Notes on Managing ADHD

The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term. — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

Fernando Borretti’s practical guide to managing ADHD, divided into high-level strategies (control systems) and micro-level tactics (stratagems for tricking yourself).

Strategies

• Borretti - Chemistry First
• Borretti - Memory
• Borretti - Energy
• Borretti - Procrastination
• Borretti - Introspection
• Borretti - Time

Tactics

• Borretti - Task Selection
• Borretti - Visual Field Management
• Borretti - Project Check-Ins
• Borretti - Centralize Your Inboxes
• Borretti - Inbox Zero
• Borretti - Inbox Bankruptcy
• Borretti - Do It On Your Own Terms
• Borretti - Replace Interrupts with Polling
• Borretti - Accountability Buddy
• Borretti - Plan First Do Later
• Borretti - Derailment
• Borretti - Using Neuroticism to Defeat ADHD
• Borretti - The Master of Drudgery
• Borretti - Thrashing
• Borretti - Put Travel in the Calendar
• Borretti - Choice of Tools

Resources

• How To Do Things — ADHD-friendly Pomodoro method. 50 pages, no fluff.
• Getting Things Done — Good advice (dump your brain into the todo list) but assumes you won’t have problems actually executing tasks.