This is generally how I operate, along with not knowing which version of me will be present from day to day (motivated me or don’t talk to me me). My daughter has PDA and is AuDHD. Keep researching and talking about it—it really needs to be taken more seriously in the US.
I love this piece! This is how I operated in grad school. I had a little notebook that I carried everywhere. Then, when I graduated and started my career, I tried to do more formal task management systems and even read much of Talbert's writings about the Getting Things Done framework. They all have failed, so I recently went back to my little notebook. Thinking about it as a menu, I think will help even more, though, because I do feel like I have still been thinking prescriptively about it.
I had a composition notebook in grad school exclusively for ideas -- particularly research Qs/projects. Nowadays, I just put those in the margins of my running to-do list pad of paper. I wish gorgeous bullet journals and planners were my style, but I'm apparently far more basic than all that. 🤣💜
I so enjoyed this piece, and I really appreciate the "menu" concept. I would argue that it is how I use my to-do lists these days. Making a list for the day or week/weekend and checking items off as I complete them, because I picked ones that felt manageable/fun at the time. It can be challenging when things are time-sensitive, though. Either way, whatever I miss gets moved to the next list.
I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that this is how I do things. I have been trying to define what I actually do that is really working v. what I should be doing/should be working. Thank you for writing this for you and all of us.
This is generally how I operate, along with not knowing which version of me will be present from day to day (motivated me or don’t talk to me me). My daughter has PDA and is AuDHD. Keep researching and talking about it—it really needs to be taken more seriously in the US.
I love this piece! This is how I operated in grad school. I had a little notebook that I carried everywhere. Then, when I graduated and started my career, I tried to do more formal task management systems and even read much of Talbert's writings about the Getting Things Done framework. They all have failed, so I recently went back to my little notebook. Thinking about it as a menu, I think will help even more, though, because I do feel like I have still been thinking prescriptively about it.
I had a composition notebook in grad school exclusively for ideas -- particularly research Qs/projects. Nowadays, I just put those in the margins of my running to-do list pad of paper. I wish gorgeous bullet journals and planners were my style, but I'm apparently far more basic than all that. 🤣💜
I so enjoyed this piece, and I really appreciate the "menu" concept. I would argue that it is how I use my to-do lists these days. Making a list for the day or week/weekend and checking items off as I complete them, because I picked ones that felt manageable/fun at the time. It can be challenging when things are time-sensitive, though. Either way, whatever I miss gets moved to the next list.
I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that this is how I do things. I have been trying to define what I actually do that is really working v. what I should be doing/should be working. Thank you for writing this for you and all of us.