Before I started taking Adderall I needed to make a ToDo list for everything. When I am on Adderall I dont need to make a list to do anything, I just know what I need to do, and it gets done.

Now that I dont have health coverage anymore, I am back to the old lists. Any suggestions on how to get myself to work the list instead of just make it and then put it away?

On medicatiuons I still have to make "to-do" list....the big differnce is on medications I remember to actually look at them!

Well, I'm not on medications so I make to do lists all the time

The big thing I have realized is that making a to do list for each day doesn't work for me. I make a list for the entire week and just put important things on it like appts or things I HAVE to do that week.

If I start making a list of things to do and I put everything on it, I find I start inventing things to do so that I have a list so long even a non ADD person couldn't do it. I'm still working on some kind of schedule I can live with. I'm also considering getting a palm or something with alarms to remind me when I need to be doing something.

To do lists don't work for me. I rebel against them. Even if I decide that the list is not definite, but more of a suggestion. I tried to write some kind of loose plan/to do list a while back keeping this in mind; saying to myself "This is not set in stone. It's just a suggestion.", but I still got this uncomfortable feeling; like something's hindering me and deciding over me and I'm not free.

I can write small notes to remind myself like "N.B. Post letter!" and I have a paper stuck to the fridge where I listed a number of household chores, many very simple, and when I do something on it I get to put up a sticker. There's no pressure though.

I try to-do-lists and they don't work for me either, I forget about them. I just use post it notes and stick them in places where I will see them. I rely upon reminders and routines.

i try but usually end up doing on thing outta like 20, also have a real bad habbit of losing the lists and sometimes i get m8s that change them slightly so when i notice this i just completely ignore them

I have been a big user of to do lists over the years. At first, I would only put the essential items that I wanted to complete on a given day. If I wasn't committed to doing it, I wouldn't put it on the list.

After a period of years, I somehow got to putting non-essential items on the list. My daily to do list probably has at least 40 to 50 items! I end up doing the low priority items and procrastinate on the significant items that need done. I've been told to make a list of only six items that I truly want to do during the day. I'm reading the latest book by Dr. Hallowell (Crazy Busy) and I hope I can get some help from it.

Try the computer online planner by Franklin Covey. I think its called plans plus. It has a master to do list and a daily to do list. They are the same page so you can just click from one to the other and switch them from one list to the other with one easy click. Its main to do list page has To Do, Calendar and notes on one easy page. It rules my life!

lists don't work for me that well either. I really really reply on my mobile phone which has a great in-built reminder system..I add every new appointemnt in that, as I have it with me all the time..it beeps me the morning of something important! I have a chores roster for the kids though :-)