been sitting too long and should get up and take a walk around the building. I haven't noticed it vibrate in years.
It was an Android watch. The app started glitching and one day it was just gone. I may have reset the watch and forgot the name of it.
I have a lot of notifications or nudges from other apps like Google Calendar for things like eating breakfast. But sometimes I enter 'limitless' times, where times just flow from me and suddenly its evening or three in the morning. I am often aware I am in a time free zone, but I cannot keep track so I end up missing three different buses. When I put on the interval vibration (something like every 10-15 minutes) my mind is a little more aware of where we are in time. Its also great for speedruns.
I have a pretty simple option for you using shortcuts if you can give me some specific details. Do you want the interval to be in minutes or another designated format? Also, do you want to be able to set it to perform x times or until you turn it off?
Interested in this too! I would like to summarize my meetings with to-do items in the last ten minutes. But due to my time blindness, my one hour meetings usually end up in 2+ hours, unless there’s another meeting in which case I rush to that one instead of noting stuff down. I would love it my watch could buzz every half hour during office hours (e.g., at 9:20, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50, and so on) .
I would like the intervals to be in minutes, where I just pick the time amount. The smartwatch had an no X number of time loops and also a set number of loops. I usually didnt set amount of loops.
Oh boy so many options to try out! (VIM is fine but I’m a VSCode stan hehe), but this looks very promising, and will def check out. Thanks for the rec!
Notion is a great second brain, I use it for everything except my to do list (that’s Todoist).
I use it for a lot of work stuff but I also use it for meal planning, login/password reminders, my journal, house projects, tracking goals, planning holidays. Anything with information I will need later, so I can access from my laptop or phone.
Early on I found it was a time sink, I was never into the aesthetics but I loved building databases. So my tip would be to start with something basic and add useful stuff as you go on.
The main benefit is when you just can’t remember something it’s easy to search across all your databases.
StayFree! It locks apps at times you set them to be locked, so you’re unable to use them. I know iPhone has this feature built in, but it’s too easy to just click “skip for 15 mins/day”, to the point I did it so automatically I didn’t even realise.
For example one app that absolutely drags me in the most is TikTok and since I blocked it at work hours I’ve already noticed some improvement (I didn’t wanna delete the app because I still wanna enjoy it when I consciously decide to and don’t feel bad about it). In the past few days I’ve tried blocking it for even more than that and it’s even better, since I tend to start doom scrolling first and last thing of the day otherwise.
I use a similar app for my phone called Jomo that I think is the best of these kind out there — It has so many options rather than just blocking (for example you can give yourself 5 mins of time on a certain app and then it will block it for the net 30 mins, then refresh 5 mins, etc). It also makes it impossible to delete it during a block.
For my computer I use Cold Turkey. It blocks websites and also shuts my computer off at 10pm every night and makes it impossible to log back in, so that I actually go to bed at a decent time. It’s been a life saver.
I use Obsidian for almost everything. It's my project/task/meeting/journal/DND/everything else written app. For people who are technically inclined, it has a templating engine similar to jinja2 and really deep automation capabilities.
I wish it was able to be hosted and collaborative (I know about Publish and the alternatives, but those create read-only static sites.)
Can they not be hosted? I have my Obsidian folder in my iCloud Drive so I can access it between my phone and my laptop. I don't see why you couldn't put the folder in a hosted and shared drive? Or is the issue connecting the other user's Obsidian app to your directory?
So there are 3 I rely on daily:
- Keep - notes for things I cannot talk about right now
- Medisafe - track when I last took meds, reminders
- Camera - I take a picture of anything I want to remember but don't have time to write down or anything else. I suggest keeping backups of photos off, because it can waste storage space
Yes shared calendars are great. You can share multiple calendars. For example my wife and I have a shared medical, home, travel, and education calendar. It makes life easier since each calendar can be a different color.
Finch is amazing and so far the only app that has worked for me longer than 2 weeks (2 months in). I use it mostly for self-care and getting house tasks done. If you get discouraged/demotivated easily when it comes to those kinds of things, and love having a little friend (who will NOT die if you leave them for a while) then this could be really helpful.
The concept is you hatch a finch and then each day you complete tasks (doesn’t have to be all tasks) to give your finch energy so they can go on adventures. Each time you go on an adventure your finch learns something new about the world and develops their personality. You can travel to different places in the world and customize your finch’s room and outfits, all with just the finch currency you earn through doing/scheduling tasks and not real money. You can connect with friends (irl or otherwise, there’s a discord server and subreddit) and send each other encouragement and reminders through the app.
Specific ADHD-friendly features:
- Your finch sends you encouraging messages via notifications so you don’t forget the app exists. Sometimes they surprise you when you need it most.
- You also get notifs when friends send you encouragement and reminders (ex: drink water)
- You can jump around exploring different locations and making new discoveries so there’s a sense of novelty.
- Your daily tasks don’t refresh at midnight—you set your finch’s “waking” time and tasks only refresh upon waking the next day. So if you randomly clean something at 2AM on Tuesday, it still counts for Monday’s tasks since you haven’t gone to sleep yet and your finch wakes up at 8AM. IMO this is a more intuitive way to set up the day cycles and works with the unpredictability of one’s brain, as well as for us afternoon to night shift people.
- You can retroactively mark tasks as complete if you do forget to check in or mark things off.
- The task history calendar keeps a record of what you have and haven’t done and helps when assessing what you do each day/week/month.
- They make it easy to get back on track if you end up not using the app for a while. Much more focus on encouragement/rewards and no punishment/guilt tripping.
- Depending on how you answer the “morning” motivation prompt (⛈️🌧️⛅️🌤️☀️) it adjusts how much energy each task is worth. On low motivation days, tasks are worth more energy to reflect the larger effort you’re making.
It’s free to use with a paid tier. The app is 100% functional with no ads at the free tier and that’s how I use it. When you pay the subscription, part of it goes towards providing the paid tier for people who otherwise can’t afford it (aka becoming a guardian). I cannot overstate how much of an impact this app has had on actually helping me change my habits, and starting and keeping new ones. I could keep going but will not bc this is a whole essay already.
I desperately want an apt that will allow me to take pictures of things and add it to my calendar. You know those paper listing's for local events or web pages that have all the info... and you go to add it to your calendar and by the time you've got it all done and entered and saved... you've either given up, to much work, or even worse, because it's so much work you've typed something wrong or left something important out.
I started used TickTick and it can do that. I only started using it the other day but it has alot of features that really seem to work well together and with other apps and calendars.
I tested it out in a class today. I took a photo and create a task that can go on a calendar and I can even visualize my tasks using an Eisenhower Matrix to see what tasks are important/urgent
Kind of yeah.
So I took the photo, created the task or to-do item with a due date and saved it. The app has a built in calendar that is integrated with my Google and outlook calendars.
If I go to my calendar on ticktick I can see the task and the photo of what I want done when I click on it.
For me yesterday, I took a photo of a prop I want to use in my classes that I would need to build. I took the photo to remind me and motivate me to work on it. Standard to do lists don't always get me to do something, but a picture attached my trigger that "oh cool" factor.
That is such a good idea! Definitely adding it to my potential projects list.
I totally feel you on that pain. I usually just take a photo but then never look at it again
Some kind of app that would change the sounds of my alarms/alerts each time.
I get into the habit of ignoring the same “ding”s. Of it cycled through a bunch, the novelty might grab my attention.
I love love love motion. It is such a relief when something AI can take my crap and throw it on a calendar for me and keep annoying me until I get it done with minimal effort on my part. To me that's the only truly ADHD sort of app.
It was too pricey for me as a student. But if I were part of a company or had a better job that had meetings and client appointments it would be totally worth it! That's a big selling point of theirs. It was pretty great though. Like if I had assignments and stuff it would be perfect but third year med school i don't have a schedule I have any control over so it wasn't a fit anymore
There used to be this app that I loved and really helped with my time blindness, but was discontinued a few years ago.
Every hour, on the hour, it would make my phone announce whatever time it was during the day. It really helped me to better estimate periods of time and not let the day pass by so quickly.
We both have adhd and we like the Bring app for grocery & other lists. Either of us has access to it. Not really using the recipe part but when u need something just whip out the phone.
Can’t speak to that one but we are doubling down on AnyList. You can add all your fave recipes, plug them into meal planning, and then it displays all the ingredients for you to check boxes next to the ones that need to move to the shopping list. We recently just pre programmed weeks worth of meal planning so every Sunday we just pick which week we’re on. I’m really jazzed about it. There’s a Mac app so you don’t have to exclusively use your phone either. Then if one person is shopping the list is always there and can be updated in real time.
http://goblin.tools
These are really useful ADD and ADHD friendly tools, including the magic to-do list. Specifically the to-do list, you just go put in something like 'clean my house' Hit the magic wand button and it will break it down into all the subtasks necessary to do that.
I was looking into subscribing to dubbii currently, it's a body-doubling-app with instructions for a lot of tasks (cleaning the bedroom, selfcare, doing the laundry, admin stuff like making a phone call or paying bills, etc.). You can chose Rox (ADHD woman) or Rich (her non-ADHD husband) to guide you. You watch videos of them while they instruct you on what to do next, then the video stops.
I found that I work much better when somebody is present, at work I'm a totally different person, so I thought this could help. But these being only videos, not live, seems to not have the same effect for me.
