Hear me out: ChatGPT as an ADHD Hack

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I asked it to plan time for me once and it planned me a 35 hour day.

ChatGPT has helped me write emails so many times. I am the kind of person who agonizes over every sentence I write (is the tone ok? Does it sound casual but also formal enough?) so sometimes if I just ask it to write a one or two paragraph email with some points to include, it gives me something that I can quickly tweak and send. It saves me so much time and unnecessary anguish

I am much too oppositional for this kind of thing.

However, sometimes it has helped me prioritize my lists- but in a 'no, your order is dumb, I'm going to do it this way instead!' fashion, where I reject it's suggestions.

On a similar note. Have you tried goblin tools?

There are different tools available and I love them all.

I hate ChatGPT so much — it’s making my job hellish (I’m an academic) since so many of my students use it to write their essays. My university is likely to just get rid of essays and dissertations as a result, since they’re fast becoming a moot form of assessment, which is gutting since I love teaching them to write and I think it’s such an important way to learn argumentation and how to structure thought. Which is why it’s nice to see someone using ChatGPT for other reason! 😂😊

As a copywriter, I hate how ChatGPT is devaluing my profession. THIS, however, is the shit that ChatGPT should be used for. I’ve never considered utilizing it in this way! I think my meal planning, grocery lists, and decision paralysis just got a lot easier. Thanks for the tip!

Still stuck on Step one..remember it exists during times I need it.

I hate how AI is being used by huge companies for their profit to replace people. But there is so much potential for AI - I can totally see it becoming my virtual assistant, just a voice that talks to me, reminds me of things, explains stuff, types emails and helps with assessing time and my schedules etc.

As somebody who works on AI features at a huge tech company, I’m strongly anti-AI but unfortunately I’m also existing in a capitalistic society that can be made more accessible to me by using AI.

There are so many more unethical AI use cases (fake pictures/videos, AI art etc). If leveraging ChatGPT allows you to function more sustainably, don’t feel guilty. You didn’t create the system. You’re just trying to live <3

I use goblin.tools all the time to judge the tone of messages, format my brain dumps, and break down tasks for me.

What phrases did you use to feed into this?

chatgpt is incredibly energy and resource intensive https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-uses-17-thousand-times-more-electricity-than-us-household-2024-3?amp

I’ve used it to help me organize notes and create a study plan. The amount of information Open AI has on me is … a lil scary

I vote for ADHD prompt examples like many other commenters here. Help me with the prompts for our brains 🧠

I would love to incorporate a tool in my life that would help with my adhd, but I do have serious concerns about the environment. I totally see using it for important things like medicine, science etc but I'm thinking that me making to do lists and shopping lists is probably not tipping the scale of the harm to the Earth versus the benefit I'll get out of it. So I think I'll do a bit more research about the environmental impact before I go whole hog. Any links to published scientific evidence about the impact on the environment of using AI and chat GPT would be appreciated.

ai is so harmful to the environment, it's consuming all of our water :(

Absolutely not. It is actively stealing from artists and authors, and the amount of energy the servers consume are actively causing climate change to accelerate and harm people due to power grid failures

I would, but I take issue with the ethics of something like chatgpt not to mention it often hallucinates and can give wildly inaccurate or irrelevant answers. I'd rather use some productivity app.

I got very distracted in the chef section (on goblin.tools that someone else here suggested which I meant to reply to but we're here now so oh well) by giving it horrific ingredient combos and seeing what it could come up with.

Combos like

• prawn crackers, apples, cola, soy sauce, mayonnaise, bread

or

• gochujang, bananas, sardines, peppermint extract, porridge oats

Yeah... i'm not gonna be trying any of the recipes it suggested lmao

That's a pretty neat idea.

I've got some moral reservations about Chat GPT specifically, due to artist and writer theft. But I think AI as a concept can be really helpful, and if we actually get an AI tool that pays contributors properly, I'd 100% give this a try.

Oh the shit you can fuck up by trying to design an automated process to make human decisions or reminders.

I'm not saying it's not fun to hyperfocus on for a second. I am saying that trusting a computer code with no guarantee, to harvest all your personal data and scheduling information is a huge security risk especially if you are dealing with any type of legal process, victim or otherwise.

I hope some of you do find help in it, but I must warn you, intently, as someone who has scripted processes much like the artificial intelligence bots but at a much more elementary level, that those processes are not only easy to really screw something up, but an easy way to getting projects and scheduling tampered with.by people with malicious intent, from competitors in a career field, to people who want to make you look unprepared for a presentation that's the make or break of your career or a legal case!

