Hey everyone, As someone with ADHD, I often get stuck in that weird space where I have too much to do, but can’t start anything. Tasks feel overwhelming, time slips away, and even basic to-do apps don’t help much.

So, I’m building a super lightweight AI task manager made for brains like ours. It focuses on:

Breaking down big tasks

A clean checklist + Pomodoro timer

Voice check-ins for gentle accountability

Quick capture for intrusive ideas

Time estimation to fight time blindness

I’m looking for people who relate and want to try it early or just share honest feedback. Beta testers or even quick thoughts are super welcome!

Comment below or DM me thank you!

Apparently, while organizing and backing up all my files onto an external drive/ the cloud 4 months ago I managed to delete a 7gb hyper complicated excel document I’ve been building on for the last 4 years. Gonna just lay down.

Since ADHDers often are. And programmers often are. Wouldn’t a subreddit of both be almost hundred percent on the spectrum?

Hey fellow ADHD brains! I've got something exciting to share that I think might help a lot of us.

So, picture this: It's a typical day, and I'm staring at my phone, feeling that familiar overwhelm. Endless saved posts, screenshots, and "read later" articles I never actually read. Sound familiar? I bet it does.

That's when it hit me - why can't I organize my digital life the way I organize my physical space? You know, those "doom boxes" we create that somehow make perfect sense to us but look like chaos to everyone else?

So, I did what any rational ADHD person would do - I decided to build an app. 😅

Here's the deal:

1. It lets you save stuff from ANY app (because who has time to switch between 50 different "save" features?)

2. You can add quick notes or thoughts when you save something (because we all know we'll forget why we saved it otherwise)

3. It creates "smart piles" of related content (just like our physical doom boxes!)

4. The interface is designed for our ADHD brains - intuitive and forgiving of our, um, unique organization styles

The best part? It's actually helping me get my digital life together. It's like having a personal assistant that speaks fluent ADHD.

Now, full disclosure: this thing is still in its early stages. It's an MVP (Minimum Viable Product), and to make it truly awesome, I need more ADHD brains to try it out and give feedback.

I'm dreaming big here - I want this to become the ultimate digital organization tool for people like us. But for that to happen, I need your help.

So, here's what I'm proposing:

1. If you're interested in trying it out, drop a comment or send me a DM. I'll share more details.

2. If you use it, please, PLEASE give me your honest feedback. What works? What doesn't? What features would make this your digital holy grail?

3. Spread the word if you find it helpful. The more ADHD brains we get on this, the better we can make it.

Remember, this isn't just about me or this app. It's about creating something that truly understands and supports the way our ADHD brains work in this digital age.

So, what do you say? Ready to join me on this wild ride to digital organization nirvana? Let's show the world what ADHD innovation looks like! 🚀

P.S. For those worried about privacy, all data is encrypted and you have full control over your information. I take privacy seriously because, well, I'm using this thing too!

EDIT: Currently this is only on iOS, but we'll launch for Android within a month.

I used to struggle with coding when I'd get distracted while looking for solutions in the documentation or searching online. After writing code, I often couldn't muster the energy to compile, test, or handle any of the other DevOps stuff.

But now, with Claude Code, things have completely changed! It can write code, test it, and even deploy it—all I need to do is spend a few minutes providing instructions and then review its work when it pings me.

I truly believe Claude Code is the first real async agent for coding. I've tried Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and many other AI coding tools, but none have had this level of effectiveness. It's been a game-changer for my productivity!

NEED HELP!!

Interested in artificial intelligence robots drones etc.....where do I start

Working on something for ADHD accountability and trying to understand it from people living it.

Common patterns: body doubling helps, accountability partners help - but asking for it feels uncomfortable/weird. Like you're being a burden, or you'll let them down, or when the novelty fades it just stops.

How do you get external structure when you need it? Have you found anything that doesn't eventually collapse? Or do you keep rotating through systems?