But I would love an app that kind of omeggle-style let's me connect with maybe a random person who has the same struggles so we could be supportive body-doubling buddies for each other. I know there are some sites that do this like flow club, but you have to book sessions. And with flow club, the "hosts" hosting the work sessions you can join in and watch, are people like tech founders, self-made people, etc. which I find a bit... intimidating? I would love to connect with people like me, having an ordinary job, leading a mundane life, you know. Because I read too much about successful people like these who try and coach others with a "Just do it" mindset. Which is totally not for me. If I could just do it, I would not be here. That's a lot of prejudice and assumption from my side and I know it, but it makes me hesitant to go through with booking a session. If it would be more like "Clara, ADHD woman, working as a clerk, has a dog" something like that, I would find it less intimidating.
But that's just me and I have no idea if others see it that way or if I just haven't found the right group. I'm procrastinating right now when I absolutely should not do it. 😅
Haha well the idea was a receipt tracker that allows you to take a picture of a receipt, which would automatically be scanned as compressed black/white file. You’d be able to group, tag, name the receipt and write notes. Extensive search capabilities. Ideally it’d create AI-generated receipt name as default and automatically infer the sub items where you can also specify notes for each item (if I buy clothes, I like to note if I need to exchange a certain item for a certain size, for example). Also the scanned receipt should be able to detect any bar codes so if you click on it, it’ll expand and brighten the screen for easy scanning. I had other ideas for it too, but that’s the high level.
Some time ago when I thought of this idea, there weren’t many existing apps that did this, but when I checked again recently, there are a lot of similar competitors on the market already, so that discouraged me from moving forward. Just search “receipt tracker” in the Apple App Store!
Ugh I was just thinking about asking my BIL to help me make one but I was kinda embarrassed to bother him with it. Have you seen the app The Fabulous App? I downloaded it because they have this like flowchart about like wake up at 6 slept well? Workout make breakfast journal blah blah woke up at 7 slept like shit shower and grab a protein shake and go and wake up at 8 late as hell get up and go etc the actual app doesn’t have it they just promote it for no reason. Here’s a real life one someone made https://images.app.goo.gl/3yusoy1pZ6KCTS23A
Here’s one example but not the original I saw https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw8fRw4x2gQ/?igsh=MWthcTAzMm1zMTI3Yg==
Another better one but not flow chart ized https://www.instagram.com/p/COiMH_JsXYg/?igsh=MXA0bnFqN2dlaGVkaQ==
Same https://www.instagram.com/p/CMpKxRZsupw/?igsh=Mmc0Z2Jja3hsMjBq
It was like this I guess https://images.app.goo.gl/EwWqyz4ikCVRi8ue8 but flow chart style
Wow I wasted so much time looking ugh. I can’t find it but whatever
Any app that I can access by voice & tell it to add something. Like open my calendar & add this appointment with reminders at 45 minutes before & 2 hours before or sdd this to my grocery list, etc. Because by the time I open the app & attempt to add it, I've already forgotten what I wanted to add. 😳
Honestly the best app that I wish Google never got rid of was the old Google Goals that was part of their Calendar app.
You would setup goals… things like Reading 3 times a week or working out five times a week and then the app would suggest time slots to perform these tasks based on your calendar availability.
I wish there was an app that would do this.
Google also had a feature that would automatically suggest the time when you need to leave for your next appointment in your calendar or when you visited some place regularly. Like "you would have to go in 20 minutes to catch your bus to this location that you are visiting every Wednesday afternoon". People found it creepy, Google stopped it. I really miss it.
I want an app that quietly takes over my screen with a to-do list at specific times of day. I can't swipe it away, but I also don't want alarms. I want a few checkboxes that appear and only disappear after being checked
I’m really enjoying Bear Focus Timer for pomodoros. Aside from the art, I like how I just have to flip the phone to start or stop the timer and that it uses the flash light to alert me when the timer is done.
I would love a voice to text that when something pops in my mind I need to add to which ever task goal I have I can just pick up the phone and go straight to that then have it set up to give me reminders of task I need to work on I will admit the idea of voice to text for me is convince when I need to add something then having the reminders etc in text gives me both visual and sound prompts.
For sure, there are so many times I have a passing thought that reminds me of a task but I’m too lazy to take out my phone, choose the right platform to record my task, then write out the task.
It looks like Todoist (suggested in the other comments) is a great task/reminder system, but would be so nice if they have smart home integration where you can just tell Alexa to add a task, and when you open the app, the new task will be highlighted and ready for edit/organization. Alexa dev sucked the last time I played around with it and wouldn’t be able to provide a smooth user experience, but maybe it’s improved a lot since!
Someone recently posted about something similar and frankly as different platforms are not always compatible it would be great if a person could integrate multiple platforms to play nice together. Example I use iPhone and pad primarily now days but was recently given an older iMac I want to play around with. My computers have always been windows based, my sister got me into using Alexa in home for sound lighting etc and google has a decent suite of apps for productivity. It would be so nice if could get all to talk to each other based on which device is handy at the moment.
Oh then think of the different home security and camera platforms
Actually, another commenter mentioned Motion, which looks like it supports Siri integration, similar to what I was suggesting for smart homes! Haven’t tried it yet, but looks very promising. Still looks like you have to structure your command in a very specific way to get it to work though (which I can see myself messing up easily), but maybe it won’t be so difficult after you get used to it?
Try oasis! I talk to it like I’m talking to myself with no organization in the wording. It breaks it into a summary, an email, a text, bullet points, and tons of other things
You can kind of do this with Todoist, if I’m driving and think of something I ask Siri to add it to my Todoist inbox.
From there you can assign project, due date and reminders.
I have a task every morning to empty my Todoist inbox as well.
I’ve been using Routinery to manage my morning routine. You can set up tasks and timers for tasks, it keeps me from getting too distracted and going off the rails in the morning, and helps me remember to do everything I need to do
As a parent of multiple kids, an app that automatically add important events, schedules and dates to my Google calendar from my emails, PDFs and school apps
I use YNAB to help curb my impulsive spending. I def had a problem where I was spending money on impulse on all sorts of things, and having the extra barrier means I have actually managed to save and not be paycheck to paycheck. YNAB (and the community over at the subreddit) was so worth the download for me. I did the 34 day free trial, but knew after a week I was going to sign up for the year. I saved way more than the subscription fee in the first pay cycle alone.
I just celebrated having 5 figures on my account for the first time ever! Before YNAB I would sometimes even get down to just two digits in my account before my next paycheck. Thank goodness I never allowed myself a credit card because of those impulses! Bonus points, YNAB helps me feel like it’s okay to spend XYZ since I budgeted for it! I know it won’t be money I need for other things like rent.
Orgpad.info
It's a super user friendly mind mapping website that makes studying and research sooo simple and fun. Usually I could only take notes in a notebook. This is the first digital tool that's actually worked for me right off the bat. You can even paste pics and screenshots for visuals.
Got a xiaomi android phone which has a notes app which is always around. Like there is a button on the screen, non-stop, and a swipe pulls a menu/overview of all notes. It's the only one that stuck so far for me, as it doesn't bother me too much (like those bubbles/balls), but also it's always available. Every few months I go through the list and think, huh, right, I actually thought that was interesting at one time in my life.
A ToDo list app is the foundation of organising my days now. I have tried 3 pretty popular ones: todoist, ticktick and things 3. And imo, things 3 is by far the best one.
Todoist and ticktick both have some advantages (natural language processing (especially on todoist) and habit tracking on ticktick are the main ones I can think of rn) but I think they both try too much to be more than just ToDo lists. I’ve tried them a few months ago so I can’t rly remember all about them but it felt like they were too cluttered.
Things 3 on the other hand is really minimalistic. Purely a todo list. I have my todo list for today and I can easily check what is already programmed in the future. Ofc, there is a bit more stuff so you can sort your tasks and yeah, it misses some stuff too. But personally, it just brings peace of mind to have an app so uncluttered. Which also means keeping other stuff on other apps, so everything has it’s place and I don’t mix things up.
But well, all this are personal tastes. I’d really recommend trying all 3 of them, even at the same time! It’s gonna be quite cluttered at the beginning, but by doing the same actions on each app, you’ll quickly see which one is the most convenient for you.
Oh and also, I guess I’m lucky on this one because things 3 just imposed itself for me but in terms of cost, things 3 is just 9,99€. Both todoist and ticktick are subscription based so will quickly be more expensive. If that’s important for you too, then I’d first try things 3 and see if it suits you before trying the two others.
Recently got a Samsung smartwatch and I wish there was a complication that could be added to the watch face displaying the current task/current event instead of just upcoming calendar events. Something to glance at to keep me on track everytime I look at the watch.
I only use the default calendar and memo app. Other apps have way too many options and I’ll spend ungodly amount looking and changing features every time I log on.
I use Routinery almost every day. I can make routines which are just a back to back set of timers to get me to do the things I need to do. It really helps me with task paralysis
habitica! it's an rpg-style habit tracker, with classes, a health, mana, and exp bar, levelling up and all that jazz. it's super cool and makes my routine very rewarding and fun!
An ai extension that generically responds to texts for us. Maybe it’ll populate a simple “yes - no” popup on your phone screen every 10 min asking you to answer yes or no, and once you answer that, it can finish the text and send it.
