NotePlan have slowly become my go to daily planning tool.

It isn’t perfect, but works in a weird way.

I use all of the different dated sections in it. But the main thing for me is the daily one.

A big part of being able to hold my ADHD life together is a combination of checklists and time blocking. So everything is basically blocked off in a structure I move and adjust as the day goes on.

It is to a huge extent driven my templates etc to make it easy to set up. I’ll typically do the main setup job the weekend before for the entire week, add all the large stuff the night before, and do more detailed plans for every 3 hours.

At the moment the time here is 08:49, so I’ll plan until noon when I’m done with this blog.

The structure for me is typically a root task that is the time block, and then either sub-tasks or checklists (usually a combination of both) under it. With some emoji to show me the category. And I love using that “move completed to the bottom” feature to keep things neat.

For me time blocking is great for having realistic plans and keeping focus.

The way my mind works everything become this slow progress where I try to move all the stuff I care about or have decided to work on a forward each week.

Instead of my old ways on hyper focusing on one thing and forgetting everything else for a while and jumping between fires.

It is much better for me in most ways.

But I think it is really important to have a way to show that slow progress in order to see it clearly and not getting into that “I don’t get shit done” mindset when you don’t have any big progress ever.

This is probably the single most important thing I learnt from taking a bachelors degree in Philosophy.

When people disagree, they could actually disagree, think that the other person don’t understand what they are saying or are discussing two different things.

Most recently I saw this because some nutritional expert had commented on need to eat food products with extra protein.

Most people who do a lot of weight training or anything similar that focus on getting a lot of protein (or water for that matter; I have heard the same arguments there) isn’t saying it is necessary for a healthy diet.

What they are saying is that it can have benefits to many different sides of your well being to eat more protein up to a point.

For me, eating a lot of protein keeps my body fat lower and my ADHD brain working better.

Is it necessary? No. But it can still have huge up sides, especially if you aren’t the most careful with your diet otherwise.

When there isn’t any downsides (within reasonable amounts) why not give it a shot? I fucking hate how we have to mix two different questions into one and present the other as wrong.

I have followed this rule for a long time. No matter if it is promises from managers at work, relationships or when people talk about showing “understanding” for neurodiversity.

If you talk the talk, do you walk the walk?

As we all know: talk is cheap.

This doesn’t mean I expect people to succeed on everything they promise or say. But it means that I either need to see the efforts you are making if there isn’t any direct results yet.

Like if you in one meeting says that you try to be accommodating for my ADHD. Then we have three possible situations when some ADHD trait is visible in me

• You give me shit / grief about it in some way
• You acknowledge it without making it into a negative thing for me
• Or you try to use it as an opportunity to understand what’s going on and ideally figure out how for the both of us to deal with it in the future

The first one shows me that you just like to say things like that without actually doing anything to back it up.

The second one is better, but not ideal depending on the situation.

The third is what I prefer, however if we have done a lot of this in the past, the second could be the better situation if it is what we have agreed on.

The way I typically do planning is kind of like a calendar. But time isn’t that important. Duration is. And order usually is.

I just list of everything I plan to do in order and try to guesstimate how much time it takes. It is a decent way for me to make plans a bit more realistic than if I don’t include time.

I know how much time things take (most of the time), I know how many hours there is in a day.

Some are doing the Netflix thing of just dumping it all on day one, others are doing the HBO thing of dropping a couple of episodes and then one a week.

When I started to watch the second season of Andor I noticed that Disney are dropping three episodes at a time every week.

I really likes this one, for some shows, especially shows like Andor, that I think work better as a binge show.

Like I get that they don’t want to drop it all at once, but I think more than one episode a week works better.

This whole Tariff war drives me insane. Mostly because so many doesn’t understand what tariffs are, who pays them (it is always end consumer that ends up paying it in the end for any tax or expense).

A tariff can be a good thing, if you want to, for example encourage people to buy local dairy products over foreign. Or just have a tax similar to VAT to try to even out prices a bit.

But when you just put a huge tariff on anything foreign no matter if there are any local alternatives or not it is just dumb. You’re just making everything more expensive.

One could add the tariff, but make it deductible against documented expenses in the process of moving things against local production.

You can’t be all stick or all carrot, that’s just dumb and counterproductive, but you can get great results with both.

I thought these right wing assholes were supposed to understand the economy?

This drives me nuts.

So if you “install” a PWA on macOS and iOS (or add it to the “dock” or “Home Screen” as they call it), you get back and forward arrows on macOS, while not on iOS.

This kind of drives me nuts, because most web apps aren’t really designed with this in mind. Sometimes navigation gestures work, other times not.

Kind of makes them useless on iOS and iPadOS.

This is a thing that have annoyed me for so long with various kinds of products. For example USB-C docks or dongles.

It seems like most of them are designed with the assumption that everyone has whatever they are connected to a laptop sitting on a desk or other larger flat surface, where the dock can be neatly placed next to it with the 5-10cm cable they all have.

My laptop is always on a stand when I’m at the desk at home. So it would be dangling on to the side. And they break when you do that.

I wish products were designed with people using things in different ways in mind when they are designed. For example by making the thunderbolt / USB-C cable from the docking to your laptop detachable. or having a longer cable.

But this is usually only available on the more expensive options. When I took a quick look this moment the options that is “good enough” for me vs the ones with longer or detachable cable is like twice as expensive.