Hey all,
Last year I was diagnosed with ADHD, and while I’ve been making a habit of keeping medicated, I still find myself at times getting too distracted to keep me from getting important stuff done. The most infuriating thing I’m currently dealing with is my troubles in creating a consistent sleep schedule, where I have a sleep schedule that works set out, but find myself getting too distracted and staying up unreasonably late as a result.
Unfortunately I had to swap to Windows recently, so looking for suggestions that can run on Windows 10. The harder to ignore, the better. Thanks in advance!
I’m in a similar spot. For me MacroDroid app on my phone is key.
Someone helped me write an alarm macro that I cancel by scanning an NFC tag I have in my medication case.I also have an NFC tag on my refrigerator that I have to scan to stop my wake up alarm.
I can share the macro if you are interested
I know everyone is anti-Microsoft here, but if you’re on Windows, Outlook was designed to do exact that. You can put reminders on a calendar. Or you can set tasks with reminder dates. Or you can flag an email with a follow up reminder.
For my sleep schedule it helped a ton to put an online restriction into my router - my mobile devices and computer can’t connect to the internet between 2300 through 0500.
A task manager, that creates new tasks on a schedule and reminds you of overdue tasks.
You will build up behavior of checking off task items when you do the task, and this will help you build structure and executive function.
Most of them have this functionality, so if you have a task manager you use at work, just set it up for your home. (jira, process st, etc)
Might I suggest a calender app?
For me, the calendar app isn’t good enough. It is too easy to hide or miss or ignore the notification, no matter what settings I adjust (which dont typically give much flexibility)
Do something that makes your brain tired an hour before needing to sleep, I read the less light stuff and it works, theres always more stuff on the computer, outside of forcing it turn off and the inconvienence of turning it back on idk, most alerts telling me to sleep or stop make me more awake and into what im doing personally lol, a straight up crash or shutdown puts me to sleep, if you have a set sleep time you can always ask ai to make you a .bat file to auto shutoff your pc at that time, or have one that auto shutsoff in x minutes and set x to whatever you feel like that day.
I’ve found playing solitaire on my phone is just the right amount of stimulation to keep me engaged, but repetitive enough to put me to sleep after maybe 2 or 3 deals, at most. Often it’s only half way through a single hand.