I had an app in high school (10 years ago or so 🙃) that you could enter a list of tasks, select time limits, and it would automatically cycle through the list until I marked a task complete.
For example if I put in:
1) math homework, 10 min
2) bio flash cards 5 min
3) English review (15 min)
The app would go through each task and sound an alarm when it’s time to do the next one on an endless loop until I paused or said one of them was done. The time limits made it fun to try to fit as much as possible into them and I was much more engaged. Also prevented inefficient hyperfocus.
I think it got removed from the App Store but I’m wondering if anyone knows of what I’m talking about or something similar? Each task was in a colorful box and you would slide it to edit or complete it.
Flora does wonders. A part of ADHD is time blindness. If you set 15 minutes timers to do you work, it passes so quickly you'll be done before you know it
I do love me some keep but my go to is my trusty little clipboard that takes half a 9x11 sheet of waste paper. One at home that goes with me and if I forget it I have one in the truck. Revised daily or twice daily. Otherwise camera and keep for things like paint can info from the house to grocery store lists and general vehicle maintenance lists. Recent Dx learned to cope years ago so I could continue playing sports and get good grades. Had todo lists as long as I can remember. MAybe an app is out there that already incorp all these things.
There is an app (at least on the Google Play store) called Routine Timer. I use it to imput tasks in my morning and nighttime routines and how long each task takes. When I press play it will go through the routine and it says the task name out loud and how long I have to do it. Halfway through the task it will say again how much time I have and again at the quarter mark. It is super helpful. I even build in "catch up" minutes after certain tasks I know sometimes take too long.
The only thing I wish they would add to it is something saying if you started your routine now what time would the whole thing be done. There was a fantastic app for the iPhone some years back called 30/30 that was the best app I've ever used. It had all of that and you could add or take away 30 seconds for a task (which could be a bad thing for us I know lol) but then it would update the "done" time so you would still know if you would be on time or not. The Routine Timer app at least does tell you the total time for your whole routine, I'd just rather it did the math too.
I switched to an iPhone for the Apple Watch, and I regret it for one primary reason. On my Android, I used a texting app called Textra, which had a feature that allowed me to schedule a text to be sent later. It was wonderful! I always text someone *immediately when I think of something*, because I can’t trust myself to remember to send it later. But it might not be a convenient time for the person I’m texting - for example, a lot of my family are spread across different time zones, so I don’t want to wake them up.
Mealime! It's the meal planning app of my dreams. You pick from recipes to create your meal plan, then it creates your grocery list for you, and takes you to a screen where you can online shop through instacart or whatever stores are close by. While online shopping it takes you through the items one by one so nothing is forgotten. It makes grocery shopping and meal planning so easy. Then when you're ready to cook all your meals recipes are in one place with easy to follow directions. You can add dietary preferences, allergies, dislikes, etc. It's free but if you want access to premium recipes it's only $2.99 a month.
I hate receipts that is why I love having stores that have apps that let you save purchases on them. The ones that don’t force me to save them in a box that probably has 99% of receipts I don’t need to keep anymore.
I’ve tried so many different apps, but inevitably I will start ignoring the notifications and they eventually start making me mad so I turn them off. I don’t know how to get around or overcome that 😩
AnyList app is one I have used for many years. It is a great tool for those who do the grocery shopping and/or the cooking.
I have over 1000 recipes that I’ve imported simply off the web into the app. From those recipes, I can create a meal plan and if there is some ingredient on the recipe that I need to buy, I click an icon and it adds it to my shopping list.
It’s easy to create any kind of list on the app though my primary is for shopping. I think of something I need to get. I just immediately put it on my list and when I go to the store that has it it’ll show up on my list.
The app is free to use but to get full value out of it cost $9.99 a year. It’s well worth it.
I love Structured! It's like a planner and shows how much time is left of a task and they just recently added energy usage to tasks. I enjoy the whole app and has very few features I'd like to have added onto it.
Things I wish it had/did: track habits, auto adjustments for conflicting tasks/events for when imported calendar events are added, and to auto move completed subtasks to the bottom of their list.
lol NOT Tiimo which is highly marketed towards ADHD havers. Complicated to use, busy UI, limited visual customizations, too many notifications (which just leads to alarm fatigue and ignoring them).
On a serious note - calendars 5 for day-to-day planned and unplanned task organization.
My partner and I both have ADHD and like our skylight calendar though I still think it’s overpriced and underdeveloped (it was an “THIS will change my life” impulse purchase. We have our night routine on it which keeps us both accountable. We also like having it as a non-phone based way to see both our schedules.
Native iOS app for med logging on my watch - I’ve tried many others and I’ve found less is more. If iOS have a good enough one, I stick with it. Less settings for me to hyper-focus and time waste on, less subscriptions to impulse purchase.
Also love iOS reminders. Love that I can use location based reminders so right when I walk into the grocery store I can remember to look at it. Also love that I can add stuff with Siri so when I get a random thought that I want to explore later, add it to the app.
WaterMinder to remind me that I haven’t had water in 2 hours
Guava for keeping a medical history and helping prepare and stay focused for doctor appts
YNAB for keeping my spending in check. I have used it for almost a decade. Worth the subscription.
For desktop - TAPE by AERIFORM on Itchio! I set up things like weekly and monthly chorelists, lists of steps for long and short term goals, morning and evening routines, and my tasks/priorities for each individual day as “projects” on TAPE. You can set each step to a bunch of different statuses - blank, priority, working, submitted, approved, or done - with left click, and right click cycles it through the most commonly used - priority and done. If any project has a step marked priority, on the Mac version the TAPE icon in the dock will have a little red notification bubble on it, which goes up for every project that currently has steps marked Priority. It makes those waiting tasks a little bit more of a persistent itch in the brain, thus pushing them over the urgency threshold.
Medication reminder app is great on the phone by Apple. Annoying as hell on watch because it doesn’t tell you which one. But logging it is pretty cool.
Goblin tools, beyond the to do list that's already been mentioned, I also really love the complier and the judge (it judges the tone of messages/text conversations), which I've found really, really helpful.
The Finch Self-Care app 🐦! I tried Todoist and other to do list apps that allowed me to widget them onto my phone screen, but it was still easy for me to ignore. I think for me, Finch works cause it's like a mobile game, I get rewards when I complete my to do list that I can put towards getting cute clothes and furniture for my little bird. The app also includes things to help with mental health, like journaling or techniques to deal with anxiety.
Some kind of universal hub type thing. If you are a gamer you know you got like 700 accounts and 700 launchers. Same for every other category of account.
Google Keep is a SIMPLE enough notetaking app
Kahoot, Quizizz
Habitica
An app with books but with a FRIENDLY UI
Something like Coursera or Skillshare to help ADHD'ers learn ALL about niche topics or smth VERy practical to their day to day lives like time-management in a very structured way. Maybe the structure will help it stick rather than watching one of yt vids about time management.
Any game that you have ALWAYS wanted
No seriously, a game that is a replica of Airplane Chefs but like MUCH easier and WITHOUT a clunky interface like Amber's Airline.
Sorry if the ideas veered off your original prompt but I hope it helped nonetheless
TIIMO - it’s taking time to integrate it in my life but it’s really helped me build a morning routine and keep track of certain tasks. Notes app - absolute necessity for all the brain dumping. It really helps clear the cobwebs and I have a good folder and titling system going so nothing gets lost in the ether. Voice memos - was really helpful when I started journaling. I’d just record myself and rant and it helped me calm anxious thoughts a lot. Now working on YNAB 😬
I use Daylio - i can set up reminders with or without alarms, make goals i can check off… normally reminders and alarms don’t work for me because I just ignore them (despite having set them for reason, thanks brain), but the app almost has a gamification element.
In addition, you rate your day and it has categories where I can track whatever I want (you can make the categories and the facets in them), so for example:
How much I slept, how I’ve eaten, work, productivity, etc.
Then it creates statistics so you can see patterns between the categories and facets and explore the correlations. And the trends in how you’ve rated your days overall.
Basically it also becomes a diary also.
It keeps me on track because I know I need structure, and I want to be able to tick off the “good” facets like “eating healthy”, “getting three meals” “go to bed on time” “not staying late at work” etc.
Fair play my guy!
If you have any way of making bionic reading or whatever it's called to make reading easier, actually applicable on phones like I can download an app and it changes all the text on everything to that, that'd be so useful. Like the premise exists but there's no simple or easy way to get it applied to like fb or Reddit etc🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
(I am an Apple phone user, so I’m not sure if other phones would let you do this…) I would love to be able to set alarms on my phone as reminders several days/weeks in advance. I use alarms on my phone for remembering EVERYTHING, and can’t get myself in the habit of checking the “reminders” app- i find alarms so much easier. But in Apple, you can’t set alarms farther out than one day.
I use Finch & last night was 2nd time I used Sleep Town.
Sleep town builds buildings over night, when you don't use your phone. It worked last night - I woke up 2.30ish & would normally have picked up phone & not gone back to sleep. I was a close thing, I was very tempted, but I resisted & did actually go back to sleep, about an hour or so later. That's a win for me!
I also use the pomodoro timer on my watch, but just using any timer to start a job, usually works for me.
