Hi guys!!!! Just a gently reminder to you ,that you must not self-diagnoses yourself. Just bc you identified with some symptoms of a health condition it doesn't mean you have that disease. Rather it is mental or physical
Thank you for the reminder! It's important to seek proper medical care for a diagnosis! I went through extensive testing and appointments as well as multiple specialists before receiving my diagnosis. Please make sure you're all getting proper care!
But also remember that is okay if you cannot afford to go and get a formal diagnosis and if you relate to all or very nearly all struggles (you gotta do your research to see the variety of symptoms its not just inattentiveness and procrastinating) then its okay to assume you may have adhd and use the techniques and "life hacks" that people with adhd use!
@@nicoleweise35 great point!! you can always implement useful tips and tricks for your own brain, even if you don't have a diagnosis! a diagnosis to me was just a tool to use to understand how my brain operates!
Actually, self-diagnosis is valid. It’s nice to have the validation of a diagnosis from a doctor, but we know ourselves more than a doctor and doctors misdiagnose a lot. Self- and peer-diagnosis for adhd and autism are more accurate than doctor diagnosis.
I've found that the only thing that works for me, without feeling like it's an extra task or distracts me, it's simply having ONE notebook where I do everything. Meal plan, brain dump, task lists, etc. Then I cross everything off as I go. Works better than any planner or planning system I've ever tried
Me having up to 5 books for several things like work, paperwork,bussines, and usually ended up losing them and cant do it right.i find them usually after 6 months to a year😅. Maybe i should stick to a jurnal for all purpose from now on
Can confirm, used to have many different notebooks and they just made things more chaotic. I also hate electronic planners, I need to see paper layout :’)
@@miahan8988I really don’t think digital planners work for the adhd brain. I am not a clinician but I know digital planners don’t work for me (and I’ve been in IT my entire career lol)
Same! I use the hobonichi original planner and it has a month view and a daily page..i use it for my daily to do list, budget, meal plan, and even as a wallet because I keep it in a passport holder. It’s small enough that I can take everywhere and keep track of the daily plan. It’s set up like a notebook with open daily pages
I have ADHD, and I have a lot of trouble focusing on the planner when it’s just written lists, even if there’s colorful highlighter. I use box stickers, icon stickers, and washi to call attention to each task, so I can actually see them. I don’t time block, but sometimes I use time blocking sections to tell myself what order to do tasks, when time is a factor (like getting ready to out). The deco also helps me see tasks and important dates in my weekly view.
Alex, that makes sense! I use boxes too and they're SO helpful! I have little icons as well that I like to use. I love being able to see something important right at a glance!! Thank you for watching!
Same with me. I will never look in a list alone or just plain text. Highlighting sections with boxes, having different font styles also help my eyes to focus on a single thing. The sticker motivate me to look at my pages again.
I use stickers as well! It calls attention to the task for me and then I look at what was written. The list in my planner does absolutely nothing for me. It has to be highlighted in a box or functional stickers. If I want to put decorative stickers I make sure all my functional stickers are there first then add a few decorative stickers so that it is still functional for me.
I'm the same way. Seeing only the task list as written words on the page without anything else will make me see only the overall shape after a while. If some lines are highlighted or in coloured pens, then it's a rainbow shape. I'll have a hard time seeing the individual tasks unless something calls my attention to it, like stickers that represent the tasks, or highlighting only the urgent tasks. Using red pens or highlighters helps too. But overall, as a visual person, if there's no visual interest in the composition, I only see a white page with a random shapes lol
Me watching for my son realizing my entire life of having an extremely organized daily planner my whole life was a daily coping strategy. If it’s not in the calendar, it didn’t get done. When it gets written down, my brain can exhale. Plus my husband can’t keep up with my hummingbird thought patterns. I think our brains just move so fast and flutter around on a higher frequency.
Oh my god you speak sooo much like me (when I’m at my most coherent lol). I taught college courses for grad school and when I couldn’t get my ADHD meds for a month (ofc there was a shortage in a college town during the last month of the semester), almost half the students in my course evals commented about me rambling too much or my thoughts being hard to follow. I quit teaching after graduating this past semester and will not be teaching again bc even during other semesters when I was managing my speech better, it was still too stressful to organize my thoughts and was just an exhausting amount of cognitive labor for me to make a PowerPoint, write notes, practice what I’d say, and patrol my language every day, especially when students asked me questions and I needed to be coherent and concise on the spot etc… but just saying this made me feel valid lol
I'm not a teacher in any way but God I understand you. Other folks just don't understand how difficult articulating your thoughts is. It sounds so basic but doing it everyday for work is exhausting and it's just not worth it for me. Why try and be a fish when you're a bird?
you are!! I know the "off meds" feeling and it's tough!!! People don't always love this video, but this is just how my brain works! This video is over a year old, so I've learned to tighten my chatter and get better at editing!! thank you for watching !!
I’m 73 and while I’ve not been diagnosed with ADHD, I just recently see myself in that way. What really resonated for me in your comment was the rambling and thoughts being hard to follow. And the need for and lack of coherence. You have articulated what I am experiencing. Patrolling your language is a great analogy. Thanks.
YES!! I only teach once a week, but I need like 2 days to fully recover. I talk (and think) like this ,and I didn't even notice her "rambling" until you mentioned it.....because it's so natural/normal to me. My brain was just along for the ride.
I need to use brain dumps to get it out of my head and see it on paper. Then, I organize my thoughts by sorting what I wrote on paper. Then I try to set an order for things I want to accomplish. If I think about things too long, it can becomes too draining.
This was presented with an ADHD mind. Everything you were saying and the way you explained things was so ADHD. I related to every second of this video. I do use disc planners. I love them!! So flexible and simple which i need.
Thank you! I always thought I was alone with how I think and process, but it turns out we're everywhere! We just forgot where we placed the flyer for the ADHD meetup 🤣 Thank you so much for watching!!
If it is important enough to track it should be integrated in the habit somehow. If I don't mark it off asap I'll forget, but I'm also not carrying a planner everywhere.
@@grimsqueaker5333 That's a good point, but we have more difficulty committing things to habit than NT folks, so habit trackers don't serve much of a purpose for me. I use a checklist and move it from day to day!
I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my grandfathers around Christmas a few years ago. Makes the holiday bittersweet. Sending hugs. I hope you can use those wonderful supplies. 🤍
Yes, exactly!! People with ADHD are motivated by interest, not incentives, generally. So us neurodivergents need to have planners that sustains our interest, and that sometimes means pretty stickers and washi! Everyone needs different things! Thank you for watching, Rena!!
