Hi, I just bought an IPOD. I am looking for apps that will help me stay organized. I will try it out for you if you still require some people to do so.

Also, since you are a techy, may I ask if you know of a good calendar, contact list etc. that I can edit on the computer will also show up on my IPODD. Especially when you are first imputting all the information its alot faster to do it on the computer. Hope this makes sense.!

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Fabián De Simone; I would be glad to help you develop tools for us ADHD adults. I am a mother of 2 with ADHD, my son has multiple mental disabilites. I and my spouse also have ADHD and I struggle to maintain, I can never find that right tool to hellp me maintain life. I am disabled due to my mental health, so I can not afford expensive techonolgy, but have researched since my childrens diagnosis for method, tools, etc. So I got 19 yrs of dealing with this under my belt. So please count me in. I am desperate and feeling lost.

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Chrysalis68 said: Hi, I just bought an IPOD. I am looking for apps that will help me stay organized. I will try it out for you if you still require some people to do so.

Also, since you are a techy, may I ask if you know of a good calendar, contact list etc. that I can edit on the computer will also show up on my IPODD. Especially when you are first imputting all the information its alot faster to do it on the computer. Hope this makes sense.!

Hi, thanks for your message! WHen we have something you can test, for sure I would like you to give it a spin!

About the IPOD: What type of computer do you have: PC or MAC? This will help me a lot giving you the best answer :)

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BamaEnergy4 said: I would be glad to help you develop tools for us ADHD adults. I am a mother of 2 with ADHD, my son has multiple mental disabilites. I and my spouse also have ADHD and I struggle to maintain, I can never find that right tool to hellp me maintain life. I am disabled due to my mental health, so I can not afford expensive techonolgy, but have researched since my childrens diagnosis for method, tools, etc. So I got 19 yrs of dealing with this under my belt. So please count me in. I am desperate and feeling lost.

Hi Bama, This post has inspired me even more! I can feel what you are going trough. Your experience is going to be invaluable for this project. I guarantee you we will develop a tool that is going to make our life easier. The process of building something like this is a beautiful one and I'm sure it will help in your feeling desperate and lost. I'm not sure what it is, but it has help me a lot!

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Hi everyone,

Thanks for the response. It has been amazing!

A lot of people have subscribe to the mailing list so far. If you would still like to subscribe please do so. I'll be closing the registration for volunteers on February 21st. After that I'll send our first message and the process will begin!

This is going to be fantastic!

Thank you :)

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Hello I am a 33 yr old mother of 4 children, of which myself and 2 of them are blesses with ADD. With me going to school, all the activities for the kids school, plus trying to begin a business and keep up with my fiance who is not curently able to live with us yet. There is absolutely nothing that has worked for us yet. We have tried alot of things but none cover everything or are versatile enough. . I am so excited to help with this.

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valerie said: Hello I am a 33 yr old mother of 4 children, of which myself and 2 of them are blesses with ADD. With me going to school, all the activities for the kids school, plus trying to begin a business and keep up with my fiance who is not curently able to live with us yet. There is absolutely nothing that has worked for us yet. We have tried alot of things but none cover everything or are versatile enough. . I am so excited to help with this.

Hello Valerie! Wow, you have a lot going on! That is awesome :-)

I feel the same way. I have around 3 projects, newly wed, jut moved to another country and a long list of etcs and I haven't found the right solution yet. That is why we are GOING TO BUILD IT! Yes we are :)

I'm so glad you are on board. You guys are going to love this!

Please, if you know more people that might be interested please let them know they can subscribe to the list until the 21st. After that is Go time!

See you guys! :-D

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I'm so glad someone wants to do this! I wanted to try designing my own app, but I lack the programming skills (and Mac). Still, I'd love to jump on board. Let me know how you need help and I'll let you know if I'm able. :)

So my post is super long because I'm a ridiculously long-winded person. It started as some ideas, but then expanded into some personal theorizing about the "right" ways and "wrong" ways to think about and, ultimately, manage time. Hopefully, this helps give you ideas about ways to design a time management app.

Ultimately, the best planning system is just one that displays your necessary schedule/task information in such a way that you can quickly judge how to manage your time and can be easily maintained. If you're not getting the information you need right away or it isn't intuitive enough to keep maintained, then the system is useless.