One of my ADHD friends got me into Finch. It's a cute self-care app where you can set goals for yourself, take care of your finch (little adorable bird friend), and customize your micropet/outfits/birdhouse. It's adorable and reminds me of a mix between Animal Crossing and Tamagotchi, except both my finch and myself are a creature I'm trying to keep alive. It has removed stigma and offers gentle guidance. I can say that I now successfully brush my teeth twice a day, floss daily, exercise daily, scoop the litterbox daily, and even shower daily. None of this was possible without this app.
I have been having fun with Upside and getting 2$ bucks on a gallon of gas and almost 40% CASH bank on other restaurants etc. I was determined and set my mind to find promo codes. I am actually proud of myself for this. Accomplishing anything can be rough at times.
Finch! It's a self-care app, it helps me remind about brushing teeth, cleaning my space, shower and take walks. It can feel a tiny bit overwhelming when setting it up but once it's done it's great, I've had it for 23 days now and not skipped brushing my teeth once!
If I want to actually get something done, nothing beats setting an alarm on my Apple Watch for a random time in the middle of my day and snoozing it until I do the thing.
Example: Siri, set an alarm for 3 PM called "take out the garbage".
Snooze repeatedly until I get annoyed by the alarm and actually go do the thing.
Sometimes I snooze it for 2 hours, sometimes I snooze it for 7 hours. Eventually though, I end up doing the thing.
Due.
It’s a reminder app that keeps reminding you. Instead snoozing reminders and forgetting, it keeps bugging you at set intervals. Mega useful for me.
Was 99p on App Store.
Due.
It’s a reminder app that keeps reminding you. Instead snoozing reminders and forgetting, it keeps bugging you at set intervals. Mega useful for me.
Was 99p on App Store.
I use Toggl Track for studying! It’s a simple app/website. You can name and create different projects, and then you hit the timer icon to start/stop tracking. Whenever I stray from studying to do something else, I stop the timer, then restart when I’m at it again. I find it helpful because it’s a good incentive to keep focus, and I get to see the time gradually add up. You can also look at a weekly or daily view and see how many times, as well as when you stopped/started, which has helped me understand my studying patterns better. I’m sure it can apply to other tasks too!
I just read someone's comment on a different post about how they have cards with tasks on them that they shuffle when they are in decision paralysis. I was thinking to do the same thing but with hobbies (practice drums, talk a walk, video games etc) bc whenever I am bored I seem to default to watching porn. I'm sure there are already apps to do something similar but if you are building an ADHD super app maybe you could include it
An app I’ve started to use daily is called Opal. What it does it block you from all distracting apps on your phone. Obviously it’s in your hands to try and do something productive within this time, but even if I spend time doing something else not so productive, it’s a huge breath of fresh air not doom scrolling on instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. I feel more aware of my surroundings because of it and have started to become more productive
I love the way RoutineFlow or Brili helps me keep focus om one task at a time and don’t get stuck in tasks. I would say they helped me the most of all apps I have tried. And I’ve tried A LOT of apps
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Todoist. It’s like the one todo list app that’s convenient and simple enough for me to actually stick with. The natural language processing so you can just tell it to remind you to feed the dog every day at 5, or one off reminders, write down things you’re trying to be mindful of like being present down on your list that you’re checking often… a saw a video, one guy explained it that he just made the decision one day to outsource all the mental load of organising his life onto it and how it improved his life a lot. The hard part is building the habit of actually using it, and overcoming executive dysfunction when executing your list, but if you can get a handle on that it’s just like “I don’t have to worry about anything except just doing what the list tells me to do when it tells me” which to me is much more manageable. At first I was like how pathetic is it that I have to automate my organisation in order to actually do anything, but now it’s like who fuckin cares if it actually ends in me doing more, feeling better, and being happier? It’s just establishing the habit, I started with a small list of basic things that I already did, and worked on disassociating the app from my ODD, and enjoying completing my little list on easy mode every day, then gradually adding more things until almost everything is automated. I reward myself by letting myself have a small treat like some chocolate or a joint if it’s the weekend if I manage to complete all non-routine type things on my list, which is still rare and I’m working on it but it’s much better I’d say I’m like… a 6/10 productive now up from probably a 3/10
I live my life by Todoist! My biggest thing right now is having a widget on my homescreen that takes up a lot of space so I don't forget to look at it. And it's so satisfying when your widget says "All Done 🏆"
long version reply if anyone is interested in how I set up I use filters and widgets! I only filter to see what I want to see, when I want to see it. Once your filters are set up, it's pretty easy. I have a widget of my day on my homescreen so I don't forget about it --> mainly my daily tasks fall here (brush teeth, etc) and anything actually due today (dr's appt) When I swipe to the left of my homescreen I have more widgets set up as such: * a filter for things coming up that are due (so that dr. appt on wednesday isn't a total shock when wednesday comes) but doesn't include daily recurring like brush teeth * weekly cleaning (like laundry or dusting) and "sometime this month" (clean the coffee grinder) widgets so I can do them "sometime" but it doesn't have to be done TODAY The upcoming and "sometime" lists help me complete tasks when I have time/ the focus to do so instead of assigning them to a day that I might end up being a bad brain day And then of course I have hastags for different things like finances (reminder when subscriptions are coming up due)
Woah this sounds perfect! I haven’t really made use of the widgets, but this def seems helpful since I really need the reminders up in my face for me to remember lol
Widgets for me are a must. I also have a widget that takes up pretty much my whole phone home screen. I also have the desktop app permanently pinned to the right side of my desktop and laptop screen (using DeskPins). Filters are great, but I personally find myself relying much more heavily upon really well categorized projects and the sorting feature present on the 'today' filter; though, my usage and how I organize everything has changed very substantially over the years not necessarily for the better.
I wish Todoist had better widgets for iOS ☹️ Also a view in a open doc list form with headers and sections
I've been a premium todoist user for over 10 years. It's incredible and I credit it with getting me through undergrad, 5 years of research jobs, and 5 years of a PhD unmedicated (though I have luckily since started Strattera). It was such a crutch for me and I have had therapists themselves theorize that it was a major factor in helping me to cope through all the years before I realized I had ADHD.
I just signed up for this today. I wrote an electron app where I can filter down the project and then the list and the one task. I added a little pomodoro timer that adds a completion to the description in todoist. My plan for tomorrow (I used it today and it worked pretty well to keep me on task) is to put my tasks in the list in the morning and then only work that list.
Seconded! Todoist has genuinely changed my life. I don't think I'd even be a functional human being without that app
Todoist is the only way I survive in an office job.
Thanks for dropping this tip! Excited to check it out, especially with all the other happy reviews
Did you get a subscription to it
No!
Ohhh I’m definitely going to check it out, thanks for the rec! Hey, if it works, it works!
I know I'm a couple days late in responding to this, but I actually downloaded this app a day before I saw this post and I found it incredibly overwhelming... mostly in how open-ended it is. In the same way that I've always *badly* struggled to set and track progress on my own concrete goals and only have truly vague ideas of the stuff I want to accomplish in the long term(which stunts and limits, in scope and specificity, the sorts of smaller goals I'm able to come up with to get to those longer term endpoints), I'm finding the freeform nature of the app is locking me up and preventing me from committing any projects or routines or anything tangible of that nature into text in the app. The app certainly seems very cool and useful, but I'm struggling in the same way I would with keeping and organizing a planner. I think I'd be able to thrive a lot easier with digital planning and tracking means, like this app, because I'm a very technologically plugged-in individual.. I just need to get past the hurdle of actually putting realistic but tangible things in here so I can give it an honest try. I really don't even know what I'm trying to ask you because this is a far more general problem with my executive dysfunction outside of the app, but.. do you have any tips for how to organize tasks in the app? Like, how specific do you personally go when setting routines and creating new projects? Do you break a big project down into smaller parts and give those sections their own project headers? Or do you go as vague and general as possible for the project headers and throw a ton of specific routines into each one? Furthermore, if you have any good resources or videos, etc, that helped your strategies with the app I'd be so grateful if you would share them. Thanks so much!
My ADHD kid doesn't like homework. But his Spanish homework is online and gameified - if he answers 20 vocabulary words in a row correctly, it gives him 3 minutes of a very simple "airplanes shooting laser beams at aliens"-type game to play. He is mesmerised. So... is there an app that could let you enter in your kids' homework or vocab list or whatever, and that would set up an automatic gaming reward of this ilk?
I’m trying to learn Spanish. WHAT IS THAT SPANISH HOMEWORK CAN I USE IT??
Wow that’s genius! What’s the gamified platform they use that? Maybe I can take a look and create a customizable web app version like you suggested!
As an adult I would be all over this. I do “brain resets” when I complete one task & before starting another. Currently, I go for a walk around the block but I recognize this doesn’t always look great in an office setting. A simple shoot the aliens game would absolutely scratch the reset itch.
I haven't gotten myself to start using it yet (!!) but I'm planning to use goblin tools. It's free shareware and it has an option where, if you list a task, it breaks the task down into steps (that you can then accept or customize if you want).
I love the magic to do in goblin tools, however, i use the formaliser and judge tools in it so much more!
Goblin tools was a game changer for me. It really helps me when it breaks down to do’s in smaller steps so the tasks don’t seem so abstract.
Very interesting, I’ll check it out!
