🌟Organising and Planning - Neurodivergent-friendly (ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, OCD) 🗓
There are a huge range of items that anyone (whether neurodivergent or not) can use to help to declutter and organise your physical and mental spaces, as well as items to help you to plan to help with making sure you do what you set out to do. It's time to take back control of your life 🙌
Neurodivergent-Friendly Organising 📦
A list of things to help organise yourself and your stuff. One of the biggest challenges that neurodivergent people find is clutter - having clutter around us is distracting for ADHD people and just adds to the ability to lose things, and is physically perilous for the dyspraxia folk. We also have mental clutter that we need to get out of our head and organise to lighten the mental load. Let's keep things organised for our mental peace and physical safety.
I could write endless paragraphs about this. It's an absolute game-changer for anyone who has organisation problems, memory issues, loses notes, and who just want to move away from using endless note pads. If you love your tech and making your life easier, then the ReMarkable 2 is amazing.
I used a friends and fell in love with it. I now have my own and it is incredible.
Super easy to learn to use, feels great in the hands, feels like you're writing on paper and so cool to have all your scribbles, lists, documents and everything else connected automatically to your computer, so anything you jot down on the go is sync...
Love this 100% and totally neurodivergent friendly due to the matt colours, matt surface, soft texture, lack of noise, and super helpful if your neurodivergence needs a helping hand ❤️
I used a friends and fell in love with it. I now have my own and it is incredible.
Super easy to learn to use, feels great in the hands, feels like you're writing on paper and so cool to have all your scribbles, lists, documents and everything else connected automatically to your computer, so anything you jot down on the go is sync...
Love this 100% and totally neurodivergent friendly due to the matt colours, matt surface, soft texture, lack of noise, and super helpful if your neurodivergence needs a helping hand ❤️
Many neurodivergent people have memory issues and so remembering to take medication or supplements daily can be incredibly difficult. I found that this pill box organiser was a game changer. I fill it up once a week and leave it in my kitchen next to my coffee maker as I have a coffee without fail every morning as part of my autopilot routine. Having it next to something that I know I will use every single day means I am visually prompted to take my pills everyday as it's a lovely bright box. On the last day of my pills, I take them, and then fill up the organiser for the week ahead. Absolutely fabulous 🫶
Particularly for those with ADHD, organisation can be a nightmare. Missed deadlines, forgotten appointments, and it can really feel like an uphill struggle to stay on top of day to day life. Are you struggling to stay on top of tasks and appointments? Is it difficult to meet deadlines, even when you know they’re imp...
I love these nested glass pyrex dishes. Having ones that can sit inside one another really is a game changer. It saves masses of space but it really soothing for my OCD and helps to soothe my ADHD as well as I like to cook a lot but that can mean creating quite a bit of chaos. These pyrex dishes are fantastic. They're glass so much safer to put hot food in so no plastic chemicals leech into food, they're incredible robust (I have dropped them a few times) so fabulous for anyone with dyspraxia, rounded edges that are soft to the touch and fabulous sizes tha... Such a great little set 👏🏻
I cannot cope with messy wires! I need things to be organised, and that goes for my extension cables. I've had a few of the extension reels over the years, but either the wires get trapped when reeling back in, or they look a mess, and it gets on my nerves. I have finally found an extension reel that doesn't have me on edge! This one is fantastic. So easy to pull out the cord, and it's so easy to wind it all back in, and because of the design, the wires rewind neatly but are mainly hidden. Phew, it's just one less thing to set off my OCD 🥳
One of the main things you can do to help your mind to process much better is to declutter your area - storage is your friend! This is such a great little trolley and massively helpful for neurodivergent people to help organise either your veggies (s... This is a super lightweight trolley but it is sturdy, so not for storing heavy things although I load it up with potatoes and it does just fine. I love this because it's so slim but holds quite a lot so if you've not got a lot of space it's perfect for storage. I have a few dotted about my house…one in my kitchen for veggies, one in my bathroom for toilet rolls/cleaning products/spare toiletries, and one in my office to store my reams of paper and lots of stationery 🙌
Memory issues are a big problem for many neurodivergent people, and for those with ADHD (me!) we can have so many things going on in our minds at the same time. One of the things that helps to reduce mental overload is to do a ‘cognitive offload’, to write down and get out of your head what's in your mind. This whiteboard is the perfect size to hang up anywhere you have space and to capture all of those things that are buzzing around in your head. It will help to clear your mind, capture all your thoughts, help you to organise those thoughts, and to plan from them. Absolutely essential to reduce anxiety ❤️
One of the kindest thing a neurodivergent person can do for themself is to get what's in their head onto paper to relieve cognitive load. Us neurodivergent people have to work so hard to process our environment and find it so easy to get distracted and to suffer memory problems, that writing stuff down is really the way to go. I find that these Pukka pads are fantastic. They stay together very well (no sheets dropping out unexpectedly and getting lost), flexible design, the paper is smooth to the touch so unlikely to cause any anxiety, it's great quality paper so not going to smudge everywhere and annoy anyone that ... Plus the pads are not heavy so you can easily pop one in your work/school bag but there's plenty of pages so you can capture everything in one place that you need. I love these pads, they're so durable and friendly to use, highly recommended 🫶🏽
Fantastic bathroom organiser. I have so many toiletries in the bathroom and because of bad memory I need them all out on display so I can remember what I have so they don't go off before I can use the products!
