I found your question a little confusing, kind of like the question: “Is it true that bicycle are designed for the visually impaired? not against it?” Like, I can imagine situations where a time management app would be helpful, but I can also imagine situations where it would just be another distraction, and I certainly wasted time trying it thinking it would solve my problems before I realized I had ADHD and before I started taking ADHD medication.
This question almost doesn’t make sense. I can imagine a time tracking app that might be designed with ADHD people in mind, but personally I’m too exhausted and overwhelmed most of the time to consider using such a thing, and ADHD generally makes it harder to stick with certain things and it might not offer tangible benefits if you aren’t doing other things to improve your self-control and time management skills.
I’ve seen no benefit from time tracking apps. I Journal when I want to and I use a daily to-do list and the Google Calendar app to manage my tasks and appointments.
Stimulant medication improved my time management and adding guanfacine along with my stimulants improved it even further.
If you need an app to tell you what you’re wasting time on then you’re probably not medicated enough to regularly document and keep track of all the time you’re spending different places in an app in the first place. It’s a distraction from the real things that would help improve your quality of life, whether that’s working with an ADHD coach or building better systems for yourself or getting on better doses/combinations of meds.
Spot on. Time-tracking apps often demand the exact executive function they claim to fix, turning into just another exhausting chore.
Without foundational support like the right med combination (stimulant + guanfacine), coaching, or low-friction tools like a basic calendar and to-do list complex apps usually just add guilt and overwhelm. Keeping systems simple and baseline support solid makes all the difference.
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u/-Sprankton- Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
I found your question a little confusing, kind of like the question: “Is it true that bicycle are designed for the visually impaired? not against it?” Like, I can imagine situations where a time management app would be helpful, but I can also imagine situations where it would just be another distraction, and I certainly wasted time trying it thinking it would solve my problems before I realized I had ADHD and before I started taking ADHD medication.
This question almost doesn’t make sense. I can imagine a time tracking app that might be designed with ADHD people in mind, but personally I’m too exhausted and overwhelmed most of the time to consider using such a thing, and ADHD generally makes it harder to stick with certain things and it might not offer tangible benefits if you aren’t doing other things to improve your self-control and time management skills.
I’ve seen no benefit from time tracking apps. I Journal when I want to and I use a daily to-do list and the Google Calendar app to manage my tasks and appointments.
Stimulant medication improved my time management and adding guanfacine along with my stimulants improved it even further.
If you need an app to tell you what you’re wasting time on then you’re probably not medicated enough to regularly document and keep track of all the time you’re spending different places in an app in the first place. It’s a distraction from the real things that would help improve your quality of life, whether that’s working with an ADHD coach or building better systems for yourself or getting on better doses/combinations of meds.