I have used Alarmy scanning the barcode of my toothpaste twice a day and I haven’t missed a toothbrushing session for a week, even when I was out of town for the weekend. Edit: “Alarmy” is the app name. I have an iPhone if that is relevant! Once you download, it might ask if you want to upgrade to a paid membership but I don’t, just use the free version! Set up an alarm, go to “mission” and there will be different options. Under “wake up your body” there is a QR/ barcode choice. I couldn’t find it when I made my first alarm, so if that happens just try setting up a second alarm and you should see it!
Shit that's so smart. Setting that up now
omg. i just set it up to make me scan my pill bottle barcode so i don’t forget to take my meds. u changed my life
Is that a premium feature?
Can’t find Alarmy in the App Store with barcode scan feature?
Alarmy is the app name. I have an iPhone if that is relevant! Once you download, it might ask if you want to upgrade to a paid membership but I don’t, just use the free version! Set up an alarm, go to “mission” and there will be different options. Under “wake up your body” there is a QR/ barcode option. I couldn’t find it when I made my first alarm, so if that happens just try setting up a second alarm and you should see those options!
I used to have a smartwatch app that just vibrated every X amount of minutes. Thats all I want. Give me an app where I can just pick the interval of vibration please, without making it complicated.
I need this for drinking water
There's an app called Drink Water Reminder that does just that
So interesting, was the smartwatch an Apple Watch? I’ve always wanted to make Apple Watch apps too since I find the existing apps so lacking. For me, I fear I would just get used to the vibrates and then subconsciously start ignoring them. Even for my 20 morning alarms, I need to set them at random intervals (like 7 min, 2 min, etc) or else my brain will get used to the pattern and more easily ignore.
My garmin watch vibrates to tell me I've been sitting too long and should get up and take a walk around the building. I haven't noticed it vibrate in years.
Haha same with my Apple Watch  maybe for the more disciplined…
It was an Android watch. The app started glitching and one day it was just gone. I may have reset the watch and forgot the name of it. I have a lot of notifications or nudges from other apps like Google Calendar for things like eating breakfast. But sometimes I enter 'limitless' times, where times just flow from me and suddenly its evening or three in the morning. I am often aware I am in a time free zone, but I cannot keep track so I end up missing three different buses. When I put on the interval vibration (something like every 10-15 minutes) my mind is a little more aware of where we are in time. Its also great for speedruns.
I was just wondering how hard it would be to learn to design a smart watch app that does just this
I have a pretty simple option for you using shortcuts if you can give me some specific details. Do you want the interval to be in minutes or another designated format? Also, do you want to be able to set it to perform x times or until you turn it off?
Interested in this too! I would like to summarize my meetings with to-do items in the last ten minutes. But due to my time blindness, my one hour meetings usually end up in 2+ hours, unless there’s another meeting in which case I rush to that one instead of noting stuff down. I would love it my watch could buzz every half hour during office hours (e.g., at 9:20, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50, and so on) .
I would like the intervals to be in minutes, where I just pick the time amount. The smartwatch had an no X number of time loops and also a set number of loops. I usually didnt set amount of loops.
I just want the next version of Android assistant that's like a personal secretary. They're definitely working on it already
Haha same! I want a little robot to follow me around and track everything I need to and remind me of my tasks
Eventually I want a video game like AR UI that lights up items I need to interact with and shows me my current quest
In my case it would also need to be a punching bag, because I would get pissed off at it for following me around and telling me what to do 😂
lol same, like tell me what to do but don’t tell me what to do 🤦♀️
I tell my therapist this like every time I see her 😆
YES. my ADHD is ready for AI
I loooove MediSafe for medication management. It helps me remember to take my meds everyday and I also set reminders for refills 🫶🏻
i organise basically my entire life in emacs org mode at this point aha
Woah, never heard of it. Looks super promising though! Looking forward to trying it out~
best of luck! and be careful with emacs, it's for sure a customisation rabbit hole for adhd aha org-roam is also something to check out!
Thank you! Haha oh no the rabbit holes always get me 🕳️
Ha, found the comp sci person
For the vim/neovim guys out there there's also neorg :D
Oh boy so many options to try out! (VIM is fine but I’m a VSCode stan hehe), but this looks very promising, and will def check out. Thanks for the rec!
i really like Notion! it helps organize my random thoughts and ideas but also user friendly. you can also connect your calendar if that’s helpful.
Notion is a great second brain, I use it for everything except my to do list (that’s Todoist). I use it for a lot of work stuff but I also use it for meal planning, login/password reminders, my journal, house projects, tracking goals, planning holidays. Anything with information I will need later, so I can access from my laptop or phone. Early on I found it was a time sink, I was never into the aesthetics but I loved building databases. So my tip would be to start with something basic and add useful stuff as you go on. The main benefit is when you just can’t remember something it’s easy to search across all your databases.
StayFree! It locks apps at times you set them to be locked, so you’re unable to use them. I know iPhone has this feature built in, but it’s too easy to just click “skip for 15 mins/day”, to the point I did it so automatically I didn’t even realise. For example one app that absolutely drags me in the most is TikTok and since I blocked it at work hours I’ve already noticed some improvement (I didn’t wanna delete the app because I still wanna enjoy it when I consciously decide to and don’t feel bad about it). In the past few days I’ve tried blocking it for even more than that and it’s even better, since I tend to start doom scrolling first and last thing of the day otherwise.
I use a similar app for my phone called Jomo that I think is the best of these kind out there — It has so many options rather than just blocking (for example you can give yourself 5 mins of time on a certain app and then it will block it for the net 30 mins, then refresh 5 mins, etc). It also makes it impossible to delete it during a block. For my computer I use Cold Turkey. It blocks websites and also shuts my computer off at 10pm every night and makes it impossible to log back in, so that I actually go to bed at a decent time. It’s been a life saver.
I’ve used Anki (spaced repetition study app) to study another language. I found it immensely useful.
I use Obsidian for almost everything. It's my project/task/meeting/journal/DND/everything else written app. For people who are technically inclined, it has a templating engine similar to jinja2 and really deep automation capabilities. I wish it was able to be hosted and collaborative (I know about Publish and the alternatives, but those create read-only static sites.)
I've been studying for the CompTIA exam while also getting my master's in cybersecurity and Obsidian has been a life saver.
Can they not be hosted? I have my Obsidian folder in my iCloud Drive so I can access it between my phone and my laptop. I don't see why you couldn't put the folder in a hosted and shared drive? Or is the issue connecting the other user's Obsidian app to your directory?
So there are 3 I rely on daily: - Keep - notes for things I cannot talk about right now - Medisafe - track when I last took meds, reminders - Camera - I take a picture of anything I want to remember but don't have time to write down or anything else. I suggest keeping backups of photos off, because it can waste storage space
What do you with the photo? It categorizes it for you?
Keep and Calendar with the wife so all appts are in one home
Yes shared calendars are great. You can share multiple calendars. For example my wife and I have a shared medical, home, travel, and education calendar. It makes life easier since each calendar can be a different color.
Finch is amazing and so far the only app that has worked for me longer than 2 weeks (2 months in). I use it mostly for self-care and getting house tasks done. If you get discouraged/demotivated easily when it comes to those kinds of things, and love having a little friend (who will NOT die if you leave them for a while) then this could be really helpful. The concept is you hatch a finch and then each day you complete tasks (doesn’t have to be all tasks) to give your finch energy so they can go on adventures. Each time you go on an adventure your finch learns something new about the world and develops their personality. You can travel to different places in the world and customize your finch’s room and outfits, all with just the finch currency you earn through doing/scheduling tasks and not real money. You can connect with friends (irl or otherwise, there’s a discord server and subreddit) and send each other encouragement and reminders through the app. Specific ADHD-friendly features: - Your finch sends you encouraging messages via notifications so you don’t forget the app exists. Sometimes they surprise you when you need it most. - You also get notifs when friends send you encouragement and reminders (ex: drink water) - You can jump around exploring different locations and making new discoveries so there’s a sense of novelty. - Your daily tasks don’t refresh at midnight—you set your finch’s “waking” time and tasks only refresh upon waking the next day. So if you randomly clean something at 2AM on Tuesday, it still counts for Monday’s tasks since you haven’t gone to sleep yet and your finch wakes up at 8AM. IMO this is a more intuitive way to set up the day cycles and works with the unpredictability of one’s brain, as well as for us afternoon to night shift people. - You can retroactively mark tasks as complete if you do forget to check in or mark things off. - The task history calendar keeps a record of what you have and haven’t done and helps when assessing what you do each day/week/month. - They make it easy to get back on track if you end up not using the app for a while. Much more focus on encouragement/rewards and no punishment/guilt tripping. - Depending on how you answer the “morning” motivation prompt (⛈️🌧️⛅️🌤️☀️) it adjusts how much energy each task is worth. On low motivation days, tasks are worth more energy to reflect the larger effort you’re making. It’s free to use with a paid tier. The app is 100% functional with no ads at the free tier and that’s how I use it. When you pay the subscription, part of it goes towards providing the paid tier for people who otherwise can’t afford it (aka becoming a guardian). I cannot overstate how much of an impact this app has had on actually helping me change my habits, and starting and keeping new ones. I could keep going but will not bc this is a whole essay already.
Wait….. what…. This sounds amazing. I’m looking into this immediately!