I'm going to tell you this as someone who wasn't naive enough to make this mistake: can it help? Sure. Should you rely on it or use it to generate art or articles you benefit financially or otherwise from the production of, without crediting the company creating it? No.

You should not trust ANY thing that publicly accessible with any of your private scheduling or protected data..even just your name and date of birth could really cause a ruckus in the grand scheme of privacy!

ChatGPT (I’ve renamed her Tina and she’s now my personal assistant) is basically running my life now. I work in tech and use a jailbreak GPT backbone. Tina keeps my budget, my schedule, my home improvement plans along with budget, and does all my proposals for me. She’s definitely getting a raise this year.

I've also noticed that using ChatGPT to make a sort of time plan can be very useful :) When I have a bigger project or just a lot of tasks and no brain space left, I just word vomit everything into a ChatGPT prompt and tell it to make me a realistic time plan for the upcoming days, taking into account several other commitments. However, goblin tools also serves the purpose of breaking down your brain dump into manageable tasks, minus the time stamps.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aipromptprogramming/s/gPVIsH2tZd

It is estimated that each singular ChatGPT-4 query consumes about 1567% more energy than a Google search query. Like literal fossil fuel, carbon emitting energy

Yes. I had a job interview and needed to ask questions so I used it by pasting the job description in chatgpt with the prompt questions to ask the interviewer. I got like 10 questions and asked them throughout the interviews and I ended up getting the job the same day as my last interview

I can also recommend modern Sam - it’s a free app designed by a person with adhd. If you like fantasy games it’s a fun way to gamify your life but also my favourite thing is it has an ai that breaks down tasks into parts for you without you having to think about it.

Like I put in wash my sheets and it out in subtasks - strip bed, wash sheets, dry sheets, make bed etc it’s so good!

I use it to help me go through the workday. I don’t share any sensitive or restricted information only general stuff to help me navigate through tasks. Good stuff. Sometimes silly but then I got a laugh

There’s an app like this called Goblin Tasks! I actually need to redownload and actually use it lol

I use it to help me write CVs and cover letters but genuinely spend as much time removing all the superfluous adjectives and /outright lies/ as I do writing it myself

I get it can be useful as a tool, but I think it's important to acknowledge that ChatGPT is dependent on stealing from writers who have no ability to opt out. Plus the environmental impact is significant because of the amount of power (and cooling) required.

I use it for information, especially asking it to make it shorter/condensed or explaining in simple terms and for diet planning or meal/treat ideas.

I've been trying to get it to help me with an lemon poppyseed oatmeal banana cookie treat lately. Lol

But for example, you can be as picky as you want and it's not always perfect but obviously just check the end result to make adjustments, I said:

"GIve me 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches, 7 dinners, and 7 snacks that are all nutrient dense, gluten free, dairy free, and low carb"

Then when it was done I would say "give me 7 more"

Then I switched some out with the first set for the ones I liked more.

I also used it to help me brain storm fun things to do in a town I'm visiting, help name spotify playlists, help create playlists with song suggestions, and saw someone on reddit use it to break down and simplify explaining relationship problems to their husband so I've done that at least 4 times now. Lol

I think AI should be used for things humans can't do easily.

Help you scour the internet. Help you create plans. Help you analyze images for text. Little featured that makes everyday human life easy.

It should not be used for things companies have salaried employees for.

Unless you were planning to hire an assistant who you've now fired, you're doing nothing wrong.

Absolutely not

I feel like people may not know but goblin.tools is a more platable UI wrapper of GPT. If you don’t know how to phrase questions to it, goblin cuts that confusion out and makes it an easier process.

I’m more used to the chat itself but I still use goblin for task breakdowns too. It’s a very cool project.

I started using it for help w executive functioning and make life easier, then i used it to understand my ADHD and then now I use it for therapy reasons, like ones trained w CBT. 1000% recommend using for therapy or just having it listen to you rant or vent about ur frustrations bc it gives gentle reminders that reframe ur thought and help w the negative intense emotions, overwhelm, etc

I use it for everything adhd related tbh

I have seen a lot of ads for Motion which I think is an AI app that designs schedule / manages to-do list. I'm curious if anybody uses that successfully.

That legit sounds cool.... I'm still nervous about AI!!

I use LLM’s (large language models) like chat gpt ALL the time for scheduling and stuff when I’m stressed! Sometimes I even say “I have adhd and am having trouble starting and scheduling my to do list. Can you make me a schedule and include encouragement?” And it makes it SO GOOD 👏

I use it to rewrite my emails to a more professional tone. Besides that I’ve found it kind of lacking.

Another app like this is Goblin Tools, which can break up one task into tiny tasks, depending on the level of help you want. I LOVE IT SFM

This actually gave me an idea 😍 I wanted to create some kind of a food schedule for a week and batch cook, but couldn't get myself to sit and do it.

