r/notefulapp

I spent months making an ADHD planner and now I need honest feedback

As someone who most likely has ADHD (not diagnosed), I spent months making a digital planner for people with ADHD while most planners end up overwhelming me eventually 😭 at some point my brain starts seeing planning as a task, and then I spend more energy trying to make pages look nice than actually using the planner.

So while making this, I kept thinking more about what makes people stop using planners in the first place: overwhelm, complicated systems, too many things to track, etc.

And after 6 months of publishing it, I finally filmed a short walkthrough video for it, and now I’m working on updating the planner and creating an undated version based on feedback and real usage instead of just my own ideas.

So I’d genuinely love opinions from people here:
What makes a planner actually usable for you long-term?
What usually makes you stop using one?

I also have a free one-month version + a feedback survey if anyone wants to test it and be brutally honest about what works and what doesn’t.

Thanks in advance!

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u/FickleRub7962 — 16 hours ago

Handwriting Search

Hi, I’ve been using Noteful for a while now. I switched from GoodNotes because I was frustrated with the subscription model. I really like Noteful, but it lacks some features, especially handwritten search. Because of this, I ended up switching back to GoodNotes temporarily, but I returned to Noteful because I enjoyed it more. However, the lack of search has been a hassle. Since I typically only search for keywords, I thought of replacing just those words with text, and I made my own font using Calligraphr so the typed words blend in. I hope this helps someone!

u/SprayDense2185 — 1 day ago