Hi! Yes I am a functional planner instead of a pretty planner, I did buy some stickers but I hardly use them. I may add some highlighters, but nothing major because if I start doing to much; everything looks to busy and it makes my brain hurt. I love to-do lists instead. 👍🏻
Here is a suggestion: Ive just purchased a wallet with a small a7 5-ring binder inside with pockets for cards, keys, reciepts and cash. I love the idea of having journals for different things but it never works out and I end up abandoning them. with this layout I can make notes and lists while out without having to remember a seperate notebook. With a binder you can also add, remove and rearrange pages with different sections and also "folders" (a long piece of paper with "doors" just like a paper document folder) If anyone would like one but cant find one, you can buy the ring binder "spines" on their own with screws so you can simply find a wallet that suits you and screw in the binder part.
I was part of an adhd workshop/group during grad school and this was something I learned that helped me out so much. Just by categorizing tasks by their priority made me so much more productive and most importantly, not feel so overwhelmed. It was suddenly okay that I didn’t get to deep clean my kitchen one week because I had school tasks that were much higher priorities. It also helped me figure out what my priorities were in general.
I was diagnosed with ADHD just a few years ago. I bullet journaled for years, which I love in concept. But I'm no artist. I spent A LOT of time creating my spreads. I switched to a printed quarterly planner instead. I do love my stickers, though. And I love my colorful pens and markers. But it's so much better for me not worrying about trying to create a pretty, IG-worthy spread.
I don’t know if I have ADHD, but my oldest was just recently diagnosed and well… she’s my mini me. I related to everything in this video. Biggest question, what do you do with tasks that you’ve scheduled ahead of time? For instance, I spent a solid month at the beginning of the year going through the weekly section of my common planner and used sticky notes to plan all the recurring household chores that aren’t in the normal flow of a day. Things like wiping down the vent hood on a monthly basis or running the refresh cycle on the washing machine. Those darn household maintenance things but not chores. So now, when that week comes up, I read thru the sticky notes, decide if I’m going to have time for those maintenance chores or not, move them to a different week if I need to, or write them down on a master list for the week/month. But then! The master list was starting to give me anxiety cause I’d sit and re-read the master list over and over again trying to decide what I had time for and what could I slot in, instead of just getting one of the things done. That’s when I decided I needed to go way back to the dailies bujo style and write out my entire day step by step. Example: Wednesday June 12th Wake up Wash face Oil pull Start coffee Brush teeth Check incubator Water Breakfast Vitamins And so on. Something about writing out the order the things need to happen in rather than an ambiguous list of “at some point get these things done” list has snapped something in my brain for the better. It works great for the work day when I’m mostly tethered to my desk, but come the weekend and I was floundering cause so much more of my day is not in front of my list. So I put the reminders app as a widget on my phone and built that same list in my phone which narrowed my entire day of things to do to be a functioning person to an even more narrow “things to do right now in this order”. I’ve been so successful!!! But! Back to my main question of, what do you do with the things that need to happen later in the week or month, but you can’t just keep migrating them daily?
I relate to what you wrote. What I do is keep them in a postit note that can be moved around. It’s like you said, I have a master mega list of to dos, and then i write a list for every day the night before, considering how much time and energy i will be having. I have a list for what i aim to do on a week in a postit note, so that if i don’t get around to doing it, i can remove it from that page and paste it on the next. I don’t know if i have adhd either, but my sister and i have been noticing that we probably do.
I have always struggled with trying to find WHERE I had written things down that were important. Too many sticky notes, or pieces of scrap paper flying around the house. So I finally figured out what works for me: I found VERY pretty notebooks/journals, because they make me WANT to use them, and they are easy to spot in my clutter. AND I have a different one for each area of my life: shopping list, to do list, scouting, gardening, etc...That way I don't have to schlepp my entire life to the grocery store, and don't have to keep flipping through lots of pages to find what I am looking for. HOWEVER, I agree with you, my "layouts" are super simple, hardly decorative at all. Because 1) I am not that artistic, and 2) it would take me forever to decide how to decorate each page. By then I would have forgotten what I needed to write down. But I apparently do need the visual and tactile "reward" of handling something pretty to actually use it and FIND it when needed.
Yassss. When we pretty plan we use our creative energy and then we struggle to use our productive energy with it. I looove all the gorgeous planners out there. But I just dropped a Hemlock and oak and a PaperTessDesigns for a bullet journal this month 🙃 I doodle sometimes in my bujo but most of the time I respond really well to the monochrome. Finding a different way to use that creative energy might be key. I want to start junk Journaling and expressive collaging. I will still use multiples I'm sure though haha.
Hi girl!! And yes, the creative energy has to go somewhere! my planner just isn't the place for it, at least for me. I have to have homes for all my creativity and homes for productivity!
I need color. but it has to be around the functional lists. So I set up my lists then add some flowers or stickers. Or my lists are colored pens. Just can't do black and white.
I haven't really used the Happy Planner i bought for 2023, so I i just picked up a Tul half letter. I'm planning on keeping it more minimal, but will use some functional stickers.
I just got diagnosed with ADHD back in july, almost a year ago, and I have tried what feels like a million kinds of planning systems. I just ordered a new physical planner that I am HOPING will finally be THE *perfect planner* but we will see. Thank you for this video, it was very reassuring about my purchase! I have tried online planning, google and notion, and the way you worded "online planning feels very abstract to me" was just the PERFECT way to describe online planning for me!! I could never put my finger on why it didnt work for me but it is so true!! The online space everything really just "disappears" from your mind the second you aren't looking at a screen, and timer reminders on my phone don't work for me either, they also just disappear into the void or the second I hit "snooze" its gone from my mind. Also not to mention how Notion particularly is SO customizable, to a fault!! I spend more time decorating my Notion page than actually using the planning features 🤣Physical planning really is the only thing that works for me, I just haven't found the *perfect planner* yet, hopefully its the one I just ordered! But long story short it really is just trial and error until you find the perfect system. Thank you for this video it was very validating for me and also helped me put into words my own struggles, thank you! :)
I found that I agree with you on the need to move things around in the planner. I couldn’t make the bullet journal effect work until I actually swapped to rings/disks and then just inserted the bullet journal functions into it and suddenly Boom! It worked for me :)
Everything definitely has to have a home in my adhd mind. I too also noticed that if I focused on making my planner “pretty” I would avoid writing in it bc I didn’t want to mess it up. Great video!
I really like the style in which you edit your videos, you don’t cut out filler words or distractions so it feels like I’m just on FaceTime I love it, new subscriber 😊
Same, that's why I use minimalist layouts and avoid using too much unessential color in my layouts. I usually only use colors if I need that thing to pop out at me when I look at it like if I have a bunch of assignments for different classes so I can tell what class it's for automatically by the color and my eyes are drawn to that task. or like only highligting a super important task but in this case for me it has to in the prettiest color ever or it might trigger my demand avoidance.
I can use fun kid stickers for color, but have trouble with so called "functional" stickers. I can not use an undated planner because my handwritten dates make it "not a real planner" 🤣.
