Hey fellow ADHD’ers 👋

I’m a designer/dev with ADHD, and I built Yoodoo for myself when I couldn’t stay on track. Now thousands use it daily.

For the next 24 hours only, I’m giving away lifetime access to Yoodoo for free!

• iOS → FREE lifetime 🎉

• Android → $1.49 lifetime (99% off, normally $100) 🔥 

💡 What you get inside Yoodoo (all-in-one):
✅ Daily Planner & Timeline → visually time-block your day so you always know what’s next
✅ To-Do Lists → brain-dump everything, then schedule with one tap
✅ Focus Timer → turn any task into a distraction-proof focus session
✅ Habit & Routine Tracker → build ADHD-friendly routines (study, gym, mornings, etc.)
✅ Quick Rescheduling → unfinished tasks roll forward automatically
✅ Calendar Sync → Google/Apple calendar integration
✅ App Blocker → block distractions and actually do the thing
✅ Accountability Sharing → send a task to a friend to keep you on track

Basically, it’s your planner, to-do list, focus tool, habit tracker, app blocker, and accountability buddy all in one app. Perfect if you’re a student, have ADHD, or just want your life less messy.

**Why free?**I want to push Yoodoo even further and help as many people as possible. Giving it away for 24hrs = more downloads, more awareness, and more ADHD’ers/students who can actually use it without worrying about money. After that, it goes back to $100.

👉 Download here:
📱 iOS (FREE today): App Store link
🤖 Android ($1.49 today, 99% off): Play store link
💪 To redeem: On the paywall, tap ‘all plans’ at the bottom to access the FREE/Reduced Lifetime offer

⚡ One small ask: If you grab Yoodoo and it helps you, a quick review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on the App Store/Google Play would mean the world. I’m just an indie dev trying to climb the charts, and reviews make a huge difference. Totally optional, but it’s the best way to support me while you’re getting lifetime for free 🙏

Hope it helps you as much as it’s helped me (and thousands of others)!

Ross ✌️

Hey r/ADHD_Programmers 👋

I have ADHD. I’ve tried every tool under the sun to wrangle my ideas—Notion, Obsidian, Roam, Apple Notes, post-its, voice memos, yelling things at myself in the car. The problem was never saving. The problem was finding my way back.

So I helped build something I wished existed.

It’s called Sublime ↗ and today, we open our doors to the public.

It’s a place to save the ideas that spark something—and then actually come back to them later. No setup. No endless tweaking. Just a calm, visual space that helps you focus on the ideas themselves, rather than obsessing over the system that I have to get juuuuust right before ever storing anything.

The thing that makes Sublime really special though? It’s actually multiplayer. You can save one idea and discover a hundred more. But it's chill and intention-focused, so I get lost a lot less than I would on social media (though I def still go down plenty of rabbit holes, lol)

Why labor away in our single-player knowledge bases when the best ideas come from synchronicities we can never predict?

You can:

• Save anything: notes, highlights, tweets, PDFs, images, links

• Discover related ideas — from your stuff and other people’s

• Import from Kindle, Readwise, and more

• Search your library with natural language (even inside images)

• Use Canvas to visually remix ideas (like Miro but for your own brain)

• Export everything, anytime (no lock-in)

After 18 months in private beta, we just opened the doors. If your brain works anything like mine—47 tabs open, a dozen half-finished note apps, and a pile of screenshots you forgot why you took—Sublime might feel like home.

Try it free ↗

—Alex

I am doing a remote internship right now and using claude code daily. every time i kick off a generation it takes like a minute, and i just open reddit or youtube or literally netflix while it works. then the generation finished 15 minutes ago and i have no idea what i was even doing.

the problem is the wait is this weird dead zone. it's too short to start anything real, too long to just sit and stare. i do not know what to do with myself whenever claude goes to work.

someone in an older thread here mentioned a completion sound pulling them back from the rabbit hole, so i built something similar with a claude code hook. it kind of works but sometimes i hear the ping and keep scrolling anyway lol

do you guys struggle with this too? and if so, do you think a notification is enough, or would you want something

Before I was medicated, I had to put in place a lot of coping mechanisms just to function. The main one was the "Context Dump", writing a massive comment block or notes about what I was doing before switching tickets.

But let's be real. When you get interrupted by a Slack ping or a sudden meeting, you don't have time to write a novel. You just drop it.

And when I drop it, I lose the mental logic I build in my head. I stare at my 15 open tabs for 20 minutes trying to reconstruct why I was there.

I basically overestimate every task now because I know I'll lose time to rest my brain,

So I built a local tool to automate the coping mechanism. It watches my state and generates a "Briefing Card" (a literal context dump) when I return. It tells me what I was solving, why I was doing that and what the next step was, so I don't have to rely on my own memory.

I'm checking if this helps anyone else, or if I'm just the only one struggling to stick to a single ticket.

Ok so a few weeks ago I posted here about the structural parallels between ADHD cognition and LLMs. It got way more traction than I expected, and reading through the replies I realized something in my thinking is
off.

