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But then the app got updated and it no longer does the push notifications on the tablet versions. I was finally beginning to get the whole functioning thing. Every two hours it would notify me on my tablet to check I’d had a drink, it would go off at the time I needed to prepare lunch and eat it, and so on for all my tasks.

I have used the Habitica app in the past to help with that and it worked absolutely amazingly.

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What I’m really after is something that can just notify me with an audible sound (that isn’t jarring so I don’t just jump out of my skin when it goes off) at times I choose to keep me on track. I used to wear a watch, but stopped when I realised that there was nothing to remind me to look at it so it wasn’t really serving its purpose, it was just irritating on my wrist. Its all well and good to say that at 2pm every day I should do X task, but if I don’t know when 2pm is (changing light levels don’t even help me) then I’ll miss doing it at that time or at all as I just won’t realise that time has gone by. I’m trying to create a schedule for myself to work to (I’m disabled and don’t work, and so have no schedule at all, I don’t even wake up or go to sleep at the same time, let alone eat at the same time, so I don’t have anything to build on) but what I’m struggling with is knowing when it is. It makes no difference to me if its an analogue or a digital clock except if its digital it at the very least tells me the time, whereas an analogue one I have to spend time figuring out what time it is. If I’m watching the clock, I can’t focus on doing any tasks and if I’m doing stuff I don’t remember to look at the clock. This could be something to do with also having dyscalculia perhaps?Īnyway for me I find clocks in and of themselves pretty useless. I can’t seem to remember what the time said last time I looked at it, so don’t get any “x amount of time has passed” information from an analogue clock and don’t get much without manually counting all the dashes how much time is left to the next time.

And then unless I’m just sat staring at the clock constantly watching the hands move, I have no idea about the passage of time. Most analogue clocks tick which is a horrible sensory thing for me – I just can’t cope with a ticking clock anywhere in the house. Keep in touch and it’d be great to see you on the 13th,Īny tips for if analogue clocks don’t work for you? I have pretty severe time blindness and don’t notice time passing. There is a big need for people to offer this course. You can learn more about the workshop on the home page of my website. It should be ready to ship by the end of November.

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The Instructor’s Manual is very very close to going to the printer. I’ll be going through the whole workbook just as I do with client families only you will be the participant. It is exactly for folks like you- people who want to help out struggling students. In the meantime, you might consider attending my workshop on Nov. I’d be happy to talk with you, but it will have to be a few weeks. I’m pleased that you enjoyed my presentation. Links from Comments weren’t being sent to me so I didn’t even know I had something to respond to! Life is a learning curve! I’m fairly new to the whole sophisticated website thing, and just this morning I actually found about your comment. (“How much longer before this meeting is over?”)įor folks with executive functioning time challenges, including those with ADHD, it is critical to have analog clocks constantly in sight in order to be able to see the passage of time since our brain doesn’t keep track of time on itown. (“What time is it?”) And it shows us the future. (“How long have I been working?”) It shows us the present. Whereas the old-fashioned face clock or analog clock gives us THREE views of time. What? He pointed out that the digital clock only gives us ONE view of time – the immediate present – the NOW. He made the outrageous statement that the digital clock would be the downfall of civilization. I was listening to a National Public Radio interview with an academic (I wish I could remember who!). An Insightful Predictionĭespite all the excitement back then over everything digital, there was at least one skeptical voice. I tell this to my younger clients and they look at me in disbelief. At that time, people were willing to spend a couple of hundred dollars for a digital watch. Today it’s hard to imagine that waaaaaaay back, around 1982, the digital clock was hot new technology.

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(Tip #5 of the series 15 Tips to Support Your Brain for Good Time Management), updated August 30, 2022