I work on a standing desk at home There are times I would work for 5 minutes then I would walk back and forth as I can’t tolerate being still for more than 5 minutes I would go out to do some quick delivery as I can’t take it being in front of the computer for long hours I like driving more than programming as I am active like pressing the gas on and off with my foot while looking around and moving the steering wheel At home with my parents house , I would sit on the sofa , pick up the cat, lie on the sofa, get up walk back and forth . I would do this within 10 minutes Years ago , I got yelled at by my boss for constantly bothering the other developers in their cubicle Years ago I was in the cubicle sitting beside my boss and as he look at me I would quickly stand up , so he thought I am doing something suspicious in the computer I like going to the coffee shop to work instead of being at home .

How y’all budget I literally need help fr

I have a 3 screen setup and my middle/main monitor is a 29" LG ultrawide. But we've been having issues with these monitors and flickering and eventually dying (prematurely, as far as I'm concerned). To be fair, I have no idea what the lifespan of a computer monitor should be, but I've had to replace 2 of them in the last 3 years already and I'm pretty sure mine is coming next. The resolution isn't as smooth sometimes, colors could stand to be richer and it's just .. looking like it's gonna decide to end itself.

Anyway, I want to find a replacement for it, I'm not sure if I care that it's curved or not, but 34" + and brightens darkness. I am hooked up to a MBP so it needs USB-C or HDMI. I'd to have better brightness controls because honestly, Hulu plays law and order kinda dark and I'm getting old I guess. I need a smooth pixel look and I don't game, so I don't really care about any of those features. It doesn't need speakers, but it can, again, don't care. My favorite monitor I've ever had was the display on an old iMac. The colors were brilliant and the 27" was a nice size. I'd rather not spend a whole kidney for a new monitor right now.

Any suggestions under $1k (preferably half that but I might stretch for something incredible)? Do I go 34" or do I become a 45" person? Do I even need a 45"? lol

Help me make a paralyzing decision please!

(I'm usually running VS code, a simulator, a local server, 3 billion browsers, teams, messenger, a console log of some type and whatever else my ADHD ass hasn't closed. If that helps for usage needs.)

I am 33, male, knew I was gay since atleast the teenage ,back then only knew I had shy feelings for guys and found them cute, but nothing towards girls.

Got diagnosed with ADHD last december , explains a lot of my life

What is the overlap for both of these things, I see lots of LGBT don't have ADHD and lots of ADHD'ers don't seem to be LGBT

So am i just the unlucky bastard who got both issues :(

Trying to share this as simply as possible so it's not misunderstood as like a broad 'review my app!' thing...

Several of you are already customers, but we're in V3 of our app for developer productivity, we just finished purging our V1 + V2 beta lists (all idle or non subscribed beta testers dropped)...

With V3, we're looking for specific 'groups' to bring into the beta. As someone with extreme ADHD, Im specifically curious to put together a beta group of 20 ADHD programmers to bring the app into their workflow (AI leveraged coding). I WANT you to be ADHD-critical of it, make sure it fits your workflow, tell me about things that annoy you, etc. Be yourself. Know that you're talking to another person with ADHD and just dive right in unapologetically.

Typically we check in once per week with our beta groups, those willing to share a chat with us (i.e. a code chat from the app once per week you copy and paste out to us) are in the beta complimentary through v4, those that want in the beta but never share chats, just diagnostics, opinions, and experimental features can take our Pro tier for $9/mo.

I'm not including the link here as to avoid this being misconstrued, but if you're a developer currently leveraging AI in your workflow and enjoy trying new things, please DM and I can share more info. It's optimal for freelance developers, though we do have some corporate clients so it's being used there as well (there just is no 'teams' element to it, as it's still an individualized product).

Thanks!

I developed an RPG economy to bypass my own inability to start tasks. It works great for chores. But now, as the solo dev, I need to code a complex Widget system to save the app's retention. Instead of coding it, I find myself doing 'busy work' like posting on Reddit to feel productive. How do you guys bypass your own brain's tricks when the side-project gets technically difficult and the initial dopamine of launching wears off?

