Adult ADD Strengths

I Want Sandy is a free web application that gives you email reminders for the things you often forget.

It was recently an Webware 100 Award Winner

I Want Sandy is an automated e-mail assistant. You simply add “her” as an e-mail contact to get started. Sending Sandy an e-mail with a small message will have the system scan what you wrote and convert into an e-mail reminder or calendar appointment that will be sent back to you at whatever time you note. It also has been designed to work with the popular microblogging service Twitter, letting users remotely set reminders while away from their regular e-mail.

Lifehacker has a great post on Top Ten Telephone Tricks

I especially like #1 Trick automated phone bots into thinking your line’s dead. and #4. Skip the greeting and get right to the beep with one keypress. ADHD adults are known for many things but patience in the face of inefficient, irritating voicemail loops from hell isn’t one of them.

There’s a special place in hell waiting for the person(s) who invented voicemail menus that often leave you trapped in voicemail hell. One of the worst I remember was Hewlett Packard where you spent several minutes going from one voicemail option to another for what seemed to be like an eternity only to have them hang up on you at the end.

Here are the links to websites and blogs relating to Time Management for Adults and Children with ADHD for my CHADD Vancouver ADHD Time Management presentation tonight.

Time Management websites Articles, Books and Websites

ADHD Treatment - Technology
Online, computer based and external clocks timers and reminders

Internet Addiction Wake Up Devices

21 blog posts on Time Management

Top Ten Most Annoying Alarm Clocks. ADD Strategic Management?

20 Ways to Say No for the overburdened people pleasers

Time Management for Anarchists: The Movie
You don’t need to be an anarchist to find it useful and funny.

Great ideas are conceived and subsequently lost in the hands of creative geniuses, everyday. Frustration, rationalization, and despondence loom as creative people jump from idea, to idea, to idea… and fall short of actually making ideas happen. It is a shame that most creative breakthroughs never materialize.

via Kineda

Now this sounds like it was written for adults with Attention Deficit Disorder doesn’t it? While lost creative ideas aren’t solely the domain of adults with Attention Deficit Disorder, they probably occur more frequently with us, and cause us more grief than non ADDers

The Action method is a method of productive creativity by a company called Behance.

The very useful Make Use Of blog has a pretty extensive list of 38 different To Do List Services. They also have links to each service and briefly describe some of the additional features of each service

apart from ‘Create/Delete/Edit Lists and Tasks’

For those of you who haven’t checked out online to do list services, there’s a lot more features nowadays then there was a few years ago.

Here’s some of the features of the different services listed:

Create tasks by dialing provided number and leaving a message

Retrieve and add lists via SMS receive alerts via E-mail, SMS or instant messenger

RSS support

This may be relevant to some of the bloggers at the Northern Voice Blog Conference in Vancouver this Friday and Saturday. Where there probably will be more adults with attention surplus condition than the average 5% in the population. See Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career.

Here’s an example of how a Web Designer, Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign, who’s

been organized most of my life

stays organized in the different areas of his web design business. He’s redesigned sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path.

This cartoon is by Dave Walker
Dave does open source cartoons at We Blog Cartoons. One of my clients sent me this.

I know that for many adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (both from theoretical and personal experience) a “little look” at the internet can be broadly defined as sometime between 5 minutes and 5 hours:) You may want to use an Internet Addiction Wake Up Device to shorten that time a bit.
Often the monolith isn’t as really big as it seems. So what do you do when faced with the seemingly overwhelming monolith to carve it down to an un-overwhelming, doable size instead of running away from the task and distracting out via the internet, video games, food, TV etc?

I did this post last year and given the time of season, I thought it’d be useful to repost it. My theme for this year will be sustainable growth. Sustainable being the challenging part for an ADDer. Enjoy.

How many of you actually carry out your New Year’s resolutions? Honestly. In full.

I’m no paragon of virtue here myself.

I believe that after too many failed attempts at New Year’s resolutions, most people start to attach strong unconscious negative feelings towards New Year’s resolutions, but continue to create a new one or a batch of them each year in part out of guilt, or perceived social pressure.