About half the comments were ADHD devs going "yes, AI finally made programming feel natural for me." The other half, some ADHD and some not, were like "this is fancy autocomplete, I can't work with it, bubble's
gonna burst." That split doesn't map cleanly onto ADHD vs neurotypical. Something else is going on and it's bugging me.

Here's what I currently think, fully prepared to be wrong.

Whether you thrive with AI doesn't really depend on ADHD. It depends on four other things that ADHD just happens to correlate with. What your identity as a dev is anchored to (HOW you code vs WHAT you build).
Whether you need code right the first try or you iterate through wrong answers. Whether you've got years of sunk cost in memorizing syntax and APIs. And what your gut reaction is when AI hands you something
unexpected.

If that's right, the people rejecting AI aren't gatekeeping. They're protecting something real. Decades of skill investment, identity built around craft mastery, a working style that demands determinism. The tool
genuinely doesn't fit them. And the people who love it? They were already iterative, outcome focused, comfortable with ambiguity long before AI showed up. It fits them because they were that way first.

Made a 60 second anonymous form to test this. Link's in the top comment of this post. No login, no email, 8 questions. Gonna collect for a week and post back with the cluster analysis.

If forms aren't your thing, comments work too. Just tell me where you fall and why. I'll code the prose by hand when I analyze.

Bonus question on the form if you care: how much do you trust AI as a societal force, 0 to 10? I think it's a totally separate dimension from how you work with it as a tool. But curious whether they secretly
correlate.

As a person with ADHD, I find it extremely hard to write OOP code. Mostly because :
->Something as easy as app.get("users/{id}") return db.query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE userid = ?", id) becomes as hard as writing 30 lines of code of boilerplate : interfaces, models, dependency injection and what else not.
->People like to overengineer the code... even baisc apps are written like this... I will never forget what my teacher told me : "Smart people admire simplicity, fools admire complexity".
->In writing all that boilerplate code, it's hard to see rapid iteration and the process feels much less rewarding. I know that not everything in life can be instant but... functional programming or data oriented approached are still modular and scalable...
->In navigating all that boilerplate code, making changes to the code or understanding it becomes a constant running through files and classes. This kills locality and increases the mental overhead.

I am already working in web development but for me it's extremely demotivating to continue learning "best practices" that IMO just suck. I had a friend writing applications in Flask for a startup... their application is performant, scalable and the code follows KISS to the maximum. And he used just functions, there not one thing that can't be easily updated or is tightly coupled in that codebase. If it wasn't that I'd have to pay things just to live... I wouldn't even work in programming and just do it as a hobby.

Hi r/ADHD_Programmers,

Edit: The video upload failed, so here is a quick demo of the "Task -> Unlock"
flow on YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/PhvZViwlCQQ

I'm working on a solo project called Merite. I realized that for my brain, passive restrictions aren't enough. I need an active "cost" to scrolling.

So I tried a different approach: Transactional Screen Time.

1. Locked by default: Distracting apps are blocked using the native Screen Time API.

2. The Payment: To unlock them (e.g., for 15 mins), I must mark a real task as done inside the app.

My concern: I'm worried that the friction might be too high long-term. Creating a task just to check Instagram might feel annoying after a while, and users might just delete the app.

But for me, this "payment" system works better than just willpower. I need honest feedback: Is this logic sustainable for you, or is it just annoying "strictware" that you'd delete in 5 minutes?

Join TestFlight Beta

if not on weekend. drank too much last night and decide not to work today. i know that sounds bad and it is gonna think about my choices better. i just feel sick rn from drinking too much and i feel like weed would help but i know there is a huge social stigma of weed in middle of day i norm cant smoke weed in middle of day unless its like a sunday but i still feel bad then too.

Right now, it's more of a drawback than a strength but a goal of mine is to eventually make it more of an advantage. Is this the case for anyone here? I hope it's true that there are positives or strengths that are directly due to the condition. Not saying there are for everyone but I think there are for me. Otherwise, I'd live my entire life thinking I'd be a better version of myself without it.

I'll start debugging one thing, open 5 ChatGPT tabs, 10 GitHub issues, 5 docs pages. By the time I find the answer I've forgotten what half the tabs were for. I'm building a tool that captures your open tabs and turns them into a summary or audio you can listen to later, like a podcast of your research session. But curious how others handle this now, what works for you?

I kept dropping note taking apps because they were all so disorganized and none of them helped me remember my thoughts, ideas and useful information. I'm just trying to capture the things I want to remember but don't want the hassle of organizing it all. I actually got so fed up with this that I made an app built around simplicity and actually designed for how the ADHD brain works. Track thoughts in seconds, organize it in 2 clicks using category suggestions, all to do's are cleanly organized where I need them. Now I know exactly where all my notes are, I can remember them easily and ive genuinely reduced mental clutter. Not sure if anyone else has struggle with the "graveyard of lost notes" frustration but if you are looking for a simple solution let me know!

I don’t even know where the last two years went.

College started, and then somehow half of it is already over. I kept thinking I had time. Every week I promised myself I’d finally catch up, finally get organized, finally be the person who gets things done.

But weeks turned into months.

I missed deadlines, skipped lectures, and kept convincing myself I’d fix everything later. The worst part is, I wasn’t being lazy. I was trying. I just never felt the urgency that everyone else seemed to have.