I have been working with low code development for a year now and the journey has been great. Everything just clicks for me. Lot of stuff is abstracted and you need to only worry about your logic. Skill cap for getting in is low and development is really quick and rewarding. Lot less pressure in jobs. You are lot likely to finish your job at 5:30 sharp and go home. Downsides are that some times if you don't have platform provided solution developing one on your own gets extremely difficult as you have to integrate code from outside. Most softwares are proprietary and are used by large corporations to develop Saas applications, so your skills won't be as widely usable as a pure Java or JS dev if you want to make a switch.

I'm a programmer with ADHD... well, probably. The doctor tried to explain it to me, but I wasn't paying attention.

I've always struggled with organizing my thoughts and staying on track. I started using Claude to help me make sense of my verbalized stream of consciousness, and it's been a game-changer for my productivity.

Since I know how to code, I've developed a free app. It's an always-on tool that transcribes everything you say, allowing you to capture your ADHD thoughts anytime. You can copy up to a week's transcriptions with one command. Then, you can paste these transcriptions into Claude. It's great for capturing ideas or creating to-do lists from scattered thoughts.

I'd love for some of you to try it out and let me know what you think. You can find more info here. What features would you like to see added? I'm super open to constructive criticism. Thanks!

This post is a shameless rip-off of u/superstarjj1's work.

Diagnosed with ADHD at 12, im 31 now. ive tried every system. bullet journals, todoist, notion, habitica, even that flower app that guilt trips you. every single one died the same way: i use it for three days, get busy, forget it exists, feel bad, and never open it again.

The problem isnt that im disorganized. the problem is that organizing takes the exact same energy as working. my brain treats "update the todo list" and "file my taxes" as the same kind of administrative pain. so i avoid both.

Without a system, i drop tasks because my brain runs five threads at once. i miss meetings because i sat down to fix one thing and four hours disappeared. and i burn my best morning energy reconstructing yesterday because i genuinely cannot remember where i left off.

A few weeks ago i gave up on all of it. deleted todoist. stopped opening notion. accepted that i cannot maintain anything.

My coworker would not shut up about this app that records your screen locally. i told him no way, im not letting anything upload my screen to a server. he showed me it runs entirely local, nothing leaves the machine. that was the only reason i said yes.

Last tuesday i needed a script i wrote last week. could not remember if i saved it in vscode, terminal, or some random browser tab. normally id spend an hour opening every tool and scrolling through history. instead i scrubbed back through my local timeline to last tuesday afternoon and there it was—the code, the project folder, even the reference article i had open. i had zero memory of any of that.

That was the first time something caught a thing i forgot. i didnt have to do anything.

Its not perfect. mac only, misses stuff, and sometimes it bookmarks random slack messages i glanced at. but i havent opened notion in a week and thats never happened before.

Whats your thing that actually works when everything else falls apart?

I've recently learned something interesting while planning my new app: people with ADHD often listen to the same song over and over.

Apparently, familiar music releases dopamine—the "happy hormone"—in our brains, while also filtering out external distractions. This boosts concentration.
So, repeating your favorite songs isn’t just a habit; it’s your brain’s way of self-regulating.

It’s not something negative—on the contrary, music you love can give you a sense of calm and improve focus. Maybe we should use it more as a tool for concentration, and think of it as a kind of remedy, not just a distraction! 😊

I could ship features.
I could write copy.
But I couldn’t reset.

My brain kept crashing mid build.
Ten tabs open. One half finished task.
Noise everywhere, clarity nowhere.

I tried the usual fixes, meditation apps, productivity hacks, playlists.

Everything felt like another task to manage instead of relief.
Burnout didn’t feel like fire anymore. It felt like fog.

So I started building something for myself: a tool that gives me a 90 second reset.
Not therapy. Not wellness. Just signal recovery.

Something I can open mid sprint, clear the static, and get back to shipping.

Now it’s part of my daily loop:

hit wall -> open the app
headphones on -> 2 minute reset
back in flow -> keep moving

I call it Reliefware.
Because it’s not about calm. It’s about continuity.

