You are not to blame in case you have purchased a planner and then left it aside within one week. Neurodivergent brains are developed to accommodate the flexible, creative disorder of traditional planners rather than the linear ones. They usually result in disappointment and embarrassment. But suppose that your instruments were to be made to act with you, rather than against you?

The trick lies in the system that allows not only hyperfocus but also the necessity to switch duties, coupled with a decreased mental burden of the executive functions. It is at this point that a dedicated digital planner system comes into play. Look for an iPad digital planner that you can use to plan and execute those plans. 

Reasons for Choosing Digital Templates for ADHD Brains 

A tablet with a digital planner (i.e., iPad with GoodNotes or Notability) is the only device that fits the ADHD mind:

• No Fear of Mistakes: Sloppy handwriting? Spell something wrong? The most valuable friends are the undo button and the lasso tool. No more ruined pages.
• Always With You: Sync your planner to your phone, tablet, and computer. When you have an idea, your system is always available.
• Interactive & Engaging: The feel of using the stylus to write and changing colors, stickers, and hyperlinks makes the planning process not look like a task but a fun activity.

Understand the Core Templates for the ADHD-Friendly System 

The ADHD Focus template bundle is organized to achieve four pillars that can enable you to manage the overwhelm and concentrate your energy effectively.

• Use the Brain Dump Page 

Your mind is always coming up with things, concerns, and recalls. It is tiresome and counterproductive to keep it to oneself. This is a classified, unstructured section to purge all that is in your head onto the page. It is the initial and most important step in decreasing anxiety.

Break the habit of having a ten-minute brain dump every morning or before bedtime. This helps in clearing the mental clutter so that you have the opportunity to know what really demands your attention.

• Create a Priority List 

After you get your jobs off your mind, the Priority Matrix (or the Eisenhower Matrix) will assist you in ranking your tasks graphically. Urgent and important. Do these today. Not Urgent, Important: Plan them to be done later. You can try out a reMarkable 2 template if you haven’t tried any planner before. 

• What about Time Blocking? 

Forget a simple to-do list. Time-blocking means scheduling your work as a certain appointment in your calendar. With our ready-made time-blocking spreadsheets, you put in blocks of time in certain activities, even hyperfocus sessions, rest periods, and transitions. There must be 15 minutes of a block between big jobs. This provides your brain with a buffer to change gears without going off stream.

• Creating Hyperfocus 

The hyperfocus is a massive asset when it is purposely guided. The following template will guide you in preparing a successful deep dive. It is a special page with subsections dedicated to your hyperfocus goal, material needed, a do-not-disturb plan, and a place to save notes pertaining to related thoughts without straying off track of the actual task.

Creating an ADHD-friendly system is not about struggling to be neurotypically organized to force oneself to be so. It is about having an external brain that stores the structure, so that your brilliant mind is free to create, innovate, and prosper.