online ADD /memory assistance / brain fog resources?

[firecat]

I have a high distractability quotient and faulty short-term-to-long-term-memory transfer right now. I can think of various possible causes for this, but that's not the subject of this post.

I was thinking that people with ADD probably have developed techniques to minimize the impact of such things. Perhaps I could benefit from subscribing to a mailing list or LJ community that discusses such techniques. Do you know of any useful groups or web sites along those lines?

(I have already ordered David Allen's Getting Things Done.)

Comments

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest Mark Foster's books over David Allens for someone with high distractability. Allen's process doesn't address 'oh Shiney!' except to tell you to put it on a list which you look at once a week. This list eventually expands to suck all the air out of your life.

Mark Foster is much better about making achievable commitments. Tom Limonicelli's Time Management for SysAdmin's is very similar to Foster's perspective. There's no one more distracted than a SysAdmin.

Giving myself permission to save something till tomorrow, rather than giving into the distraction has been a great relief.

There's a yahoo group for Foster's _Do It Tomorrow_, which has a good book summary.

Another book I highly recommend, is _The Now Habit_ by Neil Fiore. The yahoo group for that book also has wonderful summaries.

_Getting Things Done_ sounds good, but I found it really a total waste of time. And I really wanted to like it, because of the whole Zen thing.

I hope this helps!

[elynne.livejournal.com]

If you were to reccommend just one of these books, or one to start with, which would you choose?

[is in process of trying to relearn to brain]

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I'd start with the book summary for _Do It Tomorrow_ on the yahoo group do_it_tomorrow. It's in the files section: DIT Chapter Summaries
Charles Cave's summaries

[flippac.livejournal.com]

re Allen's approach I suspect you can go a long way by garbage-collecting the list a bit (perhaps keeping an older generation for "shiny but doesn't need looking at 'til I feel like it") and perhaps having some "do random shiny thing" time. I'm not reaching that level of organisation myself yet though.

[firecat]

Thanks for the recommendations! I have gotten a few things out of David Allen's book in the past (I borrowed it from a friend) but I suspect I wouldn't be happy trying to follow that degree of regimentation closely.