My fellow ADHDers! Bring it in: Do not buy a planner. Do you have a planner in the cart? Take it out of the cart. You know damn well that planner is going to get written in once and then sit there and collect dust for the entirety of 2025.
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I feel very seen as someone who spent half the weekend looking at new planners knowing full well there's a lovely undated one on my desk I bought 2 years ago and have never used... 😅
I know that ADHD folks love the undated ones but I end up forgetting about those too during the week. My lack of object permanence basically made it so that I have a whiteboard practically sitting in front of my face to keep track of my todos.
A little whiteboard sounds perfect!! I used to buy dated planners but then if I missed chunks I'd feel so much guilt about going back to the planner and skipping all those empty pages - I felt like a failure for not using it. Adhd is so fun 🙃
I’m thinking about getting a 2025 wall calendar that I can put right above my computer desk so I am ALWAYS LOOKING AT IT and hopefully it will not fall into a black hole the instant it leaves my sight. 😭
I have a white board with different colored dry erase colors. I really have a hard time with object permanence so having that white board in front of my face all week long in bright colors helps me keep track of my weekly todos.
As for appointments? Google Calendar with +100 notifications.
You're welcome! They are so pretty and your notebook collecting loving soul just wants it. But it's going to be sitting in a drawer or a shelf somewhere collecting dust.
I actually have a planner that works for me! It sits open on my coffee table so I HAVE to see it every time I sit down. That’s really been the lynchpin; if I close it, everything goes out the window.
Lack of object permiance for the win! And hey? If works for you? Do it. I am never going to shit on someone's methods of organization. Especially if you are neurospicy.
I needed this reminder as all the sticker and washi stores post their Black Friday deals. I need to stop buying stickers I won’t use for a planner I also won’t use
This is such a great idea! And I love doing junk journals where I pasted different stuff in aesthetically pleasing manner using the stuff I have around the house. It's so much fun!
I've been using planners and organizers and calendars since I was five. THEY DO NOT WORK! The best thing for me is just a regular notebook that I budget weekly in (there's no real order, but I understand it) and sticky notes for reminders and task lists. Best I can do!
Sticky notes of many colors and a notebook system that may have started out sort of like a bullet journal but is now largely a book of lists kept interesting through the cunning use of ✨STICKERS✨ for me!
Exactly. The thing I could do for organization and clutter is nice cabinets to put things in and baskets. Lots of baskets, lmao things aren't always perfect, but at least it stays tidy in some way.
Yeah, I have actually bought that one and it still collected dust. I think the only that worked for me is the white board method. I'll write down my weekly goals on a small cheap whiteboard in different colors.
TJ Maxx has that shit bad with the aesthetically pleasing planners. I also have this trouble in the dollar tree. It takes everything for me to just move past that aisle. 🤣
We had to use them in school, and I don't recall if mine was ever useful. But as an adult, that feels like it would be a "list of things that will never happen because I wrote them down." 🤣
I love planners, I just don't ever use them. I also have an addiction to notebooks. Seriously, the office supply aisle at the dollar tree is my kryptonite.
I love pretty notebooks. It's a struggle for me to think of what to put in them. I know what goes in them. I just don't think of it or particularly like writing by hand anymore 😅
They're my "No. Put it down. YOU HAVE THEM AT HOME."
Yes! That’s how I use it. I have the planner opened to each week, if I had a proper author set up then maybe I could do it. But I still kinda wing it when it comes that 🤣
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It's become part of the morning routine. Sit at the desk, do the day's list, and then it's on with the rest of my day.
Rolling over unfinished tasks makes them less likely to get lost. For, uh, reasons? 😅
As for appointments? Google Calendar with +100 notifications.
…no? 🥺
A basic notebook really is the best for me planning-wise.
We had to use them in school, and I don't recall if mine was ever useful. But as an adult, that feels like it would be a "list of things that will never happen because I wrote them down." 🤣
They're my "No. Put it down. YOU HAVE THEM AT HOME."
I'm trying to turn one into a recipe book.