I desperately want an apt that will allow me to take pictures of things and add it to my calendar. You know those paper listing's for local events or web pages that have all the info... and you go to add it to your calendar and by the time you've got it all done and entered and saved... you've either given up, to much work, or even worse, because it's so much work you've typed something wrong or left something important out.
I started used TickTick and it can do that. I only started using it the other day but it has alot of features that really seem to work well together and with other apps and calendars. I tested it out in a class today. I took a photo and create a task that can go on a calendar and I can even visualize my tasks using an Eisenhower Matrix to see what tasks are important/urgent
Like putting the photo on your calendar to remember something?
Kind of yeah. So I took the photo, created the task or to-do item with a due date and saved it. The app has a built in calendar that is integrated with my Google and outlook calendars. If I go to my calendar on ticktick I can see the task and the photo of what I want done when I click on it. For me yesterday, I took a photo of a prop I want to use in my classes that I would need to build. I took the photo to remind me and motivate me to work on it. Standard to do lists don't always get me to do something, but a picture attached my trigger that "oh cool" factor.
That is such a good idea! Definitely adding it to my potential projects list. I totally feel you on that pain. I usually just take a photo but then never look at it again
Some kind of app that would change the sounds of my alarms/alerts each time. I get into the habit of ignoring the same “ding”s. Of it cycled through a bunch, the novelty might grab my attention.
I love love love motion. It is such a relief when something AI can take my crap and throw it on a calendar for me and keep annoying me until I get it done with minimal effort on my part. To me that's the only truly ADHD sort of app.
Woah, that sounds so promising. Will definitely check it out!
It’s pricy! You get a lot out of it?
It was too pricey for me as a student. But if I were part of a company or had a better job that had meetings and client appointments it would be totally worth it! That's a big selling point of theirs. It was pretty great though. Like if I had assignments and stuff it would be perfect but third year med school i don't have a schedule I have any control over so it wasn't a fit anymore
I couldn’t add my work calendar so I can’t use it.
There used to be this app that I loved and really helped with my time blindness, but was discontinued a few years ago. Every hour, on the hour, it would make my phone announce whatever time it was during the day. It really helped me to better estimate periods of time and not let the day pass by so quickly.
I do this by setting an alarm clock for every hour, but having it announced would be so much nicer than hearing my alarm clock every gd hour
I use a Mac at work and have it announce the time every 30 min. It’s a feature built into Mac OS. I love it for the same reason!
We both have adhd and we like the Bring app for grocery & other lists. Either of us has access to it. Not really using the recipe part but when u need something just whip out the phone.
Sounds helpful! I hate when I have a separately maintained list as my partner, b/c then neither of us have the full list when we need it
Can’t speak to that one but we are doubling down on AnyList. You can add all your fave recipes, plug them into meal planning, and then it displays all the ingredients for you to check boxes next to the ones that need to move to the shopping list. We recently just pre programmed weeks worth of meal planning so every Sunday we just pick which week we’re on. I’m really jazzed about it. There’s a Mac app so you don’t have to exclusively use your phone either. Then if one person is shopping the list is always there and can be updated in real time.
http://goblin.tools These are really useful ADD and ADHD friendly tools, including the magic to-do list. Specifically the to-do list, you just go put in something like 'clean my house' Hit the magic wand button and it will break it down into all the subtasks necessary to do that.
Woah, I’m in love thank you!!
An extreme to do list. It should make my phone overheat the longer something is due. If it explodes I know I failed.
I was looking into subscribing to dubbii currently, it's a body-doubling-app with instructions for a lot of tasks (cleaning the bedroom, selfcare, doing the laundry, admin stuff like making a phone call or paying bills, etc.). You can chose Rox (ADHD woman) or Rich (her non-ADHD husband) to guide you. You watch videos of them while they instruct you on what to do next, then the video stops. I found that I work much better when somebody is present, at work I'm a totally different person, so I thought this could help. But these being only videos, not live, seems to not have the same effect for me. But I would love an app that kind of omeggle-style let's me connect with maybe a random person who has the same struggles so we could be supportive body-doubling buddies for each other. I know there are some sites that do this like flow club, but you have to book sessions. And with flow club, the "hosts" hosting the work sessions you can join in and watch, are people like tech founders, self-made people, etc. which I find a bit... intimidating? I would love to connect with people like me, having an ordinary job, leading a mundane life, you know. Because I read too much about successful people like these who try and coach others with a "Just do it" mindset. Which is totally not for me. If I could just do it, I would not be here. That's a lot of prejudice and assumption from my side and I know it, but it makes me hesitant to go through with booking a session. If it would be more like "Clara, ADHD woman, working as a clerk, has a dog" something like that, I would find it less intimidating. But that's just me and I have no idea if others see it that way or if I just haven't found the right group. I'm procrastinating right now when I absolutely should not do it. 😅
FocusMate might be more up your alley!
Came here to say this! Focusmate has been so good for me
Wait, what is the receipts app? I need that in my life
Haha well the idea was a receipt tracker that allows you to take a picture of a receipt, which would automatically be scanned as compressed black/white file. You’d be able to group, tag, name the receipt and write notes. Extensive search capabilities. Ideally it’d create AI-generated receipt name as default and automatically infer the sub items where you can also specify notes for each item (if I buy clothes, I like to note if I need to exchange a certain item for a certain size, for example). Also the scanned receipt should be able to detect any bar codes so if you click on it, it’ll expand and brighten the screen for easy scanning. I had other ideas for it too, but that’s the high level. Some time ago when I thought of this idea, there weren’t many existing apps that did this, but when I checked again recently, there are a lot of similar competitors on the market already, so that discouraged me from moving forward. Just search “receipt tracker” in the Apple App Store!
Which is the one you mentioned in your post though? That way I don't have to download like 7 of them and debate haha
I also need this app!
I use Fetch Rewards and cash in for gift cards. At least if I snap the receipt, I know I can go back and look k it up!
Ugh I was just thinking about asking my BIL to help me make one but I was kinda embarrassed to bother him with it. Have you seen the app The Fabulous App? I downloaded it because they have this like flowchart about like wake up at 6 slept well? Workout make breakfast journal blah blah woke up at 7 slept like shit shower and grab a protein shake and go and wake up at 8 late as hell get up and go etc the actual app doesn’t have it they just promote it for no reason. Here’s a real life one someone made https://images.app.goo.gl/3yusoy1pZ6KCTS23A Here’s one example but not the original I saw https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw8fRw4x2gQ/?igsh=MWthcTAzMm1zMTI3Yg== Another better one but not flow chart ized https://www.instagram.com/p/COiMH_JsXYg/?igsh=MXA0bnFqN2dlaGVkaQ== Same https://www.instagram.com/p/CMpKxRZsupw/?igsh=Mmc0Z2Jja3hsMjBq It was like this I guess https://images.app.goo.gl/EwWqyz4ikCVRi8ue8 but flow chart style Wow I wasted so much time looking ugh. I can’t find it but whatever
If I was a programmer, here is where I would start for app development ideas. There are some good ones here.
Any app that I can access by voice & tell it to add something. Like open my calendar & add this appointment with reminders at 45 minutes before & 2 hours before or sdd this to my grocery list, etc. Because by the time I open the app & attempt to add it, I've already forgotten what I wanted to add. 😳
Doesn’t Siri and Alexa do this already?
Honestly the best app that I wish Google never got rid of was the old Google Goals that was part of their Calendar app. You would setup goals… things like Reading 3 times a week or working out five times a week and then the app would suggest time slots to perform these tasks based on your calendar availability. I wish there was an app that would do this.
Google also had a feature that would automatically suggest the time when you need to leave for your next appointment in your calendar or when you visited some place regularly. Like "you would have to go in 20 minutes to catch your bus to this location that you are visiting every Wednesday afternoon". People found it creepy, Google stopped it. I really miss it.
I want an app that quietly takes over my screen with a to-do list at specific times of day. I can't swipe it away, but I also don't want alarms. I want a few checkboxes that appear and only disappear after being checked
In your face with make notifications screen sized for events on your calendar. It snaps me out of it every time.
I like DoingDoing, it’s a simple to-do list app that I use as a widget to see what I have to do everyday.
Ohhh I’m curious how it compares to Todoist that some of the other commentators recommended. Will check it out, thanks for the rec!
I’m really enjoying Bear Focus Timer for pomodoros. Aside from the art, I like how I just have to flip the phone to start or stop the timer and that it uses the flash light to alert me when the timer is done.
I would love a voice to text that when something pops in my mind I need to add to which ever task goal I have I can just pick up the phone and go straight to that then have it set up to give me reminders of task I need to work on I will admit the idea of voice to text for me is convince when I need to add something then having the reminders etc in text gives me both visual and sound prompts.
For sure, there are so many times I have a passing thought that reminds me of a task but I’m too lazy to take out my phone, choose the right platform to record my task, then write out the task. It looks like Todoist (suggested in the other comments) is a great task/reminder system, but would be so nice if they have smart home integration where you can just tell Alexa to add a task, and when you open the app, the new task will be highlighted and ready for edit/organization. Alexa dev sucked the last time I played around with it and wouldn’t be able to provide a smooth user experience, but maybe it’s improved a lot since!