Right! I agree with Ms Victoria Christina that u don't have adhd, u were diagnosed with it. But that doesnt mean u have it. But I just wanted to say I don't have it but yr functional planner is very helpful to me. The pretty stuff takes yr attention & focus away from what u need to do. Thank u. God bless. ❤ and I like how u were so excited abt yr boyfriend using the planner. Lol
I turned my husband onto these disc planners when I purchased a beautiful leather softfolio for him from Levenger in his favorite cognac brown color, with copper discs. (Thank you, Levenger, for having Sales). He reserves that for the things that are most meaningful to him. But the next thing I know, he’s at the local office supply store buying TUL notebooks for himself, and then for all the guys at the office! He uses them for work all the time now! He likes working with graph paper best because he can draw designs for products on them.
I think I do a hybrid. Mostly functional but I do add a washi border and a few stickers to keep myself interested in opening the planner and coming back to it. If I did no deco, I wouldn’t reach for it. I enjoyed your video thanks for sharing your layout.
I was diagnosed 2 months ago and I just gotta laugh when I talk with or hear ADHD people speak. We are fast and super numerous at how nutty we are. I laughed alot and I mean in a positive way as I can kinda hear ADHD and looking at your organiser and it's just like how so many of us apeak
Oh my goodness, you are so funny!!!! You are on point with everything you say!! You are so real and incredibly funny. 😆 😅You’re talking about me with the sticker distractions, too funny. Though I love junk journaling ephemera for decorating my planner pages. Thanks for sharing 😊, Arlene
I have to keep reminding myself not to buy a planner. I get too fussy about where I should write things. I often run out of space, which makes me not want to write the things that are on my mind. Even with free space, I'm afraid to write anything because I'm afraid that later I'll think of something else that I should've used the space for. I kind of bullet journal, now. I used to carry my journal back and forth from work, but my back started hurting because I carry a lot of stuff, and my husband requested that I stop carrying a backpack. Now, I keep a little notebook to write in on the go. The plan was to move things from the small notebook into my bullet journal, but I haven't. I've only opened my bullet journal like 2 times this week. Tbh I do best with the small notebook for everything approach, but I really want to be an artsy bullet journal girl 😭. I still use the bullet journal method in my pocket notebooks, but they're not pretty!
I am not diagnosed but the algorithm recommended me this video for a reason, and honestly I loved it. I don’t use planners to actually plan my day, I find that I cannot keep track of everything so it makes me just not. I am definitely an all or nothing kinda girl and it’s prolly not a good thing. If I can’t track everything I’m just going to suffer and track nothing 😂 but I do want to do more during my day and get more things done, so I think I’m going to have to give it a shot, everything you said just said “me! Me! Me!” Especially going down rabbit holes we don’t need to go down- I think one time I got so distracted I was looking at one of my favorite actors biography just because I wanted to see if he voiced a character in a movie. 😂😂😂 Anyway, thank you for the video!
I need a planner to remind me that i have a planner and i actually wrote stuff down in it!!! Then i need a planner to remind me where i put the thing ...
It won't help those ADHDers who are the opposite of this. I need to make my pages pretty or I won't fill them in. I'll write something on a plain page and never look at it again. I just make my pages in advance with washi tape etc and fill in the functional stuff after.
OMG, I’m ready to be your friend. You remind me so much of myself heheh loved those scrapbooking parties with my mom too and I’ve been wanting to figure out what to do with all my notes that I’ve collected over the years & scrapbooking or collage has been in the back of my mind but I also wonder if anyone collages anymore lol? I love your adhd content. I also can’t do stickers either. The entire spread becomes a habitat for the monkey and I probably won’t get a single thing on the list then sticker hahaha
I have adhd and about 110 day planner/journals/post it’s /dry erase boards etc etc you name it I’ve tried it and I’m really bad at consistently makes lists and planners and always forget to make the list or stay on track with lists or day planning- it’s a struggle -I’ve gotten a little better at work and for school but it’s been years go trying hard to pick up lists and planning a habit and something I do consistently
I always write my day out with times.i write everything. For example ill start with 6am wake up 6:15 hygene +list all parts of hygene routine 6:30 make bed So on and so forth for the entire day. I usually organize my tasks by priority and dofficulty with the most difficult in the early part of the day and the least difficult when im more likely to be tired.
I am just not into the idea of sitting for a while to decorate calendar pages. I love it when other people do it. Yes, stickers are distracting, and planning how they fit together cohesively and in a logic spatial order would take too long with ADHD.
Hey guys another gentle reminder: While it is important to seek professional advice and a proper clinical diagnosis before making serious medical changes to your life, such as pills or other extensive treatments, this can take time. While you are waiting for getting your diagnosis, it certainly won't do you harm to experiment with strategies to get things done and improve on your time management and well-being. Because you don't need to have ADD or ADHD to do that. Don't let perfectionism lure you into inaction.
I just love bullets and hierarchies. I hate wordy lists and planners that look like scrapbooks it’s overly stimulating. I don’t know why but it always has to be neat and crisp with minimal erasures, etc. 🙄
Bold of you to assume that a person with ADHD has the patience to watch a 24 minute video. I'm watching at 2.15x speed and still didn't make it past 6 minutes
I'm the ADHD that won't use a plain planner. Everything just becomes a blob and stickers help direct my eyes. I have to make the page attractive or I won't use it
the link in the description to your website seems strange, my computer says it's not secure, and it doesn't look like a normal website - is this the most recent link you have, or can it be updated? maybe it's because i'm not in the same country as you or something 🤔
There was a lot of nonsensical rambling before getting to the point. Plus there's little defined structure to the video. Such is the downside of watching videos from ppl who actually have ADD themselves. Ironically the noisiness of their mind gets in the way of their video being helpful for viewers with ADD.
This video should have been edited down to 5 minutes, I don't tend to complain online, but as an ADD person, this is very ADD/ADHD, UNFRIENDLY. Plus 12 minutes in there was nothing about "functional plan". It takes 15 seconds to say that you don't need stickers cause they are distracting, but she talks about it for 2 minutes and then how proud she is of her boyfriend? Annoying to just hear someone else's ADD difficulties instead of sharing actual useful knowledge. I already live with this every day. I am sure you are a wonderful person, but know your audience also.
This is really helpful, thank you!! Though one thing was a problem for me and that was the dog whining, it was very distracting and sometimes even painful with my noise sensitivity 🫣
Bujo didn't work for me because I need to have my planner already set up, if I have to do it from scratch, it adds an extra step to time management, and that is so frustrating, also the thing that I feel like having to make it pretty, instead of functional... is time wasting. Also, if I don't have any cue of what I have to write down, I get lost, I don't know what to do with it. So those are all the problems I have with bujo
Might recommend the hobonichi weeks. It's small and minimally set up already (the dates are there) each page has the dates for the week, and enough room to write down only the important stuff like work, event, and a chore or two. And the left side is dot paper so if you do need extra space you have it but you don't have to do anything to it if you don't need it or get overwhelmed. I use the side page for grocery lists so I don't overspend at the store and placing stickers because if the page doesn't look nice in some way I won't use it. It's the perfect size to write things but not so big that you feel the need to fill it up completely. So you feel like you accomplishing more since your only seeing the essentials.
