I just discovered something amazing
So, as an autistic and ADHD person, I am an actual disaster, and so have the horrible combination of a shitty memory and executive dysfunction. Meaning that I have the worst time remembering to do literally anything, and about half the time, even when I remember to do it, it just doesn’t. Get done. Because my brain says “nope, what task? There’s no task here!”
I’ve been trying to find a task manager type thing for my phone for actual months to try and get some of this under control because my trash brain just does. Not. Remember to check the planner? So Phone Reminders right? Except the actual Reminders app doesn’t like me, and the Calendar app on the phone already doesn’t like me either (plug in a million pieces of information!)
So with school back in session (I’m starting college, so this is EXTRA important now) I needed to figure something out (especially since I’m trying to convince my parents, namely my dad, that I’m a Responsible Adult who can be trusted with things like Privacy and Autonomy) to remind myself!
And I was poking around today and found something called My Study Life.
This thing is a free app - and by that, I mean it’s actually free. No subscriptions, no free trial and then buy the app, none of that. It’s actually just download and go. You have to make an account (but it’s actually a free thing).
It’s specifically designed for school, but I can imagine you can use it for anything you need to schedule. It’s also really easy to use and doesn’t have a million things that are extra distracting. You open the app and it takes you to a dashboard which has a) your classes/scheduled things for that day, b) an idea of the classes/scheduled things for the next day, c) REMINDERS OF ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE NEXT DAY, and d) any exams the next day. Now. Right next to this on the dash is a tab for tasks. This tab tells you if you have any upcoming tasks (reminders, assignments, stuff like that) in the NEXT THREE DAYS. Which is GREAT for me, who, again, has a shitty memory and needs constant reminders.
It then will also remind you to do this stuff. It will remind you before a class. It will remind you before an exam. You can set a time to remind you to do tasks. It’s great.
I needed to scream about this because school is weird and hard and organization is even harder when your brain is as effective at organizing as an actual piece of stone.