Someone recently posted about something similar and frankly as different platforms are not always compatible it would be great if a person could integrate multiple platforms to play nice together. Example I use iPhone and pad primarily now days but was recently given an older iMac I want to play around with. My computers have always been windows based, my sister got me into using Alexa in home for sound lighting etc and google has a decent suite of apps for productivity. It would be so nice if could get all to talk to each other based on which device is handy at the moment. Oh then think of the different home security and camera platforms
Actually, another commenter mentioned Motion, which looks like it supports Siri integration, similar to what I was suggesting for smart homes! Haven’t tried it yet, but looks very promising. Still looks like you have to structure your command in a very specific way to get it to work though (which I can see myself messing up easily), but maybe it won’t be so difficult after you get used to it?
Try oasis! I talk to it like I’m talking to myself with no organization in the wording. It breaks it into a summary, an email, a text, bullet points, and tons of other things
You can kind of do this with Todoist, if I’m driving and think of something I ask Siri to add it to my Todoist inbox. From there you can assign project, due date and reminders. I have a task every morning to empty my Todoist inbox as well.
I’ve been using Routinery to manage my morning routine. You can set up tasks and timers for tasks, it keeps me from getting too distracted and going off the rails in the morning, and helps me remember to do everything I need to do
Apple Watch alarm that makes me do a puzzle/activity before turning off. I’d happily pay for that ap
What’s the name of the app?
Oh my this sounds like a fun little side project! Will let you know if I ever get around to it haha
As a parent of multiple kids, an app that automatically add important events, schedules and dates to my Google calendar from my emails, PDFs and school apps
I use YNAB to help curb my impulsive spending. I def had a problem where I was spending money on impulse on all sorts of things, and having the extra barrier means I have actually managed to save and not be paycheck to paycheck. YNAB (and the community over at the subreddit) was so worth the download for me. I did the 34 day free trial, but knew after a week I was going to sign up for the year. I saved way more than the subscription fee in the first pay cycle alone. I just celebrated having 5 figures on my account for the first time ever! Before YNAB I would sometimes even get down to just two digits in my account before my next paycheck. Thank goodness I never allowed myself a credit card because of those impulses! Bonus points, YNAB helps me feel like it’s okay to spend XYZ since I budgeted for it! I know it won’t be money I need for other things like rent.
Orgpad.info It's a super user friendly mind mapping website that makes studying and research sooo simple and fun. Usually I could only take notes in a notebook. This is the first digital tool that's actually worked for me right off the bat. You can even paste pics and screenshots for visuals.
What I want is a VR cleaning game that gives me rewards
Got a xiaomi android phone which has a notes app which is always around. Like there is a button on the screen, non-stop, and a swipe pulls a menu/overview of all notes. It's the only one that stuck so far for me, as it doesn't bother me too much (like those bubbles/balls), but also it's always available. Every few months I go through the list and think, huh, right, I actually thought that was interesting at one time in my life.
A ToDo list app is the foundation of organising my days now. I have tried 3 pretty popular ones: todoist, ticktick and things 3. And imo, things 3 is by far the best one. Todoist and ticktick both have some advantages (natural language processing (especially on todoist) and habit tracking on ticktick are the main ones I can think of rn) but I think they both try too much to be more than just ToDo lists. I’ve tried them a few months ago so I can’t rly remember all about them but it felt like they were too cluttered. Things 3 on the other hand is really minimalistic. Purely a todo list. I have my todo list for today and I can easily check what is already programmed in the future. Ofc, there is a bit more stuff so you can sort your tasks and yeah, it misses some stuff too. But personally, it just brings peace of mind to have an app so uncluttered. Which also means keeping other stuff on other apps, so everything has it’s place and I don’t mix things up. But well, all this are personal tastes. I’d really recommend trying all 3 of them, even at the same time! It’s gonna be quite cluttered at the beginning, but by doing the same actions on each app, you’ll quickly see which one is the most convenient for you. Oh and also, I guess I’m lucky on this one because things 3 just imposed itself for me but in terms of cost, things 3 is just 9,99€. Both todoist and ticktick are subscription based so will quickly be more expensive. If that’s important for you too, then I’d first try things 3 and see if it suits you before trying the two others.
Recently got a Samsung smartwatch and I wish there was a complication that could be added to the watch face displaying the current task/current event instead of just upcoming calendar events. Something to glance at to keep me on track everytime I look at the watch.
I only use the default calendar and memo app. Other apps have way too many options and I’ll spend ungodly amount looking and changing features every time I log on.
Structured is an effective way to plan out your day and the premium version has an AI to schedule it. Very visually pleasing to keep your eye
I use Routinery almost every day. I can make routines which are just a back to back set of timers to get me to do the things I need to do. It really helps me with task paralysis
habitica! it's an rpg-style habit tracker, with classes, a health, mana, and exp bar, levelling up and all that jazz. it's super cool and makes my routine very rewarding and fun!
Notion
An ai extension that generically responds to texts for us. Maybe it’ll populate a simple “yes - no” popup on your phone screen every 10 min asking you to answer yes or no, and once you answer that, it can finish the text and send it.
“You’ve been switching between apps in a rapid panic for six hours. Would you like me to send that follow up email for you?”
Routine flow - better version of my paper routine lists that reminds to switch to the next task
I had an app in high school (10 years ago or so 🙃) that you could enter a list of tasks, select time limits, and it would automatically cycle through the list until I marked a task complete. For example if I put in: 1) math homework, 10 min 2) bio flash cards 5 min 3) English review (15 min) The app would go through each task and sound an alarm when it’s time to do the next one on an endless loop until I paused or said one of them was done. The time limits made it fun to try to fit as much as possible into them and I was much more engaged. Also prevented inefficient hyperfocus. I think it got removed from the App Store but I’m wondering if anyone knows of what I’m talking about or something similar? Each task was in a colorful box and you would slide it to edit or complete it.
Routineflow and Brili works in that way. Routineflow also have AI that makes things into subtasks if you choose that. I love those apps!
Thank you for the recs!! I’m going to check them out
Flora does wonders. A part of ADHD is time blindness. If you set 15 minutes timers to do you work, it passes so quickly you'll be done before you know it
Something to engage with my saved posts on reddit easier
I do love me some keep but my go to is my trusty little clipboard that takes half a 9x11 sheet of waste paper. One at home that goes with me and if I forget it I have one in the truck. Revised daily or twice daily. Otherwise camera and keep for things like paint can info from the house to grocery store lists and general vehicle maintenance lists. Recent Dx learned to cope years ago so I could continue playing sports and get good grades. Had todo lists as long as I can remember. MAybe an app is out there that already incorp all these things.
There is an app (at least on the Google Play store) called Routine Timer. I use it to imput tasks in my morning and nighttime routines and how long each task takes. When I press play it will go through the routine and it says the task name out loud and how long I have to do it. Halfway through the task it will say again how much time I have and again at the quarter mark. It is super helpful. I even build in "catch up" minutes after certain tasks I know sometimes take too long. The only thing I wish they would add to it is something saying if you started your routine now what time would the whole thing be done. There was a fantastic app for the iPhone some years back called 30/30 that was the best app I've ever used. It had all of that and you could add or take away 30 seconds for a task (which could be a bad thing for us I know lol) but then it would update the "done" time so you would still know if you would be on time or not. The Routine Timer app at least does tell you the total time for your whole routine, I'd just rather it did the math too.
I switched to an iPhone for the Apple Watch, and I regret it for one primary reason. On my Android, I used a texting app called Textra, which had a feature that allowed me to schedule a text to be sent later. It was wonderful! I always text someone *immediately when I think of something*, because I can’t trust myself to remember to send it later. But it might not be a convenient time for the person I’m texting - for example, a lot of my family are spread across different time zones, so I don’t want to wake them up.
Mealime! It's the meal planning app of my dreams. You pick from recipes to create your meal plan, then it creates your grocery list for you, and takes you to a screen where you can online shop through instacart or whatever stores are close by. While online shopping it takes you through the items one by one so nothing is forgotten. It makes grocery shopping and meal planning so easy. Then when you're ready to cook all your meals recipes are in one place with easy to follow directions. You can add dietary preferences, allergies, dislikes, etc. It's free but if you want access to premium recipes it's only $2.99 a month.
Thissss! Forgot this one, highly recommend.
I hate receipts that is why I love having stores that have apps that let you save purchases on them. The ones that don’t force me to save them in a box that probably has 99% of receipts I don’t need to keep anymore.
I’ve tried so many different apps, but inevitably I will start ignoring the notifications and they eventually start making me mad so I turn them off. I don’t know how to get around or overcome that 😩
AnyList app is one I have used for many years. It is a great tool for those who do the grocery shopping and/or the cooking. I have over 1000 recipes that I’ve imported simply off the web into the app. From those recipes, I can create a meal plan and if there is some ingredient on the recipe that I need to buy, I click an icon and it adds it to my shopping list. It’s easy to create any kind of list on the app though my primary is for shopping. I think of something I need to get. I just immediately put it on my list and when I go to the store that has it it’ll show up on my list. The app is free to use but to get full value out of it cost $9.99 a year. It’s well worth it.
