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For the unmedicated: Dynamic Pomodoro method (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/adhd@lemmy.world
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If you struggle to be productive due to your workflow being too unstructured, allowing you to get distracted too easily, this is one way I have found structure your time:

  • In essence, you switch from centering your attention around the task to centering it around a timer.

  • You start at a timer. You plan what your next step will be (baby steps), and write it down. You allocate yourself time to do that task. Repeat.

  • The one sentence goal statement is crucial because it reminds you what you are supposed to be doing during the timer if you get sidetracked.

  • If the timer runs out before you finish, that's fine, but you are obliged to come back to the drawing board and re-write the goal statement.

  • Snoozing the timer is a bad habit.

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I don't use a timer but I do write logs, and use those logs centrally to my work. Anytime I get distracted, my first reflex is to go look back at what I wrote down to be doing, often indeed in one sentence (enough to jog my memory, but more if some links are important for instance)

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