How to Make your Smart Phone ADHD Friendly (Part 2 rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This is the second part of the series on how to better manage your smartphone with your ADHD - you don't have to have listened to part 1 to listen to this episode, but if you like this episode I'd definitely recommend going back and listening to last week's episode as well. In that episode, we covered how we can limit the distractions that our smartphone can present and also how to make it easier on our ADHD brains when we're setting up our smartphone.

This week we're going in a bit of a different direction - while smartphones can be easily distracting and endless entertaining, they also provide us with some great tools to help us manage our ADHD. In this episode I'm going to be discussing a number of the apps I use to help me navigate my day - since I use the iPhone that means most of the apps I specifically discuss are going to be iPhone apps; however, I do try and provide alternatives for Android.

Find the Full Show Notes at: HackingYourADHD.com/ADHDPhone2

Today's Top Tips

1. Make use of reminder apps on your phone - make sure to use lots of different sounds and to create recurring reminders for things that you need to be reminded of frequently.
2. Use your calendar as a reminder app as well - for important events make sure to have reminders well in advance so that you can plan for them ahead of time.
3. Get a good note-taking app for your phone and create a reminder to also look at the notes that you take throughout the day or week.
4. Take advantage of shortcuts on your phone so that you can do complicated tasks without getting distracted.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD.
0:06.3	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:09.4	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with
0:13.4	your ADHD brain.
0:15.1	This is the second part in the series on how to better manage your smartphone with your ADHD.
0:20.0	You don't have to listen to part one to listen to this episode,
0:22.6	but if you like this episode, I'd definitely recommend going back and listening to last week's episode as well.
0:28.6	In that episode, we covered how we can limit the distractions that our smartphones can present
0:32.6	and also how to make it easier on our ADHD brains when we're setting up our phone.
0:38.1	This week, we're going in a bit of a different direction.
0:40.8	While smartphones can be easily distracting and endlessly entertaining, they also provide
0:45.5	us with some great tools to help us manage our ADHD.
0:48.9	In this episode, I'm going to be discussing a number of the apps I use to help me navigate
0:53.2	my day. Since I use an iPhone, that means most of the apps I use to help me navigate my day. Since I use an iPhone,
0:55.0	that means most of the apps I specifically discuss are going to be iPhone apps. However, I do try and
1:01.0	provide alternatives for Android. Today, we're going to be exploring all the ways I use my phone
1:06.3	to create reminders, tick notes, and some tricks that make my phone even easier to use. If you'd like to follow
1:12.5	along on the show notes page, you can find that at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash ADHD phone too.
1:20.8	Keep listening to find out more ways you can get the most out of your ADHD.
1:33.3	We're going to get started by talking about reminders. A few weeks ago, I got a ping on my phone reminding me to take out our trash bins so that
1:38.3	they could be picked up at the curb the next morning.
1:40.3	As I was wheeling out the bin, I thought about how funny it was that I rarely miss a trash day,
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