Short answer, ADHD sucks, except for when it rules (about 1% of the time).
I have a very checklist oriented system now. I bootstrap each day by going through my issues and triaging them, blocking out certain portions of the day for particular pieces of work.
First block is short tasks like emails etc that take <15 minutes.
I also make a habit of noticing when I'm not starting a task because it's too complicated to immediately know what to do, in which case I have a primer task for those in which I work out what the discrete steps are and list those out.
Tasks are set into timed blocks. 15 mins for simple ones (sometimes shorter), 2 hours ish for longer ones. If they don't fit in 2 hours they're not chunked small enough.
Another tip for ADHD - if you block out 15 mins for each small task and you finish early, give yourself a little reward i.e. goofing off on HN for a couple of minutes.
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I have a very checklist oriented system now. I bootstrap each day by going through my issues and triaging them, blocking out certain portions of the day for particular pieces of work.
First block is short tasks like emails etc that take <15 minutes.
I also make a habit of noticing when I'm not starting a task because it's too complicated to immediately know what to do, in which case I have a primer task for those in which I work out what the discrete steps are and list those out.
Tasks are set into timed blocks. 15 mins for simple ones (sometimes shorter), 2 hours ish for longer ones. If they don't fit in 2 hours they're not chunked small enough.
Another tip for ADHD - if you block out 15 mins for each small task and you finish early, give yourself a little reward i.e. goofing off on HN for a couple of minutes.