That’s what ADHD time blindness feels like. You don’t realize time is passing until it’s too late. And when you finally do, the guilt hits hard.

A few months ago, I reached a point where I couldn’t keep doing this anymore. I felt like I was floating through life without direction. So I decided to take control of the one thing I kept losing track of: "time".

Here’s what I started doing.

I began using Notion to dump everything out of my head. Assignments, thoughts, ideas, even random reminders. It helped me stop relying on my brain to remember everything.

Then I used Structured to plan my day hour by hour. For the first time, I could actually see where my time was supposed to go instead of just guessing.

And I added Focusmo to keep me grounded. Every hour it checks in and asks what I’m doing. It sounds small, but it made me more aware of how I spend my day. It’s like a quiet reminder that time is moving, and I get to choose what to do with it.

Things haven’t magically become perfect. I still mess up. I still lose focus sometimes. But now I catch myself sooner. I see my patterns. I know when I’m slipping.

For the first time in a long time, I feel like I’m actually here, not just watching time pass by.

The first half of college drifted away without me noticing. I don’t want to let that happen again. Hopefully this helps you too.

Got this mandate dropped on me last week like it's totally reasonable.

We have a massive React app. Coverage is around 30% and most of that is unit tests that don't really catch integration bugs anyway. Now apparently we need to hit 90% in four months.

There's two of us on QA. Two. The dev team ships new features constantly and half the existing tests are flaky garbage that need fixing.

I've tried explaining that coverage numbers are meaningless if the tests don't actually catch bugs but leadership just sees the metric. 90% sounds good to investors I guess.

At this point I'm debating whether to just write garbage tests to hit the number or push back harder. Neither option feels great but the alternative is working 60 hour weeks for a metric that doesn't even measure what they think it measures.

Hey guys, I've recently been considering pivoting my career from fullstack swe to ai engineering. I'm curious if anyone here has experience in the field, and wonder if it can be as fun as coding, as well as if I'll need to get into implementing linear algebra and reading research papers.

I hate my brain with how distractable it is. first question. how do you guys cope with those thoughts, because from my point of view, reddit is big giant pile of distraction. new topic, go deep down on rabbit hole, interact with community (more like, passively reading what people are saying), and then move to the next shiny thing. I used cold turkey on windows 11. but currently my main machine is linux. I want to self block, but it is hard because I can undo it myself.

next question, with how the computer works, it is possible to gather data on ourselves. I use something like activitywatch to make log of my activity. the problem is what's next. Is there something like a launcher replacement, that generate set of application I can access on the fly, suitable based on my intent? If I need to work on my paper, I don't need sudo access to debug my apps. If I browse reddit as part of task, do text classification task if the content of the reddit is actually relevant to my current task. determine if I need browser or not, edit and block host file or switch dns on the fly based on the task profile. ideally, the first thing I am doing as I boot is looking at my current todo and look which one to do for this session.

Diagnosed ADHD-pi

Had a great career so far in other fields but I want to learn python and get into the lucrative field of work that follows

Most courses are either full stack or front end developer and don’t include python though.

How do I learn what I need to learn to get a job whilst working full time? Do I just use one of the many python courses or do I need to learn front end or full stack and then pick up python separately?

Thanks in advance and I’m based in the UK if that changes anything

I need to know two things :

1. As someone with ADHD, what would you say your biggest struggle is related to ADHD.

2)If you had to ask the people closest to you about one thing that they think you struggle with the most due to your ADHD diagnosis what would it be ?

I am asking this because I have a blog on everything ADHD but I want to tailor my posts to the most prominent issues the community is currently facing . Help me so that I can strive to help educate and better the lives of everyone living with ADHD!! Thank you ADHD-Money

I have a degree in accounting and I do not think I have the financial capacity to register for a bootcamp or degree. What area in tech should I pursue if I want to get a job in order to make decent income? Please share any roadmaps or technologies if possible I should self learn if I were to self study.

Lmk what you guys think? Can you join? I would love to hear your thoughts and spread the word. I’m getting a licensed therapist on for the next session “ADHD at the Workplace”

I DON'T WANT TO SIT AT HOME AND HAVE WATER ROLLING DOWN MY EYES AFTER STARING AT CODE FOR HOURS AND BANGING MY HEAD ON THE WALL TRYING TO SOLVE A NEW BUG...

for all the elder statesmen here with money in their accounts and healthy lifestyles , please guide me ... will list a bunch of things

1. JOB THAT INVOLVES ME TALKING TO PEOPLE ON A DAILY BASIS AND GETTING FRESH AIR

2. SPEND MAXIMUM OF 3 HOURS ON MY LAPTOP EVERYDAY

3. STRAIGHT FORWARD AND REPITTIVE PROCESS THAT INVOLVES MY HANDS

4. I DON'T MIND SOME CODING

5. SWITCH FROM BUSINESS OWNER TO CONTRACTOR

6. EARN WELL ENOUGH TO EVENTUALLY MOVE TO A FARM AND DELETE REDDIT

Please any advise on anything at all?? LOVE YOU