ADHDThe blog
Twenty-three posts on ADHD and AI. Real studies, real prices, and zero hype. Every claim here survived a fact-check against the research.
Set Up a Second Brain in Obsidian, Step by Step (and Turn On the Map)
The click-by-click walkthrough: four folders, your first yap, your first two square brackets, and the graph view that turns your notes into a constellation — plus a live map you can play with.
The AI Audit: How ADHD Entrepreneurs Find the 5–10 Hours Hiding in Their Business
One week of honest counting: yap the machine, sort it into four piles, tally a real week, automate the worst leak. With the study numbers that make the target credible — honestly labeled.
Kaizen for the Chaos Brain: Running a Business With Too Many Moving Parts
The January overhaul dies by February. One small improvement a week — drafted by AI, approved by you — is the improvement system that matches how ADHD follow-through actually works.
Three Monitors, Zero Studies: What Screen Setups Actually Do for ADHD
The battle-station myth, checked: what multi-monitor research really shows, why flow and hyperfocus barely overlap, and the honest one-surface setup that costs nothing.
The ADHD Rabbit Hole: Why You Dive, and How to Climb Out With the Thread Still in Your Hand
Your brain grips the shiny thought because it fears losing it. Park it, save your place, and the spiral ends without killing your curiosity.
The Yap Method: Four Words That Get an ADHD Brain Unstuck
YAP, MAP, TAP, SNAP: the backpack-dump method that turns a messy ADHD brain into one small, doable next step.
What 2026 research actually says about AI and ADHD
Three real studies exist on AI and ADHD. Zero prove any tool improves outcomes. Here's the honest breakdown of what we actually know.
Why AI Will Not Replace Your ADHD Coach
A 27-expert review found AI ADHD plans are theoretically solid but too generic. Here's why that's great news for your wallet, not a knock on AI.
Body Doubling With AI: Loved By Thousands, Proven By Almost Nobody
A handful of papers, zero RCTs. Here's the honest evidence ladder behind body doubling, and where an AI check-in actually helps.
Cannot Start? Make the First Step Stupidly Small
"Do my taxes" isn't a task, it's a category. Here's how to shrink any dread task down to a 5-minute action you can start right now.
SNAP: Save Your Game Before Life Hits Pause
Interruptions don't erase your progress, they erase your memory of where it was. A four-line SNAP card saves your spot before that happens.
Two Words That Shrink Most Bad AI Answers
A 225-word AI plan against an 8-word one after saying SMALLER. See the word-count gap (from a constructed example) and the two override words that close it.
ADHD Entrepreneurs Do Not Need More Willpower. They Need Borrowed Structure
A job hands ADHD brains free structure. Solo founders lose it overnight, and research says the fix is borrowed structure, not more grit.
What ADHD Support Actually Costs in 2026
Real July 2026 prices for ADHD coaching, a Skool community, a voice app, and plain AI chat, with the weekly-to-monthly math shown.
The Postcard Rule: Yap Freely Without Oversharing
Set the fence once, before you talk. Fake names, no medical, legal, or money specifics, and the AI can be wrong anyway.
The Inventor of the Second Brain Shut It Down for Three Years
The guy who coined "second brain" paused his own famous course because AI made it obsolete. If you're starting late, you're right on time.
Five ADHD Coaches Have Said, On the Record, How They Really Use AI. It's Boring. That's the Point.
Five real coaches, on the record, about their daily AI habits: small, boring, and one admits he skips most of the tools he covers.
How Much Faster Does AI Actually Make You?
The four real studies on AI speed, ranked by rigor, plus the number that doesn't exist: zero studies measure this for ADHD adults.
Obsidian Is Free, Private, and Too Complicated. Use It Anyway (With Four Folders)
Tiago Forte says Obsidian is too complex. He's right if you install 50 plugins. Here's the four-folder version that works for an ADHD brain.
Your Brain Runs on Novelty. AI Is Made of It. That Cuts Both Ways.
A 2018 brain-imaging study suggests ADHD brains crave novelty twice as hard, and AI is built out of nothing else. Here's the fence.
The Bullet Journal Was an ADHD Invention. So Is This.
Ryder Carroll built the Bullet Journal for his own ADHD. AI voice capture is just the next notebook in the same line.
The $0 Second Brain (and What the Paid Ones Charge)
Notion wants $20 a month, Mem's agent tier is $99. Obsidian and a free AI chat app do the same job for $0.
Your Meetings Can File Themselves
Meetings can take their own notes now. No bot in the call, no typing while you listen, just a filed action list waiting when you're done.