Okay, let's be real for a second.
You know how it goes. You get that new planner, that shiny new app, that perfect productivity system that's definitely, absolutely, 100% going to be THE ONE that changes everything.
Calendar apps, task apps, reminders to remind you to check the task list to remind you to check the diary (which you ignored anyway, making the whole thing spectacularly fail). The notebooks. Oh God, the notebooks.
That pile of beautiful, expensive notebooks that you shamefully avoid after looking at them once as if each one held the power to change your life, one gorgeous page at a time... Does this sound familiar?
On yet another path to find that perfect app, I was full of frustration. I was simply STRUGGLING. HARD. Harder than I thought I should be. But here's the thing - after years (read: decades) of trying and failing to find a system that worked, I thought I'd try something different.
Granted, having a diagnosis helped in recognizing that maybe, just MAYBE, the systems were failing me rather than me failing everything. What a concept, right?
What if it's not that I'm broken? What if these tools just... don't get how my brain works?
So I went (again) on a path to search for that perfect app. I'm sure you know that type of hyperfocused "I-need-to-know-everything" research rabbit hole I'm talking about... You know the one.
None of these apps out there seemed to tick the boxes I needed. It was either another recipe for disaster, and after realizing on the afternoon of day 2 that I'd forgotten which restrictions which app had, I thought:
"Why not try and do it myself?"
Well, again, I'm sure this sounds familiar, but here we are... Another couple of hyperfocused learning days later, and ta-da!
The real game-changer came when I realized: "What if I could just speak my thoughts instead of fighting with interfaces?" Voice control eliminated all the clicking, typing, and executive function barriers that made other apps feel impossible.
The app does what I want it to do. After some surprisingly positive feedback, I thought I would try sharing the joy.
I hope it helps you as much as it helped me, and I hope it helps you be yourself.
And for those who know the struggles I mentioned above, here's what I've learned: we are not broken or defective. We just need tools that work with us instead of against us.
AlterHego is hopefully the one for you... or the start of something better!