ADHD Why streaks backfire with ADHD, and what to notice instead Day 23, then one bad Tuesday, and the app you loved now greets you with a zero. Why streaks tend to backfire with ADHD, and a kinder way to see what you got done.
ADHD Why can't I start tasks? The five-minute trick You know what the task is. You know how to do it. You've had an hour. Here's why starting is a separate problem from doing, and a five-minute trick that works on it directly.
ADHD Why five minutes feels like an hour (and an hour like five) You sat down for a minute and it's dark outside. You had twenty minutes to leave and somehow you're late. Time blindness goes both ways. Here's how to borrow a sense of time.
ADHD Why you get more done when someone's in the room Nobody's helping. Nobody's watching. They're just there, and the task that was impossible alone gets done. Here's why company works, and how to get it when you're on your own.
ADHD Body doubling for ADHD, and other ways to get started when you're stuck Sometimes the thing that gets you started isn't a plan or a system. It's another person in the room, doing their own thing. Here's how body doubling works and what to pair it with.
ADHD What to look for in a to-do list app when you have ADHD Most 'best to-do apps' lists rank features. With ADHD, features are usually the problem. Here's what to actually look for, what to avoid, and how to test an app before committing.
ADHD A simple daily routine for ADHD using one list Elaborate routines collapse the first bad week. This one has three parts, takes a few minutes a day to maintain, and works on the days you don't feel like it.
ADHD ADHD task paralysis: what to do when everything feels urgent Ten things are urgent, you're doing none of them, and you've been staring at the list for an hour. Here's a two-minute way out that doesn't require feeling better first.
ADHD Why productivity systems keep failing ADHD brains It's not that you didn't try hard enough. Most productivity systems have a maintenance cost that ADHD makes unaffordable. Here's what to look for instead.
ADHD The ADHD brain dump: get it out of your head without building a system A brain dump works because it takes the weight out of your head. It stops working the moment you try to organise it properly. Here's the minimum that helps.
ADHD Visual timers for ADHD: how to use one with your to-do list A visual timer makes time something you can see instead of something you have to feel. Here's why that helps with ADHD, and how to use one with a single task.
ADHD Why ticking things off matters more when you have ADHD Ticking a box looks trivial. For an ADHD brain that struggles to feel far-off rewards, it's one of the few payoffs that arrives on time. Here's how to make it work harder.
ADHD Why your ADHD to-do list is too long, and what to do instead A long list isn't a discipline problem. It's a capture problem meeting a choosing problem. Keep the list, and change how you pick from it.
ADHD Colour-coding tasks for ADHD: simpler than projects and tags Projects, tags, folders and priorities all need maintaining. A handful of colours don't. Here's how to use them without turning it into a system.
ADHD How to start a task when you have ADHD You know what to do. You even want to do it. And yet you've been sitting there for forty minutes. Here's what's going on, and what actually helps.