novelty

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)
  1. another room
  2. outside (comfortable places like forest / park)
  3. 🌲 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

1. change their colors (note color, pen/text color, app theme colors)
2. change their shapes (launchers with customization, toggle of list/grid view)
3. change their sounds (notifications, alarms)
4. 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

footnotes (outlinks)

1. Improvement Roll
2. DoodleBot
3. Stickies