ADHD reWired 409 | How to Choose Your Productivity Apps with Brittany Smith
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Prioritizing Principles over Apps
- Focus on how to succeed with any tool before choosing a specific app.
- Prioritize the principles of task management over specific app features.
Task Management Sucks
- Task management will always be somewhat challenging, especially with ADHD.
- Find a system that minimizes friction to make it "less bad" for your brain.
Avoiding Fiddly Apps
- Avoid apps that require too many steps for simple actions.
- If an app feels too disconnected or fiddly, it's likely a poor fit.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
How to Make Task Management Aps Suck Less
02:15 • 2min
Is There a Difference Between a Proversion and a Medial Operated Apis?
04:04 • 2min
Do I Need to Start With Omnifocus?
05:37 • 2min
Do You Have a Reminder on Your Task List?
07:44 • 2min
What's Your Personal Style?
09:58 • 2min
Task Management Aps - Is There a Perfect Ap?
11:39 • 3min
Short Cuts, Is It a Good Fit?
14:14 • 2min
Are You Getting Ready for Your Next Coaching Session?
16:17 • 5min
Turn Off Notifications on Your Phone
20:47 • 2min
Do Not Disturb
22:29 • 2min
Is There a Task Mater for iPhone?
24:10 • 2min
Is There a Difference Between a Task and a Project?
26:34 • 2min
Is There a Reminder in Google Tasks?
28:30 • 2min
Apple Watch - You Can Tag Certain Items in the Grocery List Cosco
30:35 • 1min
Idiot, I Have a Task on My Watch That I Don't Have to Push.
32:03 • 5min
The Capture Tool for Google Keep
36:48 • 2min
Is It a C P O?
38:58 • 2min
What's the Number One Rule? Knowledge Management System?
40:36 • 3min
Working With a Check List
43:16 • 3min
Myro Miroye, Muro Myssang
46:01 • 2min
Payit Is the Wave of the Future, Right?
48:13 • 2min
Do You Need a Complex System?
50:13 • 3min
Omnifocus - What's the Difference?
52:46 • 2min
How to Subscribe to D H D Wir Podcast
54:32 • 5min
Have you tried using all sorts of to-do and task-management apps but haven't found 'the one' yet? In this episode, Eric is joined by Brittany Smith, a productivity, ADHD, and technology coach and recently published her first course, "From Aggravated to Navigated: Choosing a task-management system with ADHD". She has a Masters of Science degree in Cognitive Neuroscience lab at the University of Oregon. Brittany uses geeky pop-culture and cognitive science to help her clients and ADHD Guild members get more done with less stress. Connect with Brittany:
In this Episode:
- How do you do things so that you will be successful no matter which tool you choose?
- With task-management apps, how do we make these things suck less? How do we choose what task-management app to use?
- How do we make task-management apps a "less bad" fit for our brains so we make sure we know what we need to do?
- Mentioned: Task Management Software Built For Pros - OmniFocus - The Omni Group (Mac/iOS only)
- What's your personal style?
- What should we be looking at if we are stuck in task-management-app "hopping"?
- What is a great app for automating?
- Mentioned: Todoist
- Mentioned: Google Keep
- Mentioned: TaskPaper (Mac/iOS only)
- Mentioned: Drafts (Mac/iOS only)
- Mentioned: Notion
- Mentioned: Trello
- Mentioned: Miro
- Mentioned: MindNode
Honorable Mentions:
- Listen to Brittany as a guest on ADHD Essentials with Brendan Mahan!
- Asana
- What is GTD - Getting Things Done®
- Did you know: There are built in tasks if you use Google Assistant. (The same principle applies to the Echo!)
- Obsidian
- Evernote
- SimpleMind
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- adhdfriendlylifestyle.com with Moira Maybin
- coming soon - Wait, What Was the Question? with Will Curb and Coach Roxie Martin! Reach out to Will and Roxie at questions@whatwasthequestionpodcast.com