AI & ADHD

[NotAChevy]

I know I've already touched on apps to make our lives easier, but I'm now getting super interested in learning how to create said apps and integrate them with AI (Artificial Intelligence).

I'm still in the very early stages, and prob won't have anything to turn out for quite awhile, but it's totally fascinating to think about the possibilities. I mean, create an app that would help those of us with ADHD make our lives easier, while still being easy to use and interesting- what more is there, right?

Are there others out there that’d like to go down this road with me? We can keep each other accountable, learn a new skill, and have some fun in the process? If so, let’s meet up and talk..

[FocusAndFlow]

I'm very interested. I feel there is a bit of a code to unravel here and if we can devise an iterative model that can take ADHDers down slightly different decision trees, if you will, that best accommodates their cognitive tendencies naturally, while developing the areas of improvement to increase their quality of life, we would all be well served by a 'cognitive productivity app' that truly feels like it's working for us vs. us working for it, if that makes any sense.

I've tried Trello a few times and I hate that feeling of burdensome maintenance where I truly feel like I'm serving the app rather than it serving me. I'm sure it's because I get distracted by the bells and whistles, etc., but in the end, it drains my energy rather than focusing it.

It's a bit like having a very large, fancy excel financial model that does EVERYTHING. The problem is that it becomes too heavy, too difficult to update and when it crashes, it's a nightmare to repair. That's when you know you're serving it rather than it serving you, whatever is meant by 'it'.

So - An app that tracks everything for me, that I open every day and simply guides me through my maximum productivity with minimal inputs after initial setup sounds like just the ticket, to be honest.

Main challenge - How to build such a tool having ADHD ourselves without doing down all these rabbit holes? In the beginning, we'll have to serve it because it needs to be created, so what is a reasonable expectation in development milestones to at least put down some goal posts in terms of functionality and date commitments to get there?

Comments, thoughts?

I'm sure I'm overthinking it, but then again, I do have ADHD...

I'm very interested. I hope this is helpful.

[PinkPanda23]

Funny, I was just thinking about posting a question about apps to the group. I'm inundated with ads for apps to help me with ADHD because the algorithms have noticed that I look at ADHD content. All of them look enticing in some way, but my first cringe is having to pay for subscriptions. That has suspicion written all over it for a way to take advantage of impulsive and scatterbrained ADHDers who start things and don't finish them. I have only one experience with a recommended app - Fly Lady. My counselor and many users rave about her ability to motivate people like me to organize their clutter and keep their homes clean. I had to uninstall it because I felt overrun by the constant contact and the pressure to buy her products. So I understand well another commenter saying apps have us work for them instead of the other way around.

Your question shows the need is as great as ever, and that perhaps existing apps are more exploitive than helpful. I guess my question would be "are there any existing apps that actually have helped anybody here, in what way, and what would make them better? I'm almost 68 and I don't have time or Social Security income to mess around with a random somebody's idea of how to help me that isn't proven by actual ADHDers here that I trust.

[Mamamichl]

my partner would have more time than me but we are both interested in this type of thing. I just used ChatGPT to give me a rough draft of my cover letter as I am again looking for work.

[Lilwonder]

super interesting. My initial thoughts really echo the ones already expressed: make it free, or at least largely free. There must be a way to monetize it/get it paid for without asking for a subscription. Even an initial one time payment feels much less exploitive to me.

And of course, it has to be my tool, I would hate to become a servant to it.

I have this idea about a 24 hour free zoom channel for body doubling purposes. Maybe that can be “app-ized” somehow?

[sheadhd]

I'm also super interested. I just discovered a free AI web app called Goblin.Tools - specifically the Magic ToDo List and it is a game changer for me, but it has limitations, (mainly that it can't be exported into another project management tool).

It takes any task you have and magically breaks it down "so you don't" - which is my biggest challenge with projects. It also ESTIMATES time to complete the tasks!

"Chunking" it down into granular subtasks just doesn't come naturally to me, so then I procrastinate because my executive functions of focus and effort just don't want to sit still long enough to get it done.

There is an app that only costs 1.99, which I did buy and haven't really dug into yet. I believe the developer is neurodivergent ADHD also, but he has indicated on his Patreon that he doesn't really have the time to keep improving the app.

Basically, an app that helps us break down larger projects into it's tasks and allows us to assign estimates, export into other applications and even delegate them would be amazing.

[Greenbeeps]

I’ve just added an App…called ‘Motivation’ cannot fathom it out!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I saw it recommended on instagram for people with ADHD!

So…..if you’re creating an App….the setting up of it from the users perspective..especially if you’re, like me, IT phobic/slow to understand it needs to be really descriptive in how to use it!

I’m completely lost…I paid £17 😃