5 Game-Changing Productivity Apps For ADHD
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Thanks to xTiles for sponsoring this video. xTiles is a digital planner that allows me to dump out all my chaos into the app and then immediately start to organize it so it’s less overwhelming. This is absolutely my new favorite app! You can try out xTiles for free: xtiles.app/en?...
These are the five productivity tools that work for my ADHD brain, and I bet at least one will be a game changer for you! These apps help turn chaos into something manageable, and some are just plain fun to use. Ready to level up your productivity? Let’s dive in!
The apps featured in this video:
Mind Mapping - Aoya: www.ayoa.com/
Second Brain - xTiles: xtiles.app/en?...
Planning Your Week - Sunsama: www.sunsama.com/
Distraction Blocker - Opal: www.opal.so/
Checklists: I was using the Reminder app that came preinstalled on my iPhone.
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I hope these tools and apps are helpful!! xTiles is my favorite right now and you can try out right now for free: xtiles.app/en?fp_ref=jessica - Thanks to xTiles for sponsoring this video.
try mind mode
Something I REALLY love about how you describe all these tools is by showing real use-cases, not just a bunch of blank boxes that say example example example. I can not only understand how these tools are helpful, but how they might work into my flow. Thank you!!
Aw thanks for saying that! It was super vulnerable trying to show what I was doing
I personally use the Finch app for tasks and productivity, when it's just a simple to-do list. Having a little finch bird that grows up and discovers the things of the world as you accomplish your goals just makes me wanna _do_ things.
Yes!! I use Finch too, I almost included it but was saving it for a list of self care tools ☺️
@@HowtoADHD I used to use Finch for productivity but switched to using it for productive self care and it seems to work so much better. I have tasks that I can usually complete on good or bad days but they keep my space a bit cleaner, my body a bit healthier, and I'm motivated to avoid some bad habits. Self care is the number one thing I drop that makes everything else worse so the motivation of the little birb is great!
I honestly think it's better to separate my work tasks, self care tasks, and house tasks in three different apps. It's probably not helpful for some people because it's semi-organized chaos, but I stop using apps if I use them for too many things and it took me forever to figure that out.
@@tiryaclearsong421 Absolutely, I mostly use it for self care and house care productivity. Work productivity I'm still looking for solutions on, hence why I came to this video. 😁
@@HowtoADHD It definitely brooks on this list as a fun engaging app for managing daily/weekly/monthly routines as well as to-do's. It's the only app that has worked for reminding me about things like vitamins and medications, booking appts, etc.
@@CavatinaProductions YEEES! Plus the saving up of diamonds to buy clothes and furniture makes me want to come back and do more stuff! Even if it’s just, “write in notebook,” or adding errands for that day alongside my daily habits!
I’m posting this comment before watching to the end of the video to recommend Goblin tools! It costs 0.99 cents, but there’s NO in app purchases and it honestly helps me a LOT. It’s mainly a list app, but it can also help you break down tasks to make them simpler, rewrite thoughts and ideas, and it generates recipes based on what you have in your fridge!
Oh! Yes I forgot about this one! Thank you so much
The website is free!
I still love Obsidian for combining a lot of these tools into one place. Their Canvas tool is so cool for visual storyboards. It's a good place for me to toss things that I'm thinking about but might not be ready to do and have a section of stuff I'm interested in now
Oh yes! I’ve heard great things about Obsidian too
Quick critique, if you can't do everything you'd like to do with the free tiers of these apps, every one of them are SaaS (software as a service). A lot of people are starting to get tired of being nickel and dimed by every single product they use. If there are alternatives to these that you can just buy once and own or even open source or free options, I'd be way more interested in that.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I’ve noticed almost everything is on a subscription model now too…I’ll keep my eyes peeled for tools that aren’t and maybe do a video specific to those!
ADHD Tax hurts worse split over so many apps.... so I agree
yayyy i’ve been waiting for this!
If you're a fan of Pokémon and have low motivation to take care of brushing your teeth; Pokémon Smile. There's no penalty for missing a day aside from just you don't catch the Pokémon as quick, and the visuals are cute and colorful to give you that serotonin to motivate you to keep at it.
Oh neat!! I hadn’t heard of that, thanks for recommending
Thank you for this. I’ve been struggling with productivity lately real bad at work 😅😂
Of course! Hope this helps!
@@HowtoADHD it does!! Thanks again ☺️
My only problem with mind mapping is that I often spend more time trying to arrange the diagrams than I do putting information into the diagrams.
