ADHD-resistant sticky note that changes color and font often to not disappear
crazypython.github.io
crazypython.github.io
I also started a new medication a week ago. So right now I’m near my worst.
Concept is interesting.
Page doesn’t seem to do anything after typing stuff in.
The washer is going at moment. About 3 cycles per second.
Cars are driving by at about 1 every 10 seconds. 2 cars at a time catch my interest everything.
Grey dog outside.
Shoes are on the floor.
I have many doodles going on the note book next to me.
I have gotten some work to day. But it’s scattered.
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My mind is annoying. Like 3 year old at toys r us, and your supposed to finish math assignment in the LEGO aisle.
This page still hasn’t done anything
But you gotta admit sometimes it's a really fascinating place in there.
Shouldn't that be configurable? It seems like "catches your attention very frequently like a distraction" is actually not the right behavior for this. Seems like the goal should be to call attention to itself just enough so the notes aren't forgotten and are brought to mind to be started during a distracted moment.
I like the idea, but probably won't use it because it's not a desktop app. Some random ideas:
1. Color changing is a good idea. Kinda skeptical about the font mattering much.
2. Moving location is probably a good idea.
3. Probably should pop itself up occasionally to be in front of the active window.
4. Probably should avoid popping up in front of "work apps" (e.g. an IDE, Excel) and pop up more frequently in front of "distraction apps" (e.g. web browser).
5. Steer users towards one thing per note.
6. Occasionally in specific situations (e.g. long time with browser active), the pop up should be unclosable for a short time.
1)I get tonnes of ideas to work on, far more than I could ever create. 99% of them aren't obviously anything to do with symptoms or ADHD at all. The projects that could help with ADHD have to compete for my time with ideas that solve some other thing I think of solving. 1b) there have been some problems that with hindsight where magnified because of poor working memory or other symptoms, but since I hadn't realised that's why they bothered me so much, I'd talk about them to other people and the ideas would be shot down or tweaked for mass-market usage. Since I want to solve problems, and get paid for it at some point, if I'm told "yeah that's just you, nobody else has that problem" it's easy to think "okay then, I'll move on to my next favourite idea even though I really want this one to exist". 2) it's hard to get non-adhd people to get excited by products that solve ADHD issues (needed if you want to do any kind of funding, even family and friends round). For starters ADHD is really badly misunderstood by the general population. Many symptoms look like we're not trying hard enough in some area of self care or organisation plus the acronym is straight up a terrible representation of the condition - it highlights only the most noticeable traits it shows as in young patients - not the areas that negatively effect people in working life. Also lots of big pain points for ADHD sufferers are felt to a much lesser extent by non-adhd, and so there are tools that are able to solve it for non-adhd but don't quite work for us. A quick look or even a bit of usage can make a tool look like it solves the problem when it really doesn't for us
Probably more reasons but this is getting long and I need to end this comment at some point
My score varies a to based on several health issues. I sometimes used it to track how treatments are affecting me.
https://github.com/CrazyPython/adhd-resistant-sticky-notes
I'm still not quiet sure what to do with it.
Not sure how to articulate this, but to get my attention when I'm forgetting about or ignoring something, I would need to see an unexpected change -- it's not enough for something to just change colors inside of the box, because my brain can still just filter on the concept of "box". What breaks into my brain is surprise and irregularity, and a color just doesn't trigger that. I don't even notice the fonts if I'm not looking at it. I almost feel like the 10 minute window would have been better, because then at least I wouldn't be getting used to it constantly changing color.
Not to mention that for this to be used as a sticky note, I'd need to have it as a window on top of my screen. Typically when I create a sticky note, it's because I can't do the task right now. So to have the task just on top of everything else, animating... even if it is annoying enough to get my attention, then that kind of guarantees I'm not going to get much else done in the meantime because it'll be distracting me.
The idea behind a sticky note for me is that it's a reminder. It's not meant to be omnipresent, it should just show up every once and while like a recurring alarm -- in a perfect world, it would only show up when it's actually time for me to do the task, so it doesn't risk breaking my concentration if I'm doing something else that's productive.
Good idea, and maybe it's something that'll work better for other people. But I can't see myself getting use out of it in its current form.
They also have those glass signboards that you write on with regular or phosphorescent ink.