Now I can just ask ChatGPT to do it for me (why didn't I think of it myself? 😅)

Ooh what exact prompts did you use, if you don’t mind sharing?

Yes! It is awesome for meal planning or idea generation.. ie “i have xyz in the fridge needing to be used up.. give me 2-3 ideas for meals (insert any restrictions ie dairy free or whatever)”.. yiu can even tell them what chefs/blogs you like or cookbooks you own, and ask it to prioritize recipes or even just styles from them.

I also love it to streamline schedules. For example i have a toddler and like to take him to public swims. I have a couple of different pools i like but there is no way on our city website to filter smartly like “whats near me that has a public swim today” .. each pool has their own webpage with a giant table. SO i copy pasted each table into chatGPT, told it to strip out rows /columns that arent relevant (based on criteria i gave), and make a new table i can save on my phone. Now i have a central place i can go if i have spare time but dont feel like doing tons of analysis or research into what my options are 🎉

The other day I wanted a snack at 3 am and was out of ideas. After a bit of brainstorming it helped me remember omelettes are a thing.

Jesus christ yes, I asked it to plan my schedule last weekend and I think it has literally changed my entire life. Vomited out all the things I needed to do but also wanted to do, thinking it would just come back and tell me there's too many things, instead it built me an entire schedule that made sense. It's nuts. It takes so much pressure off to have something else spell things out for you in such a clear way.

Also as a side hack because I literally never bloody considered this before chat gpt presented it to me. I have literally always always thought I had to fully complete my tasks before doing the things I wanted to, then I'd just end up paralysed or getting distracted and definitely never be able to do the things I want in my free time. Never, ever considered breaking up my tasks. Like chat GPT told me to do some chores in the morning, but be ok with not FINISHING the chores, then go out and do something fun/nourishing, come back and do a relaxing activity/hobby, continue chores. It broke it ALL down into time stamped steps, like all the steps of cleaning, cooking etc., in a realistic schedule I was able to mostly follow. And it split my batch cooking into chunks over the two days. It's totally incredible. Maybe I should make my own post about this but yes, chat GPT taught me CHUNKING is key!

I'm a total, total chat GPT stan, literally singing its praises to everyone. There's SO many things it can do and you can basically outsource your executive function to it. I am totally not considering the consequences of AI or how much data it's collecting lol, it just seems like such a good solution to help fill in the gaps of what my (our) brain(s) can't do.

Reddit is so astroturfed by marketing campaigns of the big tech

It was a cool site once and now it’s all sad full of product placements and bots, tumblr I guess we go

Ima be honest. I hate CHATGPT. AI is horrifically bad for the power grid and by extension the environment. Id really discourage anyone from using it for any reason.

It makes me so happy to see how many people are recommending goblin tools:’) there was a time where not many of us knew about it, and I’m so glad to see it become so useful to so many people!

I do this! My job involves a lot of emails and half of the time, I struggle to get my thoughts into a cohesive sentence. Such a time saver.

The amount of energy that AI uses is overwhelming power grids and horrific for the environment. Absolutely NOT.

I use it to answer all my silly questions.

It helps me with maths and figuring out things like ‘how much money will I save in the life of my loan if I pay x amount more each week’

I use it to write emails and customer service messages and also thank you/sorry for your loss stuff.

It helps me think of marketing ideas and flesh out my plans.

Ai is here to stay. May as well use it

AI has helped me write my reports. Not that it writes it for me but I can word vomit at it and then ask it to help me clean it up. It’s also good at catching my run ons and helping me get to the point faster because god knows I like to just make my sentences longer and repeat myself a few times (my Reddit history and this reply will show that).

It also makes me feel like I have a writing buddy when I write and it makes it interactive. I’ve also asked it to give me words when I can’t remember a word I want to use or check how it understands what I’m writing and or if I’m using a word right (some English words I notice are used differently where I am so I have to double check)

It also gives me more time to sleep because instead of agonizing over how to write a sentence or structure. I can write a very messy version of my sentence and have it give me ways I could fix it.

It’s great

I use chatGPT as my personal assistant. I have it plan out my kids wardrobe to buy lists, meal planning, activity/itineraries for trips etc. it's awesome and I can always go in and tweak whatever I need to but I love how it can get the majority of things planned for me so quickly!!

Have you tried the Structured app? It's helpful (when I remember to use it) and there's also a type of AI component that will help plan your schedule.

I use ChatGPT as a french language partner. So good for this since it can speak now! It also creates my workout plans, task lists, travel itineraries, and any and every document revision.