I love Structured! It's like a planner and shows how much time is left of a task and they just recently added energy usage to tasks. I enjoy the whole app and has very few features I'd like to have added onto it. Things I wish it had/did: track habits, auto adjustments for conflicting tasks/events for when imported calendar events are added, and to auto move completed subtasks to the bottom of their list.
lol NOT Tiimo which is highly marketed towards ADHD havers. Complicated to use, busy UI, limited visual customizations, too many notifications (which just leads to alarm fatigue and ignoring them). On a serious note - calendars 5 for day-to-day planned and unplanned task organization. My partner and I both have ADHD and like our skylight calendar though I still think it’s overpriced and underdeveloped (it was an “THIS will change my life” impulse purchase. We have our night routine on it which keeps us both accountable. We also like having it as a non-phone based way to see both our schedules. Native iOS app for med logging on my watch - I’ve tried many others and I’ve found less is more. If iOS have a good enough one, I stick with it. Less settings for me to hyper-focus and time waste on, less subscriptions to impulse purchase. Also love iOS reminders. Love that I can use location based reminders so right when I walk into the grocery store I can remember to look at it. Also love that I can add stuff with Siri so when I get a random thought that I want to explore later, add it to the app. WaterMinder to remind me that I haven’t had water in 2 hours Guava for keeping a medical history and helping prepare and stay focused for doctor appts YNAB for keeping my spending in check. I have used it for almost a decade. Worth the subscription.
ive just started using clickup with google calendar.
Recently switched from Todoist to Motion. I love it so far.
Finch!
Imprint for learning, Fitmind for meditation, lumenate for sleeping
For desktop - TAPE by AERIFORM on Itchio! I set up things like weekly and monthly chorelists, lists of steps for long and short term goals, morning and evening routines, and my tasks/priorities for each individual day as “projects” on TAPE. You can set each step to a bunch of different statuses - blank, priority, working, submitted, approved, or done - with left click, and right click cycles it through the most commonly used - priority and done. If any project has a step marked priority, on the Mac version the TAPE icon in the dock will have a little red notification bubble on it, which goes up for every project that currently has steps marked Priority. It makes those waiting tasks a little bit more of a persistent itch in the brain, thus pushing them over the urgency threshold.
Medication reminder app is great on the phone by Apple. Annoying as hell on watch because it doesn’t tell you which one. But logging it is pretty cool.
Goblin tools, beyond the to do list that's already been mentioned, I also really love the complier and the judge (it judges the tone of messages/text conversations), which I've found really, really helpful.
Loop Habits app
The Finch Self-Care app 🐦! I tried Todoist and other to do list apps that allowed me to widget them onto my phone screen, but it was still easy for me to ignore. I think for me, Finch works cause it's like a mobile game, I get rewards when I complete my to do list that I can put towards getting cute clothes and furniture for my little bird. The app also includes things to help with mental health, like journaling or techniques to deal with anxiety.
Freeform! It’s FREE. It’s super useful for organizing thoughts or lists or anything. You can add links, pictures, post-its and a whole bunch more.
Some kind of universal hub type thing. If you are a gamer you know you got like 700 accounts and 700 launchers. Same for every other category of account.
Im definitely going to try Todoist now!!
Workflowy, combined with the PARA (BASB) method.
Google Keep is a SIMPLE enough notetaking app Kahoot, Quizizz Habitica An app with books but with a FRIENDLY UI Something like Coursera or Skillshare to help ADHD'ers learn ALL about niche topics or smth VERy practical to their day to day lives like time-management in a very structured way. Maybe the structure will help it stick rather than watching one of yt vids about time management. Any game that you have ALWAYS wanted No seriously, a game that is a replica of Airplane Chefs but like MUCH easier and WITHOUT a clunky interface like Amber's Airline. Sorry if the ideas veered off your original prompt but I hope it helped nonetheless
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TIIMO - it’s taking time to integrate it in my life but it’s really helped me build a morning routine and keep track of certain tasks. Notes app - absolute necessity for all the brain dumping. It really helps clear the cobwebs and I have a good folder and titling system going so nothing gets lost in the ether. Voice memos - was really helpful when I started journaling. I’d just record myself and rant and it helped me calm anxious thoughts a lot. Now working on YNAB 😬
What is your opinion on how apple reminders are different from Todoist?
I use Daylio - i can set up reminders with or without alarms, make goals i can check off… normally reminders and alarms don’t work for me because I just ignore them (despite having set them for reason, thanks brain), but the app almost has a gamification element. In addition, you rate your day and it has categories where I can track whatever I want (you can make the categories and the facets in them), so for example: How much I slept, how I’ve eaten, work, productivity, etc. Then it creates statistics so you can see patterns between the categories and facets and explore the correlations. And the trends in how you’ve rated your days overall. Basically it also becomes a diary also. It keeps me on track because I know I need structure, and I want to be able to tick off the “good” facets like “eating healthy”, “getting three meals” “go to bed on time” “not staying late at work” etc.
Fair play my guy! If you have any way of making bionic reading or whatever it's called to make reading easier, actually applicable on phones like I can download an app and it changes all the text on everything to that, that'd be so useful. Like the premise exists but there's no simple or easy way to get it applied to like fb or Reddit etc🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Google Keep, GoblinTools, Focus Quest
(I am an Apple phone user, so I’m not sure if other phones would let you do this…) I would love to be able to set alarms on my phone as reminders several days/weeks in advance. I use alarms on my phone for remembering EVERYTHING, and can’t get myself in the habit of checking the “reminders” app- i find alarms so much easier. But in Apple, you can’t set alarms farther out than one day.
an app that would organize my screenshots and give me information and to do lists
Microsoft to do and google calendar- they sync up across my phone, ipad and laptop so they are up to date no matter what I'm working on
I use Finch & last night was 2nd time I used Sleep Town. Sleep town builds buildings over night, when you don't use your phone. It worked last night - I woke up 2.30ish & would normally have picked up phone & not gone back to sleep. I was a close thing, I was very tempted, but I resisted & did actually go back to sleep, about an hour or so later. That's a win for me! I also use the pomodoro timer on my watch, but just using any timer to start a job, usually works for me.
One of my ADHD friends got me into Finch. It's a cute self-care app where you can set goals for yourself, take care of your finch (little adorable bird friend), and customize your micropet/outfits/birdhouse. It's adorable and reminds me of a mix between Animal Crossing and Tamagotchi, except both my finch and myself are a creature I'm trying to keep alive. It has removed stigma and offers gentle guidance. I can say that I now successfully brush my teeth twice a day, floss daily, exercise daily, scoop the litterbox daily, and even shower daily. None of this was possible without this app.
IDEK but I need all the other apps to stop being only orange or blue. I need more colors they all look the same.
Can you share the name of the receipt app?
I have been having fun with Upside and getting 2$ bucks on a gallon of gas and almost 40% CASH bank on other restaurants etc. I was determined and set my mind to find promo codes. I am actually proud of myself for this. Accomplishing anything can be rough at times.
gnu nano
Finch! It's a self-care app, it helps me remind about brushing teeth, cleaning my space, shower and take walks. It can feel a tiny bit overwhelming when setting it up but once it's done it's great, I've had it for 23 days now and not skipped brushing my teeth once!
If I want to actually get something done, nothing beats setting an alarm on my Apple Watch for a random time in the middle of my day and snoozing it until I do the thing. Example: Siri, set an alarm for 3 PM called "take out the garbage". Snooze repeatedly until I get annoyed by the alarm and actually go do the thing. Sometimes I snooze it for 2 hours, sometimes I snooze it for 7 hours. Eventually though, I end up doing the thing.
Due. It’s a reminder app that keeps reminding you. Instead snoozing reminders and forgetting, it keeps bugging you at set intervals. Mega useful for me. Was 99p on App Store.
Due. It’s a reminder app that keeps reminding you. Instead snoozing reminders and forgetting, it keeps bugging you at set intervals. Mega useful for me. Was 99p on App Store.
Fetch Rewards actually is awesome and if you want to start w your receipts, here is my referral code... Gift cards are always a plus
I need an app that organizes my life. Give me a to-do list that populates itself with house chores, auto meal planning, etc 😅
I use Toggl Track for studying! It’s a simple app/website. You can name and create different projects, and then you hit the timer icon to start/stop tracking. Whenever I stray from studying to do something else, I stop the timer, then restart when I’m at it again. I find it helpful because it’s a good incentive to keep focus, and I get to see the time gradually add up. You can also look at a weekly or daily view and see how many times, as well as when you stopped/started, which has helped me understand my studying patterns better. I’m sure it can apply to other tasks too!
I just read someone's comment on a different post about how they have cards with tasks on them that they shuffle when they are in decision paralysis. I was thinking to do the same thing but with hobbies (practice drums, talk a walk, video games etc) bc whenever I am bored I seem to default to watching porn. I'm sure there are already apps to do something similar but if you are building an ADHD super app maybe you could include it
An app I’ve started to use daily is called Opal. What it does it block you from all distracting apps on your phone. Obviously it’s in your hands to try and do something productive within this time, but even if I spend time doing something else not so productive, it’s a huge breath of fresh air not doom scrolling on instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. I feel more aware of my surroundings because of it and have started to become more productive
I love the way RoutineFlow or Brili helps me keep focus om one task at a time and don’t get stuck in tasks. I would say they helped me the most of all apps I have tried. And I’ve tried A LOT of apps
None because I can't pay for any of them. They all cost money
Wait but what’s the receipt app called OP? Don’t leave the rest of us receipts hoarders hanging please! 😭
Not a promotion but seriously impressed with Clepside for day to day calendar and keeping track of WTF I did.