This sounds good, but I am a Firefox user. The page does not really highlight a sufficient number of features. I would like automatic reminders more than anything, though.
Cognitive AI for ADHD
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen that first video before. He does fine until he starts spouting dogma about what all interventions must look like. That part is BS. BY FAR the most effective intervention that I've seen for ADHD in children is https://www.cdc.uci.edu/ . It does none of what he claims you need to do. And it routinely takes people who can't perform in a normal classroom, and turns them into people who can. I just watched a bit…
Can you be more specific about what you do?
Not in a comment, sorry.
I could write a book, and it would still feel vague. And what I do for myself, isn't going to work the same way for you.
I will say that my path involved a lot of work on self-honesty. A lot of work on body awareness. (A lot of emotions show up in your body.) A lot of work on building empathy and gratitude. Meditation played more than a small role.
All of that just to get to the point where I'm aware of what I need to be aware of to start finding what works for me.
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#143I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'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't need that. I ha…
my number one problem is motivation and number two problem is forgetfullness. The forgetfullness part is something I have been working on recently, using stuff like Alexa. I don't see any app ever solving that. I could use a pen and paper for this stuff and I am also seeking a therapist to talk to (had one before but had a negative experience)
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#144As I always ask on these types of posts: since you're proposing a product to help treat a medical condition, have you conducted a clinical trial?
Why not?
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#145The first thing I look for when I see a new app in the cognitive space is the privacy policy. Here it is in its entirety ( https://www.comigo.ai/privacy ): * Information We Collect: We collect information you provide when you register for our Service, including your Google account data. This data includes, but is not limited to, your name and email address. * Use of Information: We use this information to personalize…
This policy says very little about what happens to the chat logs. In particular: will other humans (e.g. developers, analysts, etc.) have access to them? If so, I wouldn't trust it with anything.
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#146Honestly, this app feels like it was built by people that aren't by ADHD themselves, so they are targeting the wrong customer audience. I don't want to be rude, but it looks like it doesn't understand at all what stresses out ADHD people (at least from my perspective).
As a primer: What stresses me out during the day:
- reminders are useless, they lead to hyperfocus state and I cannot get shit done or focus on anything else before
- calendar events are useless, in work life I try to have external dependent events as early in the morning as possible and hope the best to have enough energy afterwards
- social events, even scrum video sync calls are draining energy, because rasterizing people's emotions is very hard. Especially in open office spaces, which is the reason why I am never in those.
- if I am in an emotional state that does not allow me to work (mad/sad/bored/angry/overwhelmed), I need to find motivation to work with little and easy to fulfill tasks that have a low complexity in the scrum sense. Quick bug fixes, documentation tasks, writing tests etc.
- if I am in an emotional state where I can focus (happy/excited/motivated/calm/focussed/hyperfocussed), I don't want to be distracted by anything else. I am usually listening to music without vocals because of that, because vocals, alerts and notifications are distracting. This app/extension does not respect that, and adds more to the sea of noise.
The reason I use VIM as an editor for more than 20 years, and around 10 years together with i3 is mostly because of notifications. GNOME 3 got better for that, but blinking windows and notification bubbles on systray icons are still notifications, and are still distracting, so I made my choice to move away from GNOME to i3 because of that.
With my current setup, I have zero notifications - for better or worse. The only app I allow in the systray is OpenSnitch (my firewall), anything else is not allowed to have a systray or background-running process. I avoid electron apps like the plague because of that, and I wrote helper scripts that automatically kill those apps when I close their windows. I even tried to submit a PR to upstream electron because of it, but nobody seems to care about this issue and they deleted it.
A lot of electron apps enforce their UI decisions upon to you, which means that the UI frameworks, if not allowed to run in systray, render shitty toasts on the active screen - even when they are on another virtual screen. So yeah, the UX of "modern apps" is horrible from my point of view, because they keep ignoring my decisions to not want notifications. This includes Thunderbird, Slack, Mattermost, Discord and especially everything from Microsoft, like Outlook, Office or Teams.
I cannot use Windows or MacOS because there's literally hundreds of notifications, popups and dialogs that interrupt my workflow. In every single UI, from IDEs to even the goddamn GPU drivers that offer me promos, now even in the Start Menu. WTF.
At some point I tried to build a task planning app for myself to overcome mentioned issues with hyperfocus and external dependencies. I got it into a somewhat working state, but am out of ideas on how to make it more usable across multiple devices without having to have to host a web service that could add pitfalls. Would love to hear feedback if others like the idea, too. [1]
Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD
#147I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'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't need that. I ha…
Do you struggle more on days where you don't sleep enough? I find that on 9hrs of sleep, I'm able to manage my focus, but any less and it's a waste of a day.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
In reading your replies.. you've got it straight, from another long time ADHDer. Tools are useful in as much as they help you control your attention. The only ones I've found truly useful are ER4SRs. (In ear monitors, -35DB to the environment. I listen to music while I work, at ~70DB. If you do the math about the only thing I can hear is a fire alarm... and that's about right. :) )
If you ever wanna go wireless, I find my WF-1000XM4s to be slightly more effective, and it's easier to turn off the isolation.
Have you tried the ER4s? I own both and find the ER4s much more isolating (and for me, as a mainly classical listener, a bunch cleaner sound).
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but is prescribed off-label as an ADHD med Guanfacine is approved to treat ADHD in the United States and several other countries. Technically, extended-release Guanfacine is approved because that's what was used in the trials. The brand name is Intuniv and the generic is Guanfacine ER. The generic guanfacine (non-ER) can also be used, though technically off label. The only difference is that it must be dosed twice…
Can Guanfacine be taken pro re nata like stimulants? If so, how long is the duration on average? One reason I have never considered the blood pressure medications is because, and correct me if I am wrong, if one takes them too consistently for too long, then sudden cessation can be dangerous and/or deadly. > The non-stimulant medications are very good Define very good. From what I have gathered during my browsing of…
I’m on guanfacine and I’ve ceased it several times without issue. (Due to running out) It’s discouraged but my understanding from researching it is that’s more as a precaution. The bp drop from ceasing is rarely dangerous.
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#150I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'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't need that. I ha…
> but I don't need that. I have her.
Good for you. Not everyone is that lucky though.