I have pretty bad adhd and one thing that helps enormously when working is just writing everything that i am doing down, in a linear fashion, with a few special markings for todo items and important notes and headings for specific meetings.
As I write code, I’ll clearly write down the next step I am trying to make work e.g. “Call the graphql endpoint and get the id of the employee” and then if any blockers come up, I add those as bullet points below the mini task. This helps me regularly remember what I am supposed to be doing each time I get distracted.
The end result of this is that I write around eight letter-sized pages per day. This kind of sucks with ballpoint pens as you need to use a lot of force to write with those. I switched to a fountain pen that fits my large hands and now mostly write in something akin to cursive (this is why cursive is a thing - it only makes sense when using a fountain pen).
Fountain pens with good ink really need high quality paper designed for them or they smear and bleed through.
As I write code, I’ll clearly write down the next step I am trying to make work e.g. “Call the graphql endpoint and get the id of the employee” and then if any blockers come up, I add those as bullet points below the mini task. This helps me regularly remember what I am supposed to be doing each time I get distracted.
The end result of this is that I write around eight letter-sized pages per day. This kind of sucks with ballpoint pens as you need to use a lot of force to write with those. I switched to a fountain pen that fits my large hands and now mostly write in something akin to cursive (this is why cursive is a thing - it only makes sense when using a fountain pen).
Fountain pens with good ink really need high quality paper designed for them or they smear and bleed through.