Donnie!!!!!

my current hill I'm dying in is that for anyone but especially people with ADHD, it's completely fine and encouraged to use multiple to do apps, planners, systems, etc and to rotate them as needed because the novelty of trying something again/something new makes you more likely to use it than beating yourself up about not being able to stick to one system for a long time.

today I set up a combination of ToDoist* and goblin.tools. the latter has an export to todoist function that I haven't quite figured out yet but in any case goblin.tools helps with task analysis and todoist is helping me get them done. will this last more than a week? I dunno! but when it does lose it's spark, I'll happily move on to whatever next I wanna try.

• ToDoist is a little off-putting with it's corpo productivity speak, and I'm not paying for pro or planning on using it alongside anyone in a Team function but it seems nice for its reminders and calendar and task system and you can group tasks into projects or by label categories which is nice.

Because of the aforementioned ADHD, I'm currently reading 4 different ADHD self-help books and since I'm like equally 3 chapters into each of them I figured I'd plug them in case anyone else is looking for reading material. They all vary in terms of usefulness (some are a little outdated), and general topic, but pretty much all of them revolve around streamlining and organizing your life in a way that is conducive to an ADHD brain, not a neurotypical one. And they're all geared towards an Adult ADHD audience, with occasional bits about children/parenting but are mostly for adults. Again I haven't finished any of these, especially since I'm taking notes while reading them so it's slow going, so apologies if in the last chapter any of them get super weird or something. I doubt it though.
Oh and I threw a rec for an essay anthology about broadly speaking disabilities, since I'm also currently reading it and want to just leave a note about it here too. This citation style isn't anything specific but its how I write my list of books I'm reading so deal with it.

• You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo. 1993. ISBN 0-684-80116-7
• ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadea, Ph. D. 2002. ISBN 1-58391-358-0
• Disability Visibility: twenty-first century disabled voices edited by Alice Wong. 2020. ISBN 9781984899422
• Organizing Solutions For People With ADHD (3rd Edition) by Susan C. Pinsky. 2023. ISBN 978-0760381625
• Driven to Distraction by Edward M Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D.. 1994. ISBN 0-684-80128-0

today's a "every big task needs broken down for me and every task needs incentive" kind of day. so my 4 goals broke down into 4 smaller goals each and whenever I get all 4 in a category done I get to use a fun lion stamp in the big box to check them off
finally using these fun stamps I made for myself to get me to use planners more lol

sharing my pomodoro Spotify playlist V2 this one doesn't have the 5 minutes of silence every 5 or so songs because it was messing up my Al Gore Rhythm but when I hear a Minecraft song it's my cue to take a break, and I suggest this for anyone else! Make a playlist of songs you like them have instrumentals or some other artist or genre every 4 or so songs that will cue you that it's break time. Usually I just use the 3 or so minutes of the song as a break to stretch, drink water, do a 20/20/20 vision check or something but I can just pause the playlist or put the break song on a loop if I need more time. Added bonus you can snoop my music taste on that playlist.