Tracy’s Top 12 Can’t Live Without, ADHD Resources

Tracy talks about the Best of ADHD Resources in her Podcast, Episode #172.

1. The Bear App

Bear is the best application if you struggle to remember what digital file you put a document, photo or even recorded an audioclip in. With the Bear app you don't organize anything into files. You just start typing, or use voice to text and then when you need to find it later, you search using whatever words make sense. This is so brilliant for our ADHD brains that might forget which of three files we may have uploaded our document to. Bear also syncs with my Macbook, iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. Beyond all that, it's a simple, clean, uncluttered application that makes my brain happy.

2. The Apple Watch

Apple Watch is a wearable smartwatch that allows users to accomplish a variety of tasks, including making phone calls, sending text messages and reading email.

This is my favorite piece of tech for the ADHD brain. I've tried all of the watch faces. I swear by the Modular face. Apps on the Apple Watch are called Complications. You can have too many Complications. Choose the apps you will use most for your watch face.

3. Multiple Desktops

Multiple desktops are great for keeping unrelated, ongoing projects organized—or for quickly switching desktops before a meeting.

You know what your desktop is on your computer, right? It’s the first screen you save to it, so if you’re anything like me it gets pretty crowded and messy. And often I’m working in an application or creating a document in Google Docs or I’m on the web and suddenly I can’t find my file, document, web page, whatever because I usually have so much crap open that’s all on top of each other and I’m scared to close these windows because then I’m going to forget that I need to buy that thing on Amazon or read that article. You get me, right?

4. Tab Resize and a Second Computer Screen

This is a chrome app that splits your screen into various layouts. Most of the time I just use it to split my screen down the middle so that I can for example use the left side to search google while writing in a google doc. When I’m creating my newsletter I sometimes split my screen in quadrants, so four separate screens.

5. Superhuman

Superhuman is an email app that promises to be the fastest email experience ever made.

They call this designer email. It’s not cheap. $30 a month but I am finally at inbox zero every damn week. I may not be there during the week but I’m always there by the end of the week.

It allows me to remind myself to respond and check to see if the person has responded. I hit command + K and then tell it to ping or boomerang that email back to me at a certain date or time. This is why I’m an inbox zero. I feel like I have so much more control over my email inbox.

6. reMarkable Tablet

The reMarkable paper tablet - a digital device for writing, reading & sketching that feels like paper.

I use the reMarkable tablet for all my notes. I still use post-it notes but if I’m writing anything of substance like taking notes in a meeting, creating an outline of something I’m writing, drawing a doodle to remember something it is on my ReMarkable tablet. I have a bit of a love - hate relationship with the reMarkable. I was ready to return it for the first month. It’s expensive. I think I spent $700 for the tablet, pencil and cover. This is why I decided that it’s on my list of favorite ADHD resources. I used to have notebooks, sheets of paper with handwriting everywhere, and I couldn’t find anything. Now everything is in one place, in my reMarkable.

7. Quicky Sticky App

Quicky Sticky App is an iphone application that create a sticky note reminder for your home screen with one tap. No images or settings required.

One of my issues is that I would be somewhere, or I’d be working out and I’d have this thought of something I needed to take care of or I needed to buy. I just wanted to find a way to remind myself that would be front and center. I wasn’t in front of my computer with a pen and a post it note. I would send an audioclip to Bear but then I’d have to remember to go to Bear. I would send messages to myself using email or I’d text myself but again, I’d have to remember to check my emails and my texts which I often would forget.

8. Kindle

Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store.

This is my absolute favorite of the year so far. The only reason it’s not higher is because it’s about one thing and one thing only, I am reading SO much because of it. I started using not even two months ago and I’ve read 5 books completely and another 3 are almost done. I pretty much only read nonfiction that is business related so almost exclusively about mental health.

9. Readwise

Readwise helps thousands of readers get the most out of their digital highlights.

I also connected my kindle to an app called readwise because one of my complaints about reading is I felt like I read the book and then forgot about what I learned.

You can set Readwise up to pull your highlights from the various books you’ve read and then send you your highlights randomly via email. I’ve set it up where it sends me an email in the morning and in the late afternoon. Because I’m constantly refreshing my knowledge with books that I read several weeks ago by reviewing the highlights, I’m better remembering what I learned.

10. Plackers

Plackers are portable, one-handed dental flossers that you can take with you for easy, on-the-go use after snacks or meals. I just talked about Plackers last week in my podcast that was all about dental health - so teethgrinding, bruxism, TMJD, crowns and root canals. If you struggle with flossing, these are a god send. They are these individual plastic pick like things that have a little piece of floss at the end. The way they’re shaped makes flossing so easy. There’s no prep so no resistance.

11. Downy Wrinkle Releaser

Downy Wrinkle Releaser is a spray that smoothes out wrinkles. I swear it works. I rarely if ever iron anything anymore. I just spray the garment and then smooth it out with my hand and the wrinkles magically disappear. Now, if you wear linen and you’re used to a starched perfectly flat ironed look this is not going to do it but anything short of that, this totally works.

12. Kajabi

The final thing, I want to tell you about, is for you entrepreneurs, a lot of us have online businesses and this application literally turned my business life around. If you are not entrepreneurial. If you don’t run an online business you can stop the podcast right here.

Kajabi is an all-in-one business platform for knowledge entrepreneurs. Kajabi makes it easy to build, market and sell your online courses, membership sites, coaching program and more. Best of all, you won't need to learn code or have to worry about plugins or broken integrations.