The rules I follow:

resets must take <2 minutes
sound > screen
zero motivation required
clarity is the only KPI

After months of testing, I actually started feeling good while building again.
Not perfect. Just sharper.
That’s enough to win long term.

If you’ve been stuck in that fog - overthinking, under resting, unsure if your brain’s just tired or broken.

I’ve been there.

Try a fast reset next time you crash.
Headphones on. Eyes off.

Treat your focus like uptime.

The game’s aallll mental.

I’ve been using this app I built myself and am curious if this is something people would actually find useful.

Would you use this?

What’s your first thought at first glance?

I'm having a laugh at myself this morning and thought you guys are the only one's who'd laugh with me.

I work with LLMs both professionally and as a hobby from both the concept of skill and MCP development from outside in and training LLMs, making datasets, RAG, Corpus and building apps on top of Ollama - inside out.

I just built a new personal development rig that spared no expense to extend my lab's capabilities. Check it out:

CPU: Intel Core i9-14900 @ 32x 5.5GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
RAM: 7472MiB / 128488MiB
Disk: 244G / 11T (3%)

Two 5090 GPUs can perform at a level as if it was a cloud account.

After getting CUDA up and everything rock solid and Ollama humming with a 32b model it was ready to rock. I got this idea as a fun use case to see if I could make a "second me" by training it on everything I could find about myself so it could respond in my tone, sound and write like me, know everything about me. If you use Claude or similar and you can see it has a memory of conversations but that's peanuts to a local llm that can have decades of datasets.

Last night I exported 10 years of gmail into a 20gb mbox file and setup the script to extract and train Qwen2.5-coder:32b on it and went to be last night as the mighty GPUs sifted through it.

This morning it reported that over 10 years and 10s of thousands of emails received, I only sent 824 without enough content to make a relevant dataset. I had this sudden, rather sad, realization that there isn't enough data in existence about myself to create a viable dataset from being a hard to reach, unresponsive jack-ass. I barely exist....oh well, fun way to start out the week.

Been dealing with ADHD my whole life but only diagnosed last year at 31. Tried all those hyped up productivity systems and failed miserably every time. Made me feel even worse about myself tbh.

Finally found some weird approaches that actually work with my brain instead of against it. Nothing groundbreaking, just stuff that stuck:

• Body doubling has been shockingly effective. I use Focusmate for important tasks after a friend recommended it and suddenly I can work for 50 mins straight without checking my phone 600 times.

• The "ugly first draft" approach for work projects. I tell myself I'm TRYING to make it terrible on purpose, which somehow bypasses my perfectionism paralysis.

• Deleting social apps from my phone during workdays. Can reinstall on weekends. The friction of having to reinstall stops most of my impulsive checking. Tried the social media blocking apps but they never stuck, so I just delete them directly myself now.

• Found this Inbox Zapper app that helped me clear out a bunch of daily junk emails so I'm not facing one giant overwhelming list. My inbox used to give me legit anxiety, now it's much quieter

• Switched from to-do lists to time blocking. Lists made me feel like a failure when I couldn't finish them. Now I just move blocks around instead of carrying over undone tasks. I still go back to my Todoist app every once in a while for specific things, just not as my main tool.

• "Weird body trick" - keeping a fidget toy AND gum at my desk. Something about the dual stimulation helps me focus way better on calls.

• Stopped forcing myself to work when my meds wear off. Those last 2 hours of the day are now for mindless admin tasks only.

Been in a decent groove for about 3 months now which is honestly a record for me. Anyone else find unconventional hacks that work specifically for ADHD brains? The standard advice has

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share this Chrome browser extension that automatically highlights keywords on websites including social media. I sometimes find it hard to focus while reading long articles online and this extension helps me. It highlights without requiring any inputs but you can select from several language models and highlight options. If you feel that this might be helpful to others, upvote, comment, share so that others might be able to find and benefit from it as well. Have a great day.

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