A year ago, I discovered I have ADHD. Suddenly, everything fell into place. I've had many hobbies, projects, and ideas throughout my life, but I've rarely completed or stuck with them for long. I'm still working to develop a system that allows me to explore while helping me complete tasks over time.
I've thought about using medication but I don't want to depend on it for productivity. I'm curious, has it significantly changed things for any of you?
Apple Maps for 90% of my trips, though that’ll be 100% with iOS 17 and offline maps.
The voice prompts are so much better in Apple Maps. I feel comfortable in an unknown area, and that’s important to me.
Awesome, happy I could help!
Reminders with smart lists is great.
It’s hard when it starts at such a young age. I had it at home, church, and school. I didn’t start to change my thinking until my mid thirties, and even then it was painful because your entire reality starts to shatter.
They are listening; that's the problem. I've disconnected from almost my entire family because Trump has reached Dear Leader status with them, and you can't have a normal conversation anymore without insane levels of hate and nonsense being injected into the conversation.
The people at this level aren't living in reality. They like what they hear.
I was ignorant enough to support this kind of crap when I was younger. It's never too late to turn your life around; please stop voting for these people.
If you create the reminder within a smart list, it will automatically add the tag of that list to the item.
Example: I have three priority lists. If I tap/select the low priority list and make a new reminder, it will auto populate the tag for low priority.
This works with Siri as well.
“Hey Siri, add ______ to my high priority list” Siri will then add the reminder with the high priority tag associated with that list.
I hope that helps!
Spark is the only way I can effectively handle email at this point.
That's a fair question.
I’m tech agnostic; whatever fits my need is what I use, and I can easily change devices and operating systems without skipping a beat. My entire family and nearly all of my circle are in the Apple ecosystem; it just makes it easier to communicate and keep tabs on my parents. For those that aren't using iMessage, Signal is the preferred app.
I still use Android for work, but the only thing I miss about Android is notifications. Apple can’t seem to get notifications right.
The only time it’s an issue for me is when the other person isn’t willing to message me on another app instead of trying to use SMS. I get horrible cell service where I live and my only options are iMessage or an app like Signal /WhatsApp/Messenger.
So this is when adding someone with an Android to a group conversation that was taking place using iMessage can cause some irritation.
That’s been my experience as well. Reporting them does nothing, but if you call them out on their BS, Facebook suspends you.
As long as hate drives engagement, this will never change.
I used to get sucked into finding new tools to help me be more productive, but keeping it simple and visible works for me.
I use Apple Reminders and leverage their smart tags to break tasks down by how long they’ll take, how much effort, and when they need to be done. I keep Reminders open on my iPad so I can always see it, and when I have 15 minutes to kill, I select a 15-minute or less task and knock it out. It works for me, and my whole family can add to it, so I never forget to do something.