I make little templates on my computer and print out stickers so I don't fuss. Like every week I do my budgeting. So if I just print it - I can stick in. And I just buy lots of stickers so I don't spend time doodling. So I get the pretty factor my brain craves without having to use my own energy lol.
Digital planning doesn’t help me I need to see it in my face all day with no screen saver or having to zoom in and out . My brain just doesn’t like it.
I made a widget for my home screen on my phone. It's my Google calendar, and shows my upcoming appointments, tasks, work shifts, for a couple of days. It's been a lifesaver!
@@adhdoneplansyou tried your best girlie 💪 ik It's difficult to be on camera and talk your heart comfortably . It's just a very nice start . I saw you've improved and is MUCH better even GREAT at this. Thankyou for not deleting this. You know you've achieved something 🎉 keep going girl . 😊
I do not have ADHD but I love Kimberly's style. I do like habit trackers, in fact I depend on them for health reasons. I truly don't think you have to have ADHD to appreciate her planning style and use them. Thank you for sharing.....
@@adhdoneplans Aaaawwww, I am so excited to see what you come up with, you are very creative like that. Your unique style of planning, I am sure, has helped so many. I do not have ADHD but I do have several health issues, and your planning style has helped me a great deal. Thank you, I appreciate what you are doing.
I’m not finished with your video yet, but this year and the end of 2023 I was functional planning and I got more done than ever. When I was “pretty planning,” I would look at my to-do list and if it didn’t look “aesthetic” or “pretty” I didn’t want to look at it or plan lol and you can obviously guess how that went. I also have ADHD and now that I am just focusing more on keeping things organized and functional, I am less worried about what the spreads look like and more worried about actually getting things done.
I found that I didn't even plan if I didn't start at the beginning of the week, or if I put the stickers in the right spot. Now I have more than one planner, and allow myself to use whichever one feels right. But my work and things that NEED to get done are not decorated (until maybe after the fact).
Overdoing stickers make me feel sick and nauseous. I saw my coworkers journal and it was covered with stickers. All i could think about was closing the damn thing!
I have ADHD and I have a functional pretty planner if that’s a thing 😂 I pre decorate pages when I need a break from a current task. I also use icon stickers to make sure I pay attention to current tasks. I’m a color coder, I don’t list because I will not pay attention to it so icon stickers are a go to for me as well as flag stickers. I took a longggg time finding what would work for me. Also I track everything in my planner. Rings a5 is my jam for now
Hi guys!!!! Just a gently reminder to you ,that you must not self-diagnoses yourself. Just bc you identified with some symptoms of a health condition it doesn't mean you have that disease. Rather it is mental or physical
Thank you for the reminder! It's important to seek proper medical care for a diagnosis! I went through extensive testing and appointments as well as multiple specialists before receiving my diagnosis. Please make sure you're all getting proper care!
But also remember that is okay if you cannot afford to go and get a formal diagnosis and if you relate to all or very nearly all struggles (you gotta do your research to see the variety of symptoms its not just inattentiveness and procrastinating) then its okay to assume you may have adhd and use the techniques and "life hacks" that people with adhd use!
@@nicoleweise35 great point!! you can always implement useful tips and tricks for your own brain, even if you don't have a diagnosis! a diagnosis to me was just a tool to use to understand how my brain operates!
Also remember that ADHD isn’t a disease!
Actually, self-diagnosis is valid. It’s nice to have the validation of a diagnosis from a doctor, but we know ourselves more than a doctor and doctors misdiagnose a lot. Self- and peer-diagnosis for adhd and autism are more accurate than doctor diagnosis.
I've found that the only thing that works for me, without feeling like it's an extra task or distracts me, it's simply having ONE notebook where I do everything. Meal plan, brain dump, task lists, etc. Then I cross everything off as I go. Works better than any planner or planning system I've ever tried
Same.
Me having up to 5 books for several things like work, paperwork,bussines, and usually ended up losing them and cant do it right.i find them usually after 6 months to a year😅.
Maybe i should stick to a jurnal for all purpose from now on
Can confirm, used to have many different notebooks and they just made things more chaotic. I also hate electronic planners, I need to see paper layout :’)
@@miahan8988I really don’t think digital planners work for the adhd brain. I am not a clinician but I know digital planners don’t work for me (and I’ve been in IT my entire career lol)
Same! I use the hobonichi original planner and it has a month view and a daily page..i use it for my daily to do list, budget, meal plan, and even as a wallet because I keep it in a passport holder. It’s small enough that I can take everywhere and keep track of the daily plan. It’s set up like a notebook with open daily pages
I have ADHD, and I have a lot of trouble focusing on the planner when it’s just written lists, even if there’s colorful highlighter. I use box stickers, icon stickers, and washi to call attention to each task, so I can actually see them. I don’t time block, but sometimes I use time blocking sections to tell myself what order to do tasks, when time is a factor (like getting ready to out). The deco also helps me see tasks and important dates in my weekly view.
Alex, that makes sense! I use boxes too and they're SO helpful! I have little icons as well that I like to use. I love being able to see something important right at a glance!! Thank you for watching!
Same with me. I will never look in a list alone or just plain text. Highlighting sections with boxes, having different font styles also help my eyes to focus on a single thing. The sticker motivate me to look at my pages again.
I use stickers as well! It calls attention to the task for me and then I look at what was written. The list in my planner does absolutely nothing for me. It has to be highlighted in a box or functional stickers. If I want to put decorative stickers I make sure all my functional stickers are there first then add a few decorative stickers so that it is still functional for me.
samesies, stickers are great for me
I'm the same way. Seeing only the task list as written words on the page without anything else will make me see only the overall shape after a while. If some lines are highlighted or in coloured pens, then it's a rainbow shape. I'll have a hard time seeing the individual tasks unless something calls my attention to it, like stickers that represent the tasks, or highlighting only the urgent tasks. Using red pens or highlighters helps too. But overall, as a visual person, if there's no visual interest in the composition, I only see a white page with a random shapes lol
Me watching for my son realizing my entire life of having an extremely organized daily planner my whole life was a daily coping strategy. If it’s not in the calendar, it didn’t get done. When it gets written down, my brain can exhale. Plus my husband can’t keep up with my hummingbird thought patterns. I think our brains just move so fast and flutter around on a higher frequency.
