novelty
Planted Sep 2026 Tended 2 months ago Linked from 2 notes
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novelty (mental health) ~ adding something unusual to routine, helps with AuDHD
how to add novelty
- 🌲 randomize tasks¹²
- change environment / place where you do thing (if possible)
- another room
- outside (comfortable places like forest / park)
- 🌲 floor
reminders / places where reminders are
after my brain gets used to seeing something in one place for too long I don’t notice it anymore. So a sticky note will work for about a week. Then my brain no longer notices it.
via AuDHD person from reddit
- change their colors (note color, pen/text color, app theme colors)
- change their shapes (launchers with customization, toggle of list/grid view)
- change their sounds (notifications, alarms)
- change their placement, but keep in immediate sight
- physical space: place at the work surface, stick note on the corner of the laptop screen
- digital space: pin³ note to the top of all apps, set a widget for home screen