Ahaha yeah I could see that…I definitely appreciate that Ayoa makes it quick & easy to rearrange them when I realize one branch should actually be part of another or w/e
I've had similar experiences! Ayoa seems really simple so I'm willing to give it a shot. I've found success with starting my mind map on paper then transferring when my page gets too crowded. This help me to keep the ideas free flowing at the outset and then easier to maintain digitally in the future. I've also found that digital whiteboarding is much more friendly to my thinking/presentation style as opposed to PowerPoint style slideshows. I know I digress but hopefully makes sense as a parallel to the mind mapping discussion!
Me too.
"A, Z, Anteater..." 😂 sleighs!
Giraffe!
Thanks for everything you’ve done to help!!!
You are so welcome! 🤗 Thanks for making me smile
Regarding sleep, I think it's worth looking at recent findings that the timing of a meal or snack can have a strong influence on circadian rhythm. Not everyone can eat to a schedule, but when I was traveling long distances for work, I found that adjusting the time I ate gave me more traction in the fight against jet lag than trying to force my sleep schedule to shift.
I'm using school planner, love the new ideas, I'll try them out
So the thing is this: It would actually be really nice to have software support me in some of the usual daily challenges. However, it is very tedious to separate the good from the bad. There are a bunch of companies agressively pushing their apps at ADHD content viewers, and on top of that, ADHD content creators also get sponsored by some of these apps every now and then. To me, it feels too frustrating and tedious to filter through this mess and maybe find something that is worth being integrated into my routines. I wonder if other people feel similarly.
Imo #1 tip always is you have to BELIEVE you can change and improve. You're not a victim to ADHD, it's just a small part of you.
YES! Truth! For years, I wanted to be allowed to have a problem due to my invalidating mother. But now, my ADHD affects MY LIFE. Not hers. So it took me taking that back and deciding, I want to fix this. I want to treat this.
This is the exact thing I’m trying to get my 12yr old son to understand. Thank you for saying it. I took a screenshot of your comment to show my him.✌🏻😊
Must be top comment. Love yourself but dont cry
No, its not a small part of you, lmao. Its literally your whole brain structure, your adhd is probably very mild so shut up. It has ruined my life
people can still suffer from adhd even if they try hard to change and improve
FINCH!!! Best ADHD friendly app I've ever used. 🐦❣️
Yas! I am trying this for the first time and loving it so far!
Ever since they made me make an indented outline for a term paper in 11th grade, it has helped me make sense of everything in the world so much - seeing what things fall under what things... LOVE
App rec: Due, it's a to-do list that keeps reminding you. eg I have it remind me to take meds at 8am, if i dismiss it, it will remind me again in 1 or 5 min intervals until I actively choose to delay it with options, or just take the damn meds.
Not related to the video but I read your book recently and it's been eye-opening :D
I use Keep Notes for lists and Notion for writing down my thoughts and it's been very helpful also!
My mind goes numb too quickly with tech. I need physical paper. Over the years adopted the absolute bare minimum of "getting things done" by david allen. I had to tweak it as my mind forgets faster and has sever trust issues with any system. So his weekly review I do every other day and his definition of projects I shorten from "within a year" to this quarter also had to change the "map" concept a bit to help me and not hinder me. he has two TED talks and the concept will be understood from those videos. I also like the implementation video with Linda a dutch tv host. His book is a book so nothing I will ever read from start to finish. But! It is written and segmented in a way that with the index only short paragraphs that are of interest can be read.
For us ADHD people it is important to reduce friction as much as possible. That is why I use paper as it doesn't need batteries.
It reduced the constant grind to try to remember stuff and keep stuff in my head and I'm much more at peace with myself.
I use the Reminders app on my iPhone like mad crazy. Through my Wople Watch, I just say “Hey, Siri, remind me to do [this] in 5 minutes”. (Right now my Watch is being fixed on, won’t return for a few days, omg it’s hard to recall anything 😭😭😭) It’s a lifesaver. If this was 20 years ago, I’d be using so many sticky notes, my desk would be covered in them 😅
My issue is that I forget that I have the apps in the first place lol
That’s my struggle as well😭
ToDoist has been helpful for me, especially for meal-planning (they have a template for that!). What's been most helpful is that I can not only assign meals to days, but I can make a "sub-checklist," so a reminder goes off the night before telling me to defrost whatever is needed for the next day's dinner.