Oh my god you speak sooo much like me (when I’m at my most coherent lol). I taught college courses for grad school and when I couldn’t get my ADHD meds for a month (ofc there was a shortage in a college town during the last month of the semester), almost half the students in my course evals commented about me rambling too much or my thoughts being hard to follow. I quit teaching after graduating this past semester and will not be teaching again bc even during other semesters when I was managing my speech better, it was still too stressful to organize my thoughts and was just an exhausting amount of cognitive labor for me to make a PowerPoint, write notes, practice what I’d say, and patrol my language every day, especially when students asked me questions and I needed to be coherent and concise on the spot etc… but just saying this made me feel valid lol
I'm not a teacher in any way but God I understand you. Other folks just don't understand how difficult articulating your thoughts is. It sounds so basic but doing it everyday for work is exhausting and it's just not worth it for me. Why try and be a fish when you're a bird?
you are!! I know the "off meds" feeling and it's tough!!! People don't always love this video, but this is just how my brain works! This video is over a year old, so I've learned to tighten my chatter and get better at editing!! thank you for watching !!
I’m 73 and while I’ve not been diagnosed with ADHD, I just recently see myself in that way. What really resonated for me in your comment was the rambling and thoughts being hard to follow. And the need for and lack of coherence. You have articulated what I am experiencing. Patrolling your language is a great analogy. Thanks.
Same!!!
YES!! I only teach once a week, but I need like 2 days to fully recover. I talk (and think) like this ,and I didn't even notice her "rambling" until you mentioned it.....because it's so natural/normal to me. My brain was just along for the ride.
I need to use brain dumps to get it out of my head and see it on paper. Then, I organize my thoughts by sorting what I wrote on paper. Then I try to set an order for things I want to accomplish. If I think about things too long, it can becomes too draining.
This was presented with an ADHD mind. Everything you were saying and the way you explained things was so ADHD. I related to every second of this video. I do use disc planners. I love them!! So flexible and simple which i need.
Thank you! I always thought I was alone with how I think and process, but it turns out we're everywhere! We just forgot where we placed the flyer for the ADHD meetup 🤣 Thank you so much for watching!!
Ahhh yes!! Finally someone who can’t stand all the habit trackers in a planner!! Lol…I get so annoyed when I see them in there!
Yes, Paula!! I don't need to track EVERYTHING!!🤣
If it is important enough to track it should be integrated in the habit somehow.
If I don't mark it off asap I'll forget, but I'm also not carrying a planner everywhere.
@@grimsqueaker5333 That's a good point, but we have more difficulty committing things to habit than NT folks, so habit trackers don't serve much of a purpose for me. I use a checklist and move it from day to day!
same i hate all that shit LOL
My nana died at Christmas, and left me a huge collection of scrapbook supplies. Soooo much Creative Memories stuff you would not believe.
I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my grandfathers around Christmas a few years ago. Makes the holiday bittersweet. Sending hugs. I hope you can use those wonderful supplies. 🤍
I found an appointment sticker I like and use it for all appts.
So when I see it- I automatically know it’s an appt
Yes, Andrea!! I adore my task sticker boxes! Thank you for coming by and watching!
i tried not to use stickers and washi, it turns out i did not look forward to opening my planner. i need the colors and happiness.
Yes, exactly!! People with ADHD are motivated by interest, not incentives, generally. So us neurodivergents need to have planners that sustains our interest, and that sometimes means pretty stickers and washi! Everyone needs different things! Thank you for watching, Rena!!
Hi! Yes I am a functional planner instead of a pretty planner, I did buy some stickers but I hardly use them. I may add some highlighters, but nothing major because if I start doing to much; everything looks to busy and it makes my brain hurt. I love to-do lists instead. 👍🏻
Here is a suggestion:
Ive just purchased a wallet with a small a7 5-ring binder inside with pockets for cards, keys, reciepts and cash.
I love the idea of having journals for different things but it never works out and I end up abandoning them.
with this layout I can make notes and lists while out without having to remember a seperate notebook.
With a binder you can also add, remove and rearrange pages with different sections and also "folders" (a long piece of paper with "doors" just like a paper document folder)
If anyone would like one but cant find one, you can buy the ring binder "spines" on their own with screws so you can simply find a wallet that suits you and screw in the binder part.
I was part of an adhd workshop/group during grad school and this was something I learned that helped me out so much. Just by categorizing tasks by their priority made me so much more productive and most importantly, not feel so overwhelmed.
It was suddenly okay that I didn’t get to deep clean my kitchen one week because I had school tasks that were much higher priorities. It also helped me figure out what my priorities were in general.
I just heard about this maybe two days ago and I think it's gonna be a game changer for me too.
I was diagnosed with ADHD just a few years ago. I bullet journaled for years, which I love in concept. But I'm no artist. I spent A LOT of time creating my spreads. I switched to a printed quarterly planner instead. I do love my stickers, though. And I love my colorful pens and markers. But it's so much better for me not worrying about trying to create a pretty, IG-worthy spread.
I don’t know if I have ADHD, but my oldest was just recently diagnosed and well… she’s my mini me. I related to everything in this video. Biggest question, what do you do with tasks that you’ve scheduled ahead of time?
For instance, I spent a solid month at the beginning of the year going through the weekly section of my common planner and used sticky notes to plan all the recurring household chores that aren’t in the normal flow of a day. Things like wiping down the vent hood on a monthly basis or running the refresh cycle on the washing machine. Those darn household maintenance things but not chores.
So now, when that week comes up, I read thru the sticky notes, decide if I’m going to have time for those maintenance chores or not, move them to a different week if I need to, or write them down on a master list for the week/month. But then! The master list was starting to give me anxiety cause I’d sit and re-read the master list over and over again trying to decide what I had time for and what could I slot in, instead of just getting one of the things done. That’s when I decided I needed to go way back to the dailies bujo style and write out my entire day step by step.
Example:
Wednesday June 12th
Wake up
Wash face
Oil pull
Start coffee
Brush teeth
Check incubator
Water
Breakfast
Vitamins
And so on. Something about writing out the order the things need to happen in rather than an ambiguous list of “at some point get these things done” list has snapped something in my brain for the better.
It works great for the work day when I’m mostly tethered to my desk, but come the weekend and I was floundering cause so much more of my day is not in front of my list. So I put the reminders app as a widget on my phone and built that same list in my phone which narrowed my entire day of things to do to be a functioning person to an even more narrow “things to do right now in this order”. I’ve been so successful!!!
But! Back to my main question of, what do you do with the things that need to happen later in the week or month, but you can’t just keep migrating them daily?
I relate to what you wrote. What I do is keep them in a postit note that can be moved around. It’s like you said, I have a master mega list of to dos, and then i write a list for every day the night before, considering how much time and energy i will be having. I have a list for what i aim to do on a week in a postit note, so that if i don’t get around to doing it, i can remove it from that page and paste it on the next. I don’t know if i have adhd either, but my sister and i have been noticing that we probably do.
