As I’m digging more into these ideas and finding success with managing the — 200-plus! — projects on my radar, I’m realizing that tools for organizing created by and for people without #ADHD will never really be able to work for me
I can now succinctly describe why:
For the ADHD brain, a project is anything with multiple steps that requires sustained attention over time
@mattly I feel like spending decades forcing myself to be productive on teams using NT project management and communication software has significantly contributed to my burnout.
@alastair I’m still figuring out something that works for me but the gist of it:
- honor the fact that you probably have a lot more ideas and things you want to keep track of / do than you will be able to complete, and yet that you are not willing to let go of - capture, capture, capture - find a way to have a high-level overview of _everything_ for me this looks like grouping projects into “areas of interest”, prioritizing within those, and then juggling the AoIs
@alastair it’s not that I need project management tools for more things, it’s that the project management tools created by/for neurotypicals are built around assumptions that don’t apply to me or my needs and therefore inadequate