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What LISTS should most ADHD folks keep? (lemmy.world)
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  • Lost items to find
  • Tasks
  • Devices to Charge
  • Shopping
  • Appointments
  • Birthdates (for social harmony)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

As many as you can handle, which may be one or none some days or weeks.

What I do recommend is having a context for all your lists, a lists of lists that connects these fearsome beasts into a shape that can be comprehended by an adhd/executive challenged brain, a tree formed from branches all held up by a central trunk (your list of your lists)!

Actually I think of it not as a tree anymore but rather the inverse movement, a river network of converging frivolous lists of small things joining together as tributaries to form a unified flow that combines all into itself in terms of daily executive function challenges.

A concrete example of this idea in digital form is org mode (which this perspective is inspired from).

https://orgmode.org/guide/index.html

Also Treesheets is a nice simple conceptualization

https://strlen.com/treesheets/

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ok but still what are some more modular/limited lists like I've provided? What specific ones do you think are missing from my list of lists?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    For me it basically breaks down to

    • life

    ** social

    *** gifts

    *** birthdays

    *** social event journal to remember past events

    ** tasks

    *** repetitive weekly chore list

    *** priority life tasks

    *** housework/yardwork & maintenance

    *** hobbies & whatever else

    ** meta stuff about the system (where this list of lists would be written down in an analog system as a map)

    ** daily scratchpad list archive

    ** today's scratchpad list

    Every day I use the system I create a scratchpad list. I move the previous sessions scratchpad list to the archive (or delete it) ripping out the pieces I want to keep and inserting them into the relevant permanent list.

    I am describing a system I implement digitally but a simple version could be done with some notebooks and a pocketable small post it note pad for "today's scratchpad list". This system assumes you are using a seperate calendar or integrated date stamps for list items so they can be displayed in a calendar view.

    Not claiming it's original but this is the perspective that makes other more complex and fleshed out systems make sense to me as I can translate how that particular system maps to this abstracted recipe.

    In a fully built out task tracking and thinking system the **tasks subheading is more of note system with tasks sprinkled throughout that a collating mechanism creates a list of just actionable TODOs tasks from.

    How do I sort out just an actionable task list? With org mode tasks have a flag and are retrieved into a list of just actionable tasks by a basic software function, but there are ways you could translate this too into an analog equivalent with bookmarks in your task notebooks marking active TODO tasks.

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