I have always struggled with trying to find WHERE I had written things down that were important. Too many sticky notes, or pieces of scrap paper flying around the house.
So I finally figured out what works for me: I found VERY pretty notebooks/journals, because they make me WANT to use them, and they are easy to spot in my clutter.
AND I have a different one for each area of my life: shopping list, to do list, scouting, gardening, etc...That way I don't have to schlepp my entire life to the grocery store, and don't have to keep flipping through lots of pages to find what I am looking for.
HOWEVER, I agree with you, my "layouts" are super simple, hardly decorative at all. Because 1) I am not that artistic, and 2) it would take me forever to decide how to decorate each page. By then I would have forgotten what I needed to write down.
But I apparently do need the visual and tactile "reward" of handling something pretty to actually use it and FIND it when needed.
I LOVE that idea. I am either TOO creative and I'm afraid to "ruin" my spread with writing or it's completely blank!!!
Yassss. When we pretty plan we use our creative energy and then we struggle to use our productive energy with it. I looove all the gorgeous planners out there. But I just dropped a Hemlock and oak and a PaperTessDesigns for a bullet journal this month 🙃
I doodle sometimes in my bujo but most of the time I respond really well to the monochrome.
Finding a different way to use that creative energy might be key. I want to start junk Journaling and expressive collaging.
I will still use multiples I'm sure though haha.
Hi girl!! And yes, the creative energy has to go somewhere! my planner just isn't the place for it, at least for me. I have to have homes for all my creativity and homes for productivity!
I need color. but it has to be around the functional lists. So I set up my lists then add some flowers or stickers. Or my lists are colored pens. Just can't do black and white.
The colors add a little pizazz for sure!!
I haven't really used the Happy Planner i bought for 2023, so I i just picked up a Tul half letter. I'm planning on keeping it more minimal, but will use some functional stickers.
Love it!! I love my half letter from moving from HP classic! Such a convenient size!
I just got diagnosed with ADHD back in july, almost a year ago, and I have tried what feels like a million kinds of planning systems. I just ordered a new physical planner that I am HOPING will finally be THE *perfect planner* but we will see. Thank you for this video, it was very reassuring about my purchase! I have tried online planning, google and notion, and the way you worded "online planning feels very abstract to me" was just the PERFECT way to describe online planning for me!! I could never put my finger on why it didnt work for me but it is so true!! The online space everything really just "disappears" from your mind the second you aren't looking at a screen, and timer reminders on my phone don't work for me either, they also just disappear into the void or the second I hit "snooze" its gone from my mind. Also not to mention how Notion particularly is SO customizable, to a fault!! I spend more time decorating my Notion page than actually using the planning features 🤣Physical planning really is the only thing that works for me, I just haven't found the *perfect planner* yet, hopefully its the one I just ordered! But long story short it really is just trial and error until you find the perfect system. Thank you for this video it was very validating for me and also helped me put into words my own struggles, thank you! :)
I found that I agree with you on the need to move things around in the planner. I couldn’t make the bullet journal effect work until I actually swapped to rings/disks and then just inserted the bullet journal functions into it and suddenly Boom! It worked for me :)
That's amazing!! I am the same way--it has to be able to move around for my brain to like it!
i love how alive her speaking is :)
Somehow focusing on content punctuated by nervous giggling every few seconds will no doubt be the hardest task i have today.
Everything definitely has to have a home in my adhd mind. I too also noticed that if I focused on making my planner “pretty” I would avoid writing in it bc I didn’t want to mess it up. Great video!
Everything you said about paper vs digital planning 👌🏾
I just don't connect!
I really like the style in which you edit your videos, you don’t cut out filler words or distractions so it feels like I’m just on FaceTime I love it, new subscriber 😊
lol. My name is Kim,I love functional planning and I have ADHD. Glad this came into my timeline.
yay!
This is so chaotic and i’m only 4 min in.😩😂
my life is C H A O S
Same, that's why I use minimalist layouts and avoid using too much unessential color in my layouts. I usually only use colors if I need that thing to pop out at me when I look at it like if I have a bunch of assignments for different classes so I can tell what class it's for automatically by the color and my eyes are drawn to that task. or like only highligting a super important task but in this case for me it has to in the prettiest color ever or it might trigger my demand avoidance.
I can use fun kid stickers for color, but have trouble with so called "functional" stickers. I can not use an undated planner because my handwritten dates make it "not a real planner" 🤣.
They have tons of options for stickers that you can use to re-date or date a plan!
Right! I agree with Ms Victoria Christina that u don't have adhd, u were diagnosed with it. But that doesnt mean u have it. But I just wanted to say I don't have it but yr functional planner is very helpful to me. The pretty stuff takes yr attention & focus away from what u need to do. Thank u. God bless. ❤ and I like how u were so excited abt yr boyfriend using the planner. Lol
I turned my husband onto these disc planners when I purchased a beautiful leather softfolio for him from Levenger in his favorite cognac brown color, with copper discs. (Thank you, Levenger, for having Sales). He reserves that for the things that are most meaningful to him. But the next thing I know, he’s at the local office supply store buying TUL notebooks for himself, and then for all the guys at the office! He uses them for work all the time now! He likes working with graph paper best because he can draw designs for products on them.
I enjoy your personality SO much! You have wonderful energy and enthusiasm! It’s infectious and beautiful.
I think I do a hybrid. Mostly functional but I do add a washi border and a few stickers to keep myself interested in opening the planner and coming back to it. If I did no deco, I wouldn’t reach for it. I enjoyed your video thanks for sharing your layout.
I was diagnosed 2 months ago and I just gotta laugh when I talk with or hear ADHD people speak. We are fast and super numerous at how nutty we are. I laughed alot and I mean in a positive way as I can kinda hear ADHD and looking at your organiser and it's just like how so many of us apeak
It's hard to explain, but I get the point when you need structure, but also flexibility (e.g. planner with pages that you can rearrange)
Oh my goodness, you are so funny!!!! You are on point with everything you say!! You are so real and incredibly funny. 😆 😅You’re talking about me with the sticker distractions, too funny. Though I love junk journaling ephemera for decorating my planner pages. Thanks for sharing 😊, Arlene
This is how I plan. This is the first time I have seen someone do the same . I don't know if I have ADHD,.
I have to keep reminding myself not to buy a planner. I get too fussy about where I should write things. I often run out of space, which makes me not want to write the things that are on my mind. Even with free space, I'm afraid to write anything because I'm afraid that later I'll think of something else that I should've used the space for.
