Realised today that "calendars/to-do-lists" used to be a really good thing in my life but that is no longer that case and I wonder if other ADHD brains have experienced this?

Pre-digital I always had lists of things that I needed to get done, and of course a fraction of things ever made it off the list BUT some things did and that was a win.

I feel now my to-do-list via calendar gets list inside tiny little boxes on a tiny little screen and I don't look at my calendar anyway it's rubbish. Thanks Google. I tried using a to-do-list in my note-taking system (UpNote) but again that is a deluge of information and I can barely focus attention on the most urgent note I'm working on and the to-do-list gets looked once every three months instead.

I am not doing any of this well, and that's making me unhappy.

Not saying it will cure my procrastination or lack of focus, but maybe someone else is doing this better and can share.

#ADHD

@ewen In my experience all of these tools and hacks have a best before date for me. They work for anytime from two weeks to years but nothing seems to last forever.

At the at work I use a todo.txt with sleek, works for me at the moment but might change anytime. And we as a family use a shared calendar with very strickt rules for what to put in and setting notifications.

@Zahlenzauberin

Thanks for that perspective. Definitely feel any life hack here is a temporary measure.

I find things like Google calendar are not visual enough, and they minimise each day into little boxes and my brain wants to ignore it.