This is a fantastic organiser. I prefer the ones without compartments so I am not forced to try to make things fit. Instead I can load them up however I want to. I have one that I have a lovely pile of rolled up facecloths and another two that hold all different types of toiletries and another that holds spare toilet rolls, wet wipes etc.
I love that these are really solid so they're not going to bend under any weight when they're lifted up for cleaning (it's so easy to clean under one organiser that lifts every thing up rather than having to lift/move every single product to clean!! ...
Absolutely love this, quality organisation that can be used in bathrooms, kitchen, fridges, cupboards, the office 👏🏻
This is a fantastic organiser. I prefer the ones without compartments so I am not forced to try to make things fit. Instead I can load them up however I want to. I have one that I have a lovely pile of rolled up facecloths and another two that hold all different types of toiletries and another that holds spare toilet rolls, wet wipes etc.
I love that these are really solid so they're not going to bend under any weight when they're lifted up for cleaning (it's so easy to clean under one organiser that lifts every thing up rather than having to lift/move every single product to clean!! ...
Absolutely love this, quality organisation that can be used in bathrooms, kitchen, fridges, cupboards, the office 👏🏻
Saved my sanity! I'm OCD and absolutely need things to be organised and especially for things to be perfectly aligned or I get stressed out. One thing that was causing me a lot of anxiety was the drinks cans I have in my fridge not being perfectly lined up. With other family member in and out of the fridge the lines of cans were always being knocked.
So, I got one of these and I am not all sorted! So easy to just stack up the drinks cans and they fit perfectly and stay aligned so no adjusting needed, plus I find it much better to stack them this way as I wasn't able to put two cans end to end on top of each other in the fridge and two lines of...
This item saves all the hassle and stress and has created more space in my fridge. It's a small thing but it really does help to manage my nead for orderliness. I'm sure you'll love it too 🙌
So, I got one of these and I am not all sorted! So easy to just stack up the drinks cans and they fit perfectly and stay aligned so no adjusting needed, plus I find it much better to stack them this way as I wasn't able to put two cans end to end on top of each other in the fridge and two lines of...
This item saves all the hassle and stress and has created more space in my fridge. It's a small thing but it really does help to manage my nead for orderliness. I'm sure you'll love it too 🙌
YES, this is absolutely perfect for organising all of these essential things you need when you have a baby. It's the best for keeping everything you need and all of my neurodivergent friends love them, because it feels nice to the touch, lovely calming colour, keeps everything neat and easily accessible, which is exactly what we need when we are sensory-ov...
I actually use mine on a wardrobe shelf and keep all of my feminine products in there along with a load of beauty products, hair brushes etc, it's absolutely fantastic to just pull out, find what I need and then store. Fantastic storage solution if you don't have a baby. Also great for keeping all your pet stuff in one place and to take out with you on your pet outings! Love it ❤️
I actually use mine on a wardrobe shelf and keep all of my feminine products in there along with a load of beauty products, hair brushes etc, it's absolutely fantastic to just pull out, find what I need and then store. Fantastic storage solution if you don't have a baby. Also great for keeping all your pet stuff in one place and to take out with you on your pet outings! Love it ❤️
This laundry basket is super neurodivergent-friendly. It feels gentle to the touch, the colours are calming, it really helps with organising laundry, fantastically easy to use, brilliant for those with co-ordination issues as easy to handle removable laundry bags. All round an amazing laundry basket and...