I kind of bullet journal, now. I used to carry my journal back and forth from work, but my back started hurting because I carry a lot of stuff, and my husband requested that I stop carrying a backpack. Now, I keep a little notebook to write in on the go. The plan was to move things from the small notebook into my bullet journal, but I haven't. I've only opened my bullet journal like 2 times this week. Tbh I do best with the small notebook for everything approach, but I really want to be an artsy bullet journal girl 😭. I still use the bullet journal method in my pocket notebooks, but they're not pretty!
Just found your videos and I love them. I also really enjoy the sound of the paper you're using. :)
Yay, thank you! I use a Bristol paper--it's what comes with the planner!! Super crisp and weighty!!
I am not diagnosed but the algorithm recommended me this video for a reason, and honestly I loved it. I don’t use planners to actually plan my day, I find that I cannot keep track of everything so it makes me just not. I am definitely an all or nothing kinda girl and it’s prolly not a good thing. If I can’t track everything I’m just going to suffer and track nothing 😂 but I do want to do more during my day and get more things done, so I think I’m going to have to give it a shot, everything you said just said “me! Me! Me!”
Especially going down rabbit holes we don’t need to go down- I think one time I got so distracted I was looking at one of my favorite actors biography just because I wanted to see if he voiced a character in a movie. 😂😂😂
Anyway, thank you for the video!
Thank you so much for watching! This video is a year old, but I'm so happy it resonates with people!
I need a planner to remind me that i have a planner and i actually wrote stuff down in it!!! Then i need a planner to remind me where i put the thing ...
I am recommending this to my patients with ADHD. Thank you.
It won't help those ADHDers who are the opposite of this. I need to make my pages pretty or I won't fill them in. I'll write something on a plain page and never look at it again. I just make my pages in advance with washi tape etc and fill in the functional stuff after.
What a great point! And thank you, @chicanina64. I am hoping to get a newer video that's clearer up soon!
OMG, I’m ready to be your friend. You remind me so much of myself
heheh loved those scrapbooking parties with my mom too and I’ve been wanting to figure out what to do with all my notes that I’ve collected over the years & scrapbooking or collage has been in the back of my mind but I also wonder if anyone collages anymore lol?
I love your adhd content.
I also can’t do stickers either. The entire spread becomes a habitat for the monkey and I probably won’t get a single thing on the list then sticker hahaha
Creative Memories parties were the best!! Stickers are a gateway drug to losing focus for me 🤣
I have adhd and about 110 day planner/journals/post it’s /dry erase boards etc etc you name it I’ve tried it and I’m really bad at consistently makes lists and planners and always forget to make the list or stay on track with lists or day planning- it’s a struggle -I’ve gotten a little better at work and for school but it’s been years go trying hard to pick up lists and planning a habit and something I do consistently
this is exactly like my planner appears to be!
Just a heads up that your link (in the TH-cam description) is bad. I was able to find your store on Google, but it took a bit of hunting.
Hi! Thank you!!!! I fixed it :) I changed domains!
Oh my goodness! I'm not diagnosed but I struggle between fancy and functional. Also struggle with motivation and follow through.
Thank you, this is tremendously helpful
So true!
You're so welcome, thank you so much for watching!!!
I always write my day out with times.i write everything. For example ill start with 6am wake up
6:15 hygene +list all parts of hygene routine
6:30 make bed
So on and so forth for the entire day.
I usually organize my tasks by priority and dofficulty with the most difficult in the early part of the day and the least difficult when im more likely to be tired.
The highlighters to me says this is done, I make my list for the day and I highlife them as I get them done, stickers are sooo distracting to me.
Finally someone that plans and organizes like me
Heyo!! We're here!!!
I am just not into the idea of sitting for a while to decorate calendar pages. I love it when other people do it. Yes, stickers are distracting, and planning how they fit together cohesively and in a logic spatial order would take too long with ADHD.
I'm not diagnosed with ADHD, but I find it hard to focus if I use more than 2 pen colors. My planner is designed to be practical and functional.
Completely get that! Everyone works differently! :)
The whole intro is ADHD. by definition lol
Here to represent!
I see stickers and then immediately leave my task to buy more sticker.
same!! haha
Hey where did you get that book. I didn't see it the website?
Hey guys another gentle reminder: While it is important to seek professional advice and a proper clinical diagnosis before making serious medical changes to your life, such as pills or other extensive treatments, this can take time.
While you are waiting for getting your diagnosis, it certainly won't do you harm to experiment with strategies to get things done and improve on your time management and well-being. Because you don't need to have ADD or ADHD to do that.
Don't let perfectionism lure you into inaction.
This helps me so much ! Thanks!
I'm so glad! Thank you for watching!!
I have never been diagnosed but I realized that stickers are way to distracting. I am 47 just so FYI
Yes, sometimes they just take away from the content!!! Thank you for watching, Dorothea!!
I'm also 47 and got diagnosed this year. It's been really helpful, fyi, if you're thinking of getting a diagnosis.
Where do I buy this printable or planner?
WARNING: The video is just a 24 minutes advertisement about a plain planner.
I just love bullets and hierarchies. I hate wordy lists and planners that look like scrapbooks it’s overly stimulating. I don’t know why but it always has to be neat and crisp with minimal erasures, etc. 🙄
Oh my gosh same!!! I love me a good list and subtask :)
what is this notebook it’s perfect ?
this is a really neat planner, where could i purchase one?
I'll be openeing my shop again in September!!
0,7 uniball writes ,ike that because it dried up a bit
Hi, I was wondering if you sell this planner in A5 size? :) x
Hi!! I do-I’ll add the option to the website! It’ll be live within an hour!
I can’t seem to find the planner you use with the disk, can you show me? Thanks
It's one that I had created! I don't have them for sale anymore, though!
Bold of you to assume that a person with ADHD has the patience to watch a 24 minute video. I'm watching at 2.15x speed and still didn't make it past 6 minutes
I'm the ADHD that won't use a plain planner. Everything just becomes a blob and stickers help direct my eyes. I have to make the page attractive or I won't use it
GOD those hands are beautiful
This made my WHOLE DAY. thank you, kind stranger. 🤍
@@adhdoneplans lol i am glad,
Tbh i was worried it might come off as creepy
Do you still sell this planner???
I will be reopening my new shop again soon!! September is the target :)
I allow myself 1 Sticker per week - not more - otherwise I get distracted. You have to find out what works for you.
the link in the description to your website seems strange, my computer says it's not secure, and it doesn't look like a normal website - is this the most recent link you have, or can it be updated? maybe it's because i'm not in the same country as you or something 🤔
Hi! I fixed it :) I changed domains!
The website doesn't work for me, I'm no sure if it's because I'm from Brazil, but it's unsual.
Hi! I fixed it :) I changed domains!
@@adhdoneplans thank you!
Now i wanna see your boyfriend's notebook...
But I hate my planner. I’d love to have something that is best for non-neurotypical people
Video kinda starts at 1:00 Way too scattered though. My ADHD brain hates this :(
No need to watch then!
