Guides
How do you choose an ADHD tool you will keep using?
Start from the moment things go wrong, not from the product: the lost keys at the door, the tab spiral at 11 p.m., the book you dropped halfway. Each guide here works back from that moment to the cheapest tool that fixes it, using cards already on the shelf. Every guide is dated and lists its sources.
Checked 2026-10-27
- How to Get Back Into a Book You Stopped Reading
Stopped a book halfway and lost the plot? A five-step restart: find your place, rebuild the story without spoilers, re-enter small, make the next gap cheaper.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Keep Track of Characters in a Book (Without Spoilers)
Lost track of who is who? Five ways to keep a cast straight: a running cast list, a quick map, the book's own aids, page-locked cast tools, audiobook tricks.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Catch Up on a Book Series Before the Next One Comes Out
The sequel is out and you forgot book one. Reread, skim or recap? A time-boxed catch-up plan for series readers, the tools that help, and the spoiler traps to avoid.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Avoid Spoilers While You Read: A Practical Checklist
Where book spoilers actually come from (search, wikis, blurbs, social feeds) and the settings and habits that keep them away while you are mid-book.
Checked 2026-11-03
- Audiobook or Print for ADHD? A Two-Week Format Test
Listen or read? Both count. A two-week test to find which format holds your attention, where each one fails, and how to switch without losing your place.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Set Up an ADHD-Friendly Desk: Zone by Zone, at Three Budgets
An ADHD desk setup that works: visible time, sound control, one capture spot, the phone out of reach, and a landing tray. Zone by zone, with $0, $60 and $400 builds.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Build a Launch Pad by the Door (and Stop Hunting for Keys)
A launch pad is one spot by the door where keys, wallet, bag and outgoing things live. How to build one for under $20, what goes on it, and when to add a tracker.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Set Up a Family Command Center That Gets Used
A family command center in four parts: a calendar everyone sees, one list, an inbox tray and a weekly reset. Whiteboard or Skylight, and the rule that keeps it.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Choose Noise-Cancelling Headphones for Focus
Do you need noise cancelling, earplugs or a noise machine? How to choose headphones for focus: the noise you have, comfort, fit, battery, budget and safe volume.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Use a Timer for Short Reading Sessions
Short timed reading sessions are easier to start than an hour you never find. How long to set the timer, where to put it, when to stop, and how to restart next time.
Checked 2026-11-03
- How to Listen to Audiobooks on Libby (ADHD-Friendly Setup)
How to borrow and listen to free library audiobooks in Libby, download them for offline listening, and set speed and sleep timer so you stop losing your place.
Checked 2026-10-27
- Libro.fm or Audible: Which Audiobook Plan Fits an ADHD Listener?
Libro.fm and Audible compared for listeners who forget subscriptions: price, credits, what you keep, expiring credits, pausing, and gifting.
Checked 2026-10-27
- How to Use Speak Screen on iPhone to Listen Instead of Reread
Turn on Speak Screen and Speak Selection on iPhone, change the voice and speed, and use them to listen to articles, emails and ebooks. Free, built in, step by step.
Checked 2026-10-27
- What Is Body Doubling for ADHD, and Which Kind Fits You?
Body doubling means working with another person present. The four kinds (in person, booked video, open rooms, hosted groups), what each costs, how to pick.
Checked 2026-10-27
- How to Stop Losing Your Keys: The Bowl, Then the Tracker
A two-layer fix for lost keys: one bowl by the door to build the habit, plus a tracker on the right finding network for the days the habit fails.
Checked 2026-10-27
- Which Loop Earplugs for ADHD: Quiet, Engage or Switch?
Loop Quiet, Engage and Switch compared for noise sensitivity and focus: which to buy for solo work and sleep, for meetings and dinners, or for both.
Checked 2026-10-27
- How to Choose a Visual Timer for ADHD
How to choose between a Time Timer, a flip cube, a hexagon timer and a sand hourglass for ADHD, and why the phone timer was returned.
Checked 2026-10-27
- How to Pick a Paper Planner You Will Keep Using
Why undated planners survive a skipped month, which layouts suit which brains, and why the expensive dated planner got returned. With the planners on our shelf.
Checked 2026-10-27
- What Goes in an ADHD Reading Kit?
Six pieces of an ADHD reading kit, mostly free: a library app, text-to-speech, a timer, quiet, a way back into a dropped book, and a log.
Checked 2026-10-27
- How to Turn Off the Feed in Your Browser
Extensions that remove feeds, YouTube recommendations and tab overload without blocking the sites you need: News Feed Eradicator, Unhook, OneTab, StayFocusd.
Checked 2026-10-27
Questions
- Q. Are the guides medical advice?
- A. No. They are about tools and setups, not diagnosis or treatment. See the medical disclaimer for the full statement.
- Q. Do guides recommend products that are not on the shelf?
- A. Guides build on cards that are already on the shelf, with their stamps and confidence lines unchanged. When a guide mentions something else, it says so and links the source.
- Q. How are guides kept current?
- A. Each guide shows the date it was checked. When a card it relies on changes, the guide is re-checked with it.
Every entry lists its own sources.