Feb 8
In Episode 58 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy shares five hacks that have changed her professional and personal productivity and play well with her ADHD brain. They are: Stickies app for IOS (or Sticky Notes for Windows), Multiple Desktops which is available for both IOS and Windows, TabResize app, Bear app; and New Kajabi, a platform for online businesses.
Tracy talks about: Her love - hate relationship with Post-it-notes, the two things that new applications need in order to work well with her ADHD brain, how to organize your computer workspace with multiple desktops. how to automatically organize your desktop so it’s never a mess. the application that keeps her the most focused because it allows her to stay within the four corners of one computer screen, the application that ensures you will never lose another note, book or restaurant suggestion or link again, and the application that finally allowed her to understand all parts of her online business rather than delegating that which she didn’t understand.
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"The only way we can change what we want to change about ourselves is by first understanding why we do what we do."
- Tracy Otsuka
"It literally helps to calm my brain down not to have all these yellow post it note reminders all over my desk."
- Tracy Otsuka
"If you have any kind of business, especially one with an online presence, it is literally the best thing out there."
- Tracy Otsuka
- Tracy shares her experience with using Apple products and how she found an app called Stickies for Mac to organize her post-it notes, which she found to be intuitive and easy to use.
- Tracy and her group members discuss the benefits of using the Stickies app, including its ease of use and ability to save notes, lists, and pictures.
- Tracy shares her struggles with managing multiple desktops and windows on her computer, often leading to confusion and frustration.
[06:40 - 21:34] Productivity Apps for ADHD Brains
- Tracy discovers multiple desktops and stacks on her Mac, organizing her desktop and making it easier to find files.
- Tracy uses Tab Resize and a 27-inch Thunderbolt screen to split her screen into quadrants, creating four separate screens on one desktop.
- Tracy uses tagging in bear to easily find notes, rather than relying on folders in Apple Notes, which can be confusing.
[21:34 - 36:32] Entrepreneurship and Managing Online Businesses
- Tracy shares her experience of struggling with an online business due to ADHD, feeling overwhelmed by the constant change and needing to learn new things.
- Tracy found that researching and purchasing various tools and resources did not solve her problems, and she had to reassess her approach to running an online business.
- Tracy taught herself to use Kajabi's 24/7 chat feature, allowing her to learn and do things on her own.
