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We have so much to tell. This is our little brain dump space where we share everything we believe needs to be shared.

  • Why I Color-Code My ADHD Dopamine Menu (and How to Do It in 5 Minutes)

    It’s Tuesday at 3pm. The dopamine menu is on the desk. Twenty-three items on it — some good ideas from Sunday-you, all in your handwriting, all equally reachable, all sitting in the same visual grey soup. You look at the list. You cannot see anything. The information is there. The reading brain is offline. And…

  • The Year I Tried 12 Productivity Apps and Went Back to Paper

    The year was 2024. I was sketching the first prototype of an ADHD planner. And the most honest thing I could do before drawing another page was to live inside the tools my future readers were already using. So I tried the ADHD productivity apps the internet had ever recommended, every single one. I expected…

  • 5 Books That Reframed How I See ADHD

    I’ve read a lot of ADHD books, some for research, some because friends kept recommending them. Most didn’t stand up. The clinical ones were thorough but read like manuals about strangers, not the actual people the planner is built for. The motivational ones promised that readers just needed more discipline or a 5am routine. The…

  • The ADHD Weekly Reset: A 15-Minute Sunday Ritual

    It’s Sunday at 6pm. The week ahead exists as a blurry weight in your chest that you can’t name yet. There are things on Monday you can already feel without being able to list them. The instinct is to either ignore the weight until Monday hands it to you sharper, or to spend two hours…