What apps do you find helpful for any adhd concerns??
I use the calendar that’s built in my phone to remind me of my school schedules (where I need to go and when, I can never remeber that).
Other than that, I use a bullet journal. Not an app, but allows me to remeber some events and plan out schedules. There are bullet journal apps, but I prefer pen and paper.
I also put all of my college classes in my calendar app you’d think that after a month id remember when my next class starts
but nope lmao
Idk for me I don’t have to remember anything. I just have to put an alarm on my phone and when it vibrates, I check it and it tells me where to go.
I also turn off all notifications on my phone except the calendar app because it would be annoying if I would check my phone and it wasn’t an event that I had to attend, but that’s just my opinion
Alarms are a must have for me sometimes
Even if I don’t “need” it
I find that I get so stressed on if I’m gonna miss some event and keep checking the clock every 5 minutes and having a alarm really calms me down
Edit: typo
I use an app called Awesome Habits which is on the phone and on the desktop. It helps me remember all of the little things I need to do in a single day, week, month that I know will cause me to panic if I try to remember them on my own. All I have to do is look at the app a couple times during the day to make sure I am on top of things - I think I am tracking 30 different habits currently.
I was sad to see this is only on apple products. Anybody know of an Android app that’s similar?
There’s Habitica, which is cross-platform, and might be worth looking into. It also has habit tracking, but it also has gamification elements, for better or worse.
I tried to use Habitica but it always felt over-complicated, due to shoehorning each set of habits into the gaming format, for simple tracking software. If you can get over the extra upkeep I’m sure it’s both fun and worth it.
I’m using habitica but honestly I hate the app and there is some drama there that may make me leave. Also I have integrated all my calendars so it is all linked to my Google calendar and shows work and personal. And Trello it’s a virtual kanban board with cool integrations
I also use Trello! Been using it for a decade to track assignments for classes (at the graduate level now) and other things I need to get done - the calendar subscription is super helpful because it puts all the due dates right into my iPhone and google calendars
Im using it to keep track of buying a house with my partner (there are so many little steps) and I love being able to leave comments so I remember or so he can update me on stuff.
wooo good luck with getting the home!!
Thanks! its so stressful and we are just getting started.
Due for the iPhone is excellent. It’s a reminder app that nags you every five minutes until you get The Thing™ done. Before I started using it, I had a problem with forgetting reminders once they appeared. This never happens anymore and I actually manage to get some things done!
I also use Due - it’s become an important part of my every day that reminds me of anything important
I find that I have to be careful and remove things that aren’t important to me any more as they change otherwise I can get alarm fatigue and start ignoring reminders though. I suspect that would be true of any system I used, though!
Yes, I’ve also experienced this. I called it “reminder inflation” but alarm fatigue is a much better term!
Oh damn, I’ll check it out! Thanks :)
I hope you’ll like it! It’s the only app i’ve found that actually delivered on its promise of being ADHD-friendly.
so far this seems super promising! i like how it will import iOS reminders - and that means that location based reminders will get pushed over to due once i get within the geofence (and it fetches it from the app) – I even set up a shortcut to have a laundry timer because thats been something i forget about all the time after the alarm goes off
I use Todoist with a combination of Buzzkill so that a scheduled task spams me every five minutes. I’ve tried actual habit tracker apps but they never seem to work for me.
Never heard of buzzkill but after looking it up I am a hundred percent in. I have a friend who only texts in tiny short bursts of 200 one sentence texts.
yeah you can do stuff like snooze notifications for a certain amount of time! Notifications have become something I can actually pay attention to now.
Just started with using Lunatask to help keep myself on task, and help me remember a lot of the little things I tend to forget. I’m still learning what the app is fully capable of, but it’s been super helpful to me so far.
It is an end-to-end encrypted, cross-platform, todo list, notebook, habit and mood tracker, and journaling app built with ADHD brains in mind. The creator has also expressed some willingness to open source in the future, but there is no guarantees there.
Actually, this might be helpful! I was using Notion for bullet journaling stuff but realising that I never went back to it. This might prove better for me in the end.
This looks really interesting, but no mobile or web apps is a bit of a bummer 😕
iPhone & Android apps are currently in Beta. The iOS app is particularly stable, and anyone can sign up to join the Testflight here. Approvals happen every week sometime between Monday and Wednesday.
Goblin tools to break up those daunting tasks into small bits
Todoist is the main one. Everything I need/want to do is in there. Besides that, a calendar (Google Calendar to be precise, but any calendar would work, I don’t need anything complex from it), and finally Obsidian as my knowledgebase/2nd brain. Main things I use Obsidian for is journalling and expense tracking which helps with my impulsive buying problems.
Tasks.org, with deadlines set on each task. I use it mostly as a way for remembering random things in the moment that I should do later. Otherwise, everything goes into the calendar, synced between all family members (or as I like to call it: The Rainbow of Obligation, due to the scintillating display of event colors that make my phone screen look like Nyan Cat whenever I need to check my schedule).
Browser on desktop and Jerboa on my phone. Are there even other Android apps yet?
Jerboa and browser
https://goblin.tools/ is an amazing app/site for helping neurodivergent people plan. The dev is great and there are apps for Android and iPhone.
Tried many things during a long life. In fact, if you are not wedded to the Microsoft platform, than google tasks, calendar, gmail, and docs can combine to a surprisingly good and rather simple solution. But recently I fell in love with obsidian. Perhaps a bit more complicated than some others, at least initially, but also much more flexible and capable. In addition, multi platform (windows, mac, linux, android, ios) and you own your data, kept on your machine, in time proof text format, rather than on some cloud server, that eventually will hold you to ransom. With other systems I have eventually run into a crippling cul-de-sac, in obsidian there always seems to be a way out. Perhaps, it is not so good for teamwork, rather for the lonesome, hyper focussed keyboard worrier. But for them, it rocks.
