Cognitive AI for ADHD
I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication.<p>My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don&#x27;t have, and ignores the ones I do have.<p>Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I&#x27;m also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don&#x27;t need that. I have her.<p>The trick for me is that it is important that my life be organized around engaging with things that I want to do. And thereby having my wants reinforce executive control so that I can do what I think that I should. This involves a lot of managing of my emotional state, and a lot of REJECTING of outside demands by the world that I conform to how the world wants me to be. I see nothing about this app that helps me do either thing.<p>Yes, yes, I know the idea of eliminating distractions so that I can focus. Honestly, that&#x27;s crap that leads to disasters every time I try it. If I have positive motivations to do X, distractions are easy to set aside. If motivations are negative, I will be unable to resist creating distractions. And a straightjacket that prevents that leads to insanity.<p>Which returns me to my point. The key, for me, in handling ADHD is emotional tools to find positive motivations, and social tools to resist the world attempting to load me with tasks through negative motivations.