Even More Automations

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Part of the reason that automations is such a ripe topic is that it can help in almost all areas of our life - this week we're going to focus more on the work side of things, because when it comes to our jobs there are a ton of things that usually can be automated fairly easily, because we all have those little tasks that we have to do all the time that aren't that hard but do require us to shift our attention to them for just a little bit. And that's what I think is the best benefit of setting up automations for our ADHD brains - we've only got so much executive function for the day and task switching can be such a drain on us. When we set up these automations we can make it so that instead of wasting our days doing little nit picky things, that we're actually focusing on the things that matter.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Use programs like Zapier or IFTTT to create connections between other programs to help automate some of your workflow.
The first step in making your inbox more manageable is unsubscribing from all those newsletters you don't read and then setting up filters to direct the rest of your mail to various folders.
You can use predictive text and canned responses to reduce the amount of time it takes to respond to your emails.

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0:33.2	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:39.0	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:42.2	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:49.2	That's right, we're still going to be talking about automation this week.
0:52.3	There's just so much out there.
0:54.0	I honestly could probably put together a fourth episode on this topic,
0:57.6	but I think I'm going to be moving on to some other subjects next week.
1:01.7	Part of the reason that automation is such a ripe topic
1:04.5	is that it can help in almost any area of our life.
1:07.7	This week, we're going to be focusing more on the work side of things, because when
1:11.5	it comes to our jobs, there are just a ton of things that usually can be automated fairly easily.
1:17.0	We have all those little tasks that we have to do all the time that aren't that hard, but do require
1:21.8	us to shift our attention to them just for a little bit. And that's what I think is the best
1:26.3	benefit of setting up automations
1:27.8	for our ADHD brains. We've only got so much executive function for the day, and task switching
1:33.1	can be a huge strain on us. When we set up these automations, we can make it so that instead of
1:38.1	wasting our day doing little nitpicky things, that we can actually focus on the things that we
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