Hey all! I’m a software developer that was diagnosed with ADHD a few months ago.
My productivity went to complete shit during Covid and hasn’t recovered. Part of the issue is that I’ve learned body doubling is one of the most effective ways for me to get stuff done. And, unfortunately for me, no one has wanted to come back into the office. I’ve tried setting reminders for myself to get routine-but-not-daily tasks done, but those only worked for a couple weeks. Pomodoro timers the same.
Anyone have any tips for being more productive at work? Ideally oriented toward software development, but I’ll take anything.
From what you write you struggle with organizing your work and remembering deadlines and tasks. Is that the main part? How or why have reminders failed you? I have set automated recurring timers for recurring tasks and it helps me immensely. I also write schedules and to do lists and such which works a little bit.
Or do you also struggle with the ‘actually doing the thing’ when you remember it? I got less tips for that.
Unfortunately, it’s usually struggling with “actually doing the thing”.
I’m lucky that my reminders have worked for the things I consistently actually forget, haha.