Sustainable and neurodivergent friendly!! Absolutely gorgeous wooden shelf. The rounded corners make it safer for those with balance issues, the colour of the wood is super easy for neurodivergent people to process, it's warm natural colour gives a sense of grounding, and it looks great in any room. Fantastic that it's made of reclaimed wood so you can be more sustainable in your fabulous home decor. Love this shelf, solid and gorgeous 🌟
Do you struggle to remember everything that is said on your Zoom or Teams meetings calls, or does your mind wander, and does it stress you out??? I have the answer to this problem!!!!
FREE and super easy software that joins the meeting alongside you and captures everything that is said, and can even easily record the entire meeting for later viewing.
After the meeting ends, Fathom automatically sends you a summary of what was said (and I cannot stress this enough, it's the best summary report I've ever seen for each and every meeting, it is pure brilliance, just wait until you see it!) and you ca...
Download Fathom AI for free, yes, absolutely free to you and you can record as many meetings as you like. Absolute game-changer, no need at all to worry any longer about having to stay so focused throughout - let your neurodivergent beautiful brain r...
Fathom have told me that if you join their free service, you'll also get three months of premium Fathom for free 🙌❤️
FREE and super easy software that joins the meeting alongside you and captures everything that is said, and can even easily record the entire meeting for later viewing.
After the meeting ends, Fathom automatically sends you a summary of what was said (and I cannot stress this enough, it's the best summary report I've ever seen for each and every meeting, it is pure brilliance, just wait until you see it!) and you ca...
Download Fathom AI for free, yes, absolutely free to you and you can record as many meetings as you like. Absolute game-changer, no need at all to worry any longer about having to stay so focused throughout - let your neurodivergent beautiful brain r...
Fathom have told me that if you join their free service, you'll also get three months of premium Fathom for free 🙌❤️
Neurodivergent-Friendly Planning 🗓
Tasks can be incredibly difficult to start and to finish for neurodivergent people. It helps hugely to plan what you need to do into little steps and to visualise that to help remind you of what you need to do and when. The best thing you can do to plan is to get it out of hour head and in front of your eyes 🙌
Fabulous magentic planner. If your memory is not great or have a hectic household (both apply to me) then this is fantastic to have stuck to your fridge door. This has been massively helpful in planning for family dinners for the week ahead (that then makes it easier to create a shopping list based on the planned meals), it means other family members can add notes to it about any important happening in the... This is great for helping to capture the important things for the week ahead and will make you feel much more calmer and less anxious that you've forgotten something if you can see it written down in big letters stuck to the fridge! 🥳🫶
The full-featured mind mapping and brainstorming app. Like a Swiss Army Knife, Xmind ® offers a complete toolset for thinking and creativity. This is fantastic if you're ADHD in particular as this helps to order your thoughts and to connect them outside of your head to free up brain space and to turn thoughts into action. Essential if you need help gathering together all those fabulously creative and innovative thoughts that neurodivergent people are bubbling over with ∞🌈🫶
So many neurodivergent people can get distracted or find it difficult to complete tasks. This where body-doubling comes in!! Get more done, feel good doing it. 50+ focus sessions a week to beat distraction and accomplish your work. ‘Flown’ is a fabulous organisation where you can partner up with people online to have someone working alongside you, and this can be in complete silence too. This is hugely helpful if you find it easier to get things done when others around you are working (imagine how productive you are when working in a quiet library or coffee shop but you're in your own home!). I absolutely love this service, such lovely people who run it, definitely check it out 🙌
Particularly for those with ADHD, organisation can be a nightmare. Missed deadlines, forgotten appointments, and it can really feel like an uphill struggle to stay on top of day to day life. Are you struggling to stay on top of tasks and appointments? Is it difficult to meet deadlines, even when you know they’re imp...
Take back control! I cannot live without these now, especially as we have a busy household and all three of us are ADHD with serious memory issues. Also brilliant for ANYONE with memory issues. We use these every day and absolutely lovely them. By getting everyone to add things onto the lists they also take a bit more responsibility for being places on time/shwoing up/getting things done (great for helping to nudge family members to do their chores!). Absolutely wonderful could not live without them now, everything is organised 🙌
Memory issues are a big problem for many neurodivergent people, and for those with ADHD (me!) we can have so many things going on in our minds at the same time. One of the things that helps to reduce mental overload is to do a ‘cognitive offload’, to write down and get out of your head what's in your mind. This whiteboard is the perfect size to hang up anywhere you have space and to capture all of those things that are buzzing around in your head. It will help to clear your mind, capture all your thoughts, help you to organise those thoughts, and to plan from them. Absolutely essential to reduce anxiety ❤️