Ask HN: Devs with ADHD do you use specialized tooling?

• selfcontrol

  119 3,955 0.0 Objective-C

  :skull: Mac app to block your own access to distracting websites etc for a predetermined period of time. It can not be undone by the app or by a restart – you must wait for the timer to run out.

  

I use https://selfcontrolapp.com/ to block websites that offer a quick dopamine hit, like HN. I put my phone in do-not-disturb mode. I block focus time on Google Calendar and set myself to be DND on Slack during that time.

Jira actually helps, but I set some time aside to organize it, typically when I know I can be interrupted because it doesn't require much focus. Split every task into multiple subtasks. This makes your progress more visible and projects less daunting.

Keep a physical notebook by your desk. I've tried alternatives but they're too easy to tinker with and therefore, too distracting. At a minimum you need to offload things you would store in your memory onto something, and the easier and faster that is to do, the better.

• nb

  48 6,343 9.2 Shell

  CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

You could also look into these with should work well for the same purpose:

https://jrnl.sh

https://xwmx.github.io/nb/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• jrnl

  17 6,296 8.7 Python

  Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.

  

You could also look into these with should work well for the same purpose:

https://jrnl.sh

https://xwmx.github.io/nb/

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