Falling in Love with your Productivity Tech with Brittany Smith

This week, Brittany Smith joins us to talk about technology and how it fuels productivity. We talk about battling the fear that comes from new tech tools, the overwhelm from that feeling of too much technology, and how you can actually find the spark of motivation hiding in an examination of the things that de-motivate you about your tools the most!

Brittany Smith is an ADHD, Productivity, and Technology coach in Portland, Oregon. She has her MS in Cognitive Neuroscience and uses the latest tools and her love of technology to help her clients get more done, with less stress.

This week, Brittany joins us to talk about technology and how it fuels productivity. We talk about battling the fear that comes from new tech tools, the overwhelm from that feeling of too much technology, and how you can actually find the spark of motivation hiding in an examination of the things that de-motivate you about your tools the most!

Links & Notes

• Brittany Smith at Devise & Conquer Consulting
• Obsidian: A second brain, for you, forever
• DevonThink from DevonTechnologies
• Data Privacy Day at Apple: Improving Transparency and Empowering Users
• What is App Tracking Transparency and how do you block app tracking?
• Apple Shortcuts User Guide

• (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
• (02:07) - Support The Show • Become a Patron!
• (03:30) - Introducing Brittany Smith
• (07:21) - Falling in Love...
• (18:29) - Friction
• (19:56) - Finding Motivation through Technology
• (22:12) - Automating Brittany with Shortcuts
• (24:51) - Brittany's Planning Process
• (27:19) - Information Management
• (33:05) - Less is More
• (34:38) - Automation
• (40:37) - What have you given up? What are you most excited about?

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