05:50 This is a sign that you should marry him ;)
There was a lot of nonsensical rambling before getting to the point. Plus there's little defined structure to the video. Such is the downside of watching videos from ppl who actually have ADD themselves. Ironically the noisiness of their mind gets in the way of their video being helpful for viewers with ADD.
Perhaps watch a more recent video where there’s less “nonsensical rambling” for you to suffer through.
Lots of Luna slander going on in this video. 🤨😛😉 (#teamLuna 🐾) ❤
She says "thank you!" and gives lots of snuggles and kisses!!!
YOU MADE A 23 MINUTE LONG VIDEO FOR PEOPLE WITH ADHD, AND YOU THINK WE'RE GONNA **WATCH** IT?!?!?!?
❤🎉
Why am I here? Does the algorithm know something?
the Al Gore Rhythm knows all.
Anyone else watch this on 1.5x speed???
my brain is on 1.5x speed
Anyone else listening at 2 x speed or just me? 😅
my brain functions at 2x speed
Umm she has adhd 4r sure starting 4rm dog barking 2bandaid reason
i 4sure do
Thanks! Little hard to follow though, with all the tangents... try concise :)
Yep, this video is over a year old! I definitely tightened up. But we all have to start somewhere, right?
Please get medical help your finger might be broken.
This video is over a year old and you were totally right!! It was broken!!! Thank you so much for your concern! It means a lot.
@@adhdoneplans oh phew glad you are OK. Been there. That's how I knew. 💙 ❤️🩹💝💖❤
This video should have been edited down to 5 minutes, I don't tend to complain online, but as an ADD person, this is very ADD/ADHD, UNFRIENDLY. Plus 12 minutes in there was nothing about "functional plan". It takes 15 seconds to say that you don't need stickers cause they are distracting, but she talks about it for 2 minutes and then how proud she is of her boyfriend? Annoying to just hear someone else's ADD difficulties instead of sharing actual useful knowledge. I already live with this every day. I am sure you are a wonderful person, but know your audience also.
Thanks for your feedback. I'm aware. This is over a year old.
My ADHD couldn't tolerate the babble at the beginning. Anyone have timestamp for the useful bits?
Yep!!
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This is really helpful, thank you!!
Though one thing was a problem for me and that was the dog whining, it was very distracting and sometimes even painful with my noise sensitivity 🫣
I did all I could in a studio apartment, sorry. This video is a year old and no longer an issue in my newer videos!
@@adhdoneplans Good to know, thank you! I'll make sure to check out some newer videos.
Bujo didn't work for me because I need to have my planner already set up, if I have to do it from scratch, it adds an extra step to time management, and that is so frustrating, also the thing that I feel like having to make it pretty, instead of functional... is time wasting. Also, if I don't have any cue of what I have to write down, I get lost, I don't know what to do with it. So those are all the problems I have with bujo
That's exactly the problem that I have and why I can't get started
Might recommend the hobonichi weeks. It's small and minimally set up already (the dates are there) each page has the dates for the week, and enough room to write down only the important stuff like work, event, and a chore or two. And the left side is dot paper so if you do need extra space you have it but you don't have to do anything to it if you don't need it or get overwhelmed. I use the side page for grocery lists so I don't overspend at the store and placing stickers because if the page doesn't look nice in some way I won't use it. It's the perfect size to write things but not so big that you feel the need to fill it up completely. So you feel like you accomplishing more since your only seeing the essentials.
@@demonheart13 brilliant!! I instinctively loved the Hobo weeks, but couldn't quite figure out how to actually use it!.
I make little templates on my computer and print out stickers so I don't fuss. Like every week I do my budgeting. So if I just print it - I can stick in. And I just buy lots of stickers so I don't spend time doodling. So I get the pretty factor my brain craves without having to use my own energy lol.
Same
Digital planning doesn’t help me I need to see it in my face all day with no screen saver or having to zoom in and out . My brain just doesn’t like it.
Exactly!!!
My brain tells me to forget everything I just read in a digital planner every 5 seconds. I need physical too with colors.
Digital planners are fantastic when you’re buying the new app! 😂 Then they’re completely useless. 😢
Just like regular planners 🤣🤣🤣 I get all hyped at first, then lose motivation with all of them @@neuroticnation144
I made a widget for my home screen on my phone. It's my Google calendar, and shows my upcoming appointments, tasks, work shifts, for a couple of days. It's been a lifesaver!
You are so scattered and all over the place. I see … a reflection. That’s just how we are. Drives others nuts but for us it’s just natural.
ha! I am. And this video is a year old, so I've definitely tightened up my filming and talking now!
yeah its so annoying ngl maybe i am not adhd afterall xd
@@adhdoneplansyou tried your best girlie 💪 ik It's difficult to be on camera and talk your heart comfortably . It's just a very nice start . I saw you've improved and is MUCH better even GREAT at this. Thankyou for not deleting this. You know you've achieved something 🎉 keep going girl . 😊
I do not have ADHD but I love Kimberly's style. I do like habit trackers, in fact I depend on them for health reasons. I truly don't think you have to have ADHD to appreciate her planning style and use them. Thank you for sharing.....
Oh gosh, Helen, thank you so much!!! I am working on the trackers you suggested and I can't WAIT to show them!!!
@@adhdoneplans Aaaawwww, I am so excited to see what you come up with, you are very creative like that. Your unique style of planning, I am sure, has helped so many. I do not have ADHD but I do have several health issues, and your planning style has helped me a great deal. Thank you, I appreciate what you are doing.
I’m not finished with your video yet, but this year and the end of 2023 I was functional planning and I got more done than ever. When I was “pretty planning,” I would look at my to-do list and if it didn’t look “aesthetic” or “pretty” I didn’t want to look at it or plan lol and you can obviously guess how that went. I also have ADHD and now that I am just focusing more on keeping things organized and functional, I am less worried about what the spreads look like and more worried about actually getting things done.
I found that I didn't even plan if I didn't start at the beginning of the week, or if I put the stickers in the right spot. Now I have more than one planner, and allow myself to use whichever one feels right. But my work and things that NEED to get done are not decorated (until maybe after the fact).
I get that! I was always afraid to "mess up" my spread with tasks 🤣
Overdoing stickers make me feel sick and nauseous. I saw my coworkers journal and it was covered with stickers. All i could think about was closing the damn thing!
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Haha!!
I have ADHD and I have a functional pretty planner if that’s a thing 😂 I pre decorate pages when I need a break from a current task. I also use icon stickers to make sure I pay attention to current tasks. I’m a color coder, I don’t list because I will not pay attention to it so icon stickers are a go to for me as well as flag stickers. I took a longggg time finding what would work for me. Also I track everything in my planner. Rings a5 is my jam for now