I use my phone for everything, not my computer. Could you sometimes share apps instead of desktop programs? See that the first one you mentioned has a handheld version., so I’m gonna try that one.
I found your discovering things in real-time very amusing. Like, you use the app one way and now that you have a reason to explore, you're finding new things during your recording lol!
On the iPhone, you can set reminders for yourself and set them as daily reminders by making each needed reminder as occurring.
These resources sound really cool but most of them involve writing or words and me having a combination of ADHD and dyslexia memes it will seem like work to me. (I will still try and give some of them a go. Thank you for the video)
Mind mapping worked well in Product Development. Project Management training helped in planning multiple tasks happening concurrently.
3:44 second brain apps AKA muggle pensive!
AT LAST! Mind mapping instantly tripled my marks in essay writing in high school back in the 80s. I have been looking for a digital tool to do the same thing ever since! There was Pearl Trees once upon a time but some NT person changed it into a flow chart app and it no longer worked for me, and there’s a limit to how large a piece of paper or cardboard I can buy from the newsagent. 😅 So I will be checking this out when I go back to university.
Thank you for all you videos! You do so much while having adhd to help others. We appreciate you xx
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Of note before anyone else looks it up, Opal is iPhone exclusive, so probably not much use to anyone outside of America 🤷
(Edit: not a criticism of the video btw! If anything it's just frustrating that some cool toys are exclusive to some platforms seemingly at random 😅)
I hadn’t heard of any of these. Thanks!
Very helpful and caring. Thankyou for sharing. Felt personal and from the heart. Really warm and fuzzy. Thats the Jessica I love
It’s funny, the first thing that came to mind for me was mind mapping, but there are so many mind map apps that I couldn’t decide on one
Thank you for helping me accept and love myself more! Having adhd is exhausting at times 😪
Notebook+outdoors helps me a lot!
i have sumsama it is a game changer
I love Opal!
Okay; I give, secondary to low frustration tolerance and the inability to make it through a fourteen-minute video. Instead, I will eat a package of flour tortilla shells,
Wow, only up 40 seconds when I comment? I can be on time for something! 😜😁
Hi! Thank you! The more people who watch/comment right when a video launches, the more people the video gets recommended to ☺️
TY Jessica
Omg so great. Game changer for sure!
Great video, thank you!
I would swap out Sunsama and replace it with Amazing Marvin, which I think is pretty awesome and very ADHD friendly.
❤❤ I'm excited to check out some of these apps!! So glad I watched this! Thank you!
I'm so glad! Let us know what you think!
Thanks!
It's admittedly been too long since I've watched a video. However, I was totally unprepared for you not to say "Hello Brains!" lol
Oops 😅 Next time!
Thank you
Those sound like some interesting apps Jessica.
thanks
Time stamps please
How does xtiles compare to click up?
There is VERY much about ADHD in English. Most English I understand, I think, but I prefer apps (and videos like this) which has the opportunity to auto translate subtitles. 😒
Oops, not subtitles in apps, apps just in Dutch 🤭.
Hm, that was adhd / too fast, i think.
ANTEATER! 😂❤
I hope these apps are free
Yay
Are they free?
I appreciate you so much, but can you clean the case of your laptop? ^^
Yeahhh I did as SOON as I saw the footage 🤣 I had no idea it was dirty!
im quick
SO QUICK
Gentle reminder that none of these tools work if you are not emotionally regulated. So please use these as add ons after receiving help with your nervous system regulation.
Do you have an idea of being respectful teachers?
I’m not sure I understand the question. Can you tell me more?
@@HowtoADHD well every day I walk into my class there’s always someone that gets on my nerves and when a teacher joins in to stop it, I talk back and that’s a problem starts
@@Neiro1199 One trick I found helpful was to challenge myself. Like a game basically. Any time I went in somewhere and something immediately annoyed me I would start a stopwatch (I had an old sport watch) and I would see how long I could distract myself from it. Then I would try and beat my records.
I cannot make sense of Sunsana no matter how hard I try.
Focusing on dramas of any description does not serve you, and in fact brings them to you.
"Ombudsperson" Can't wait for Zach Snyder's 'Superperson versus Batperson part 2. with Wonderthey and AquaHe'
That laptop looks dirty.
Yup. It is. Didn’t realize until after the shoot 🤦♀️
…it’s clean now 🤣
@@HowtoADHD thanks for reminding me to clean my laptop!
@@HowtoADHD I never notice either. 😂
couldn't focus on this vid cuz of my ADHD smh