I'm a visual person, and my coach has helped me figure out that visualizing time is the best method for time management. I found it's just not possible to visualize my schedule the way I need with the 99.9% of the apps on the market. All the Apple calendar apps have only daily and monthly views -- Horrible! I don't use a calendar very often (my life consists of mainly classes). Either way, the small details of my life exist in the weekly format. For some people, it's daily. Either way having a calendar doesn't do you much good if it's only presenting the info in a format that's useless.

I'm more of a task list person since my schedule is so regular. The tasks lists are usually either too open ended or too constrained. They usually just treat your tasks like a grocery store checklist where each thing is an object rather. In fact, tasks are segments of time that have to be appropriated somewhere.

So just like events, it helps if you can visualize how tasks relate to each other within time and how they're purposes differ. For me, I organize my classes into different colors and put the assignment on its due date. That way I can see how my work for one class relates to the others and how my work for one day relates to the others. Checklists suck at this. They give you a list with maybe a tag for the due date and a label for the class, but those numbers are deceptive. They TELL, instead of SHOW. They put more importance on the what instead of the when. I think that many people don't have trouble, but with ADHD, it's harder to see the relationship of time.

With more visual based applications (like notetaking apps or post-it apps), you get the ability to position tasks in relation to each other and time, but it's difficult to retrieve the information when you need it. When I did used a post-it app, I ended up just having piles of virtual post-its sorted by day, but it was too hard to maintain a "secondary organization" within those piles. Again, maybe this method works for some people, but with ADHD, we have trouble maintaining structure. We can lay down the proper foundation, but we need our technology to maintain the structure.

I also love colors and sounds!!!! Alarms are good because they can keep track of time for us so we can focus on doing what we need to get done. I also said that sorting your tasks by common purpose is important (duh). We're humans, we have color vision for a reason. Why more apps don't have color, I'll never understand. Having masses of text is not easy to sift through. Having colors makes distinguishing between different groups of events/tasks much easier. The more of your brain you have processing information, the better you're able to understand and interpret it.

One of my favorite aspects of using technology is the ability to see different layers of information. You can see only the necessary details in the big picture but then focus in on the smaller ones without using extra space or effort. With ADHD, all you have to do is input the info once and the technology keeps it structured and all contained in one place. Since those layers condense information, you have to make both the big picture and small details equally accessible.

Reducing resistance so users can access their information is the hardest part. The app has be designed so that it can fit the natural habits of different people. The features for a schedule app are pretty standard, but when I was trying out a bunch of apps, I realized my first priority was the ability to organize the info the way I wanted (visualized rather than list style). My second was how intuitive it was to input and retrieve information. what I've noticed makes the difference is how users can customize different navigational elements to better access what they need. My favorite app allowed you to organize your tasks by due date, priority, class, type of assignment, etc. Ultimately, I didn't like the list formatting, but they let me customize the application to fit me. I love the visual organizational scheme for the one I'm using now, but I don't like how it's pretty difficult to navigate. I can't customize it in the ways that would best benefit me, but it still has lots of superfluous crap that I want to hide. In my mind if I don't need it then I want a way to disable it (I'm a little anal about formatting) -- the extra stuff just clutters and distracts from whats important.

Last thought, I also hate typing on my iPod. It's too crammed. Being able to import data from another place would make filling in new tasks or events easier.

So to sum it up:

Visualization of data (date, importance, group) Comprehensive view of how time is being organized Seeing how small details fit in with a bigger picture Simple and intuitive Colors and sounds Customizable Sync up to outside application

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I for one am a tech freak and purchased an Android smartphone only to find that its not really that smart when it comes to "task management" and reminders. It's interesting tho, I rarely use the task manager in MS Outlook on the PC but I'm sure I'll use it on the phone. I am also a person that has the ability to break systems.... and I'm late :)

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Just thought I would post and ask how the development is going? I have only been recently diagnosed with ADHD at 26yrs old and am really struggling with two young kids to get on top of things.

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Count me inn, please.

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Faborito said: Hi everyone,

I was diagnosed with ADD about a year ago. I'm 30 years old and my ADD diagnosis actually explained a lot :-)

I'm a technology entrepreneur with quite a few developments under my belt (I'm basically a complete geek)

After my diagnosis I started looking for ways to help me manage my ADD better, but I soon found out, technology is not helping us out at all! Actually is very confusing and distracting.

