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The ADHDer’s Guide to Building the Ultimate Everyday Carry Kit for Supercharged Productivity Without Forgetting Anything

Gray Miller
Humans with ADHD
Published in
9 min readAug 2, 2024

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There’s the feeling you have, and the feeling you want.

Here’s the feeling I bet you’re familiar with: you’ve rushed out the door with just enough time to make your appointment. It’s an important one, and you’ve worked hard on getting ready for it, but this morning was just kind of extra hectic. You get to the appointed place, you open up your bag…and realize it’s not there.

What is “it”?

“It” changes from time to time, from person to person. It might be a folder with an important document. It might be the power adapter for your device that has your notes that somehow is at 10% battery. It might be your medication. For me, “it” has been all those things, and “it” has also been my bike lock, my watch, my wallet, my coffee, and on occasion, my daughter (I have four daughters, and two are twins, so it’s ok, I have spares.)

And that feeling is why there’s a certain genre of content that has been written, spoken, photographed and videoed in thousands of ways. A type of organizational pornography that is usually, but not entirely, directed at men, that promises a world where “it” is never, ever left behind.

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Gray Miller
Humans with ADHD

Gray is a former Marine dancer grandpa visualist who writes to help adults figure out what they want to be when they grow up.