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> I believe that lack of habit formation is a big part of at least some ADHD cases.

Definitely a significant part of my case. Until I started using a smart watch to walk me through morning and night routines, I had no routines. I generally don’t have regular habits which makes maintaining basic life stuff difficult at times.

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> Until I started using a smart watch to walk me through morning and night routines

This might be a silly question, but what does that mean in practice? I don't think I have what can be called morning or night routine (other than "go to bed when sleepy" and "get up, shower and go to work") but I also can't think why I'd need more than that.

I 100% relate to this, so the smartwatch bit is very interesting as I didn't think of using it for this - what's your workflow like? Do you just have calendar events on your wrist, or a more custom solution?

I use an app called Routinery (Apple Watch) and you can just setup sequences of tasks that trigger at times. Very simple but exactly what I need for the morning.

I'll give this a try, thank you!

I hope it works for you - let me know if you find any cool adaptations :)

Same. I learned earlier this year that I have multiple of the ADHD symptoms. Since then I got an Apple Watch just for reminders, after reading people from r/adhd praising its use. For the first time I feel that my days have a structure, and I can check at any time if I already did something instead of forgetting about it and doing it more than once (such as feeding my cat, who needs a very strict diet because of a health condition)

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