I for one, would like to change that. I want to build an application for people with ADD (or ADHD) created by people that have ADD (or ADHD) that would make our life EASIER and build something we can actually rely on and trust.

For this I need volunteers that would like to participate in this process. Is not an overnight thing as it takes time and money and there are quite a few steps we must follow in order to have something working. Most likely it would take a couple of months.

If you are wondering was in it for you if you volunteer, that a very good question! Most likely a commercial application will come out of this. Every participant will get the app for FREE once is done! (That's the best I can do. I'm on a limited budget :-) )

I hope this is something that interests the community and I hope you come along for this ride, as is an intense one let me tell you (building technology services or applications). At least it will be entertaining and educational :-)

If you will like to participate, please go to this link and enter your name and email:

http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/s.php?g=ff79aa9f

I give you my word and guarantee: I won't spam you. This is my mailing list were I'll keep everyone posted when the process starts and is the channel of communication to ask for your input and ideas!

Thanks so much, Fabián.

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I am a working mom of two boys and have been diagnosed for 3 years. I have found it hard to be diagnosed so much later then some people, even though in my opinion I am text book for women with ADD. Anyway- I would love to see some sort of app that would allow us to make to do list that automatically move to the next day if they arent checked off the first day. It shoud also have some kind of reminder system and the ability to mark a due date on the to-do lists. This way when the thought enters my head I can put it into the app, give it a due date and not worry about forgetting it 30 seconds later. Which also gives me the idea that maybe it should be speech to text. That would be AWESOME!! Probally by this point your app is almost done, but I wanted to give you my input for what I would like to see.

This may seem like an oxymoron to most people on here but I am a corporate meeting organizer. I am excellent at my job because I dont function well with only one task at a time, however I need something that I can enter all the stuff I have to do into it and then have something (besides my boss) gently remind me to either finish up or move on.

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According to his profile, Faborito hasn't been on the site since the end of February. I had designed an application that some people just got and were totally on board with and others looked at me like "I don't get it". My friends in college used to call me "non-sequitur" man because I would detatch from a conversation, following my own train of thoughts, and come back a few minutes later with a statement that left them wondering what the hell that had to do with the conversation at hand.

I started modelling an application that allowed me to follow my stream of consciousness (and called it Flow). The first example was of a web browser that tracks not just the sites I visited but also shows the trail of how I got there. This was before I realized that I had ADD. I noticed a trend among the people who really understood the concepts of my project and were very excited about it. They all mentioned that they end the day with a tangle of browser windows (or tabs) open and really had difficulty tracking down how they got to certain pages (I'd suspect they were blessed with ADD as well).

Recently, I learned of a software development process called Lean where essentially instead of taking a shot in the dark about what my customers would want, I validate frequently that the software I'm building is what they really need. I'm starting from scratch on this project and want to find people interested in trying out the software. Some of my initial thoughts:

--It will be web-based. --I will create customized versions of the application for various devices (iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile) and for Windows and Mac Desktops. --You will be able to synchronize your data between your devices and the web --You will be able to share your task lists with others (even work on larger tasks as part of a project/team) --It will support multiple methods of organizing/prioritizing tasks so that you can choose which works best for you (Getting Things Done, Pomodoro, Covey, etc.) --Positive feedback...I think for me, seeing results encourages me to keep on with what I'm doing.

Anyway, the software (and initial survey) isn't quite ready for people to look at just yet. But I'll follow up here when I've got something to show.

--Mike

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I just found this "Developing our own ADD application" thread, looks like it took place back in February. It is now August 2010. Just wondering how the development of the application is coming along. Oops...just read to the bottom and saw M. Dizzy's post re: his application. Will keep checking back to see updates.

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I was just going to post a similar type of thread as I have about 4 ideas for applications that would be targeted to ADDers (potentially adults or children, depending on the idea). I was a little let down that he had already done this, but after signing up for the list, I caught the date on the posting.

SO I'll be posting my own ideas soon, with a survey link, to try and see if others would find my ideas useful or not.

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Hi Everyone,

I had to close the project. Due to personal reasons, I don't have the time or resources to go ahead with this right now.

To others that are creating applications, please contact me via private message, so I can give you all the info I had on the project until now, so you might go forward with it on your own personal project.

Sorry for the inconvenience guys.

F.

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