I Tried 113 AI Tools — Here Are the 7 That Actually Helped My ADHD

• Channel: Ruri Ohama
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Overview

Ruri Ohama tested 113 AI tools over several months and narrowed it down to 7 that genuinely help with ADHD — productivity, focus, and executive function support.

Key Takeaways

• Here are the seven ai tools that instantly put my point to you with adhd. for so many ai tools out there, and over the past few months, i tested dozens of them. but most of them don’t really do
• Let’s get started. let’s talk about the first one. i actually barely type anymore. okay, i still type, but it literally cut down 80% of my typing on my keyboard. i essentially dictate what i type using a tool called
• Brain moves and i can use it anywhere, whether that’s laptop or phone. the reason why i like this so much is because literally my thoughts are racing in my head, and i cannot really keep up with my typing
• Procrastinate replying an email all the time. so now what i do is that whenever i get an email, i just voice it date whatever i want to say, and then clean it up with gemini. and the more you
• To give you very generic replies. but the more i use it with busfer flow and actually write like how i talk and how i would respond. i realize that gemini now almost gives perfect answers in a way that
• Is the easiest and fastest way to boost your productivity for today. okay, so we sold the email problem. but the next one is search. and for this one, i use proplexity. this is essentially for my daily search. i
• Find. and google is full of ads, seo garbage, and low quality articles that take forever to extract one simple answer that i’m looking into it. like google has become such an ad space. so if you actually want accurate
• Chatchipt gives like pretty generic surface level answers, and frequently is not up to date. but proplexity is an answer engine optimized for live-up research with stations. so you ask a question, and it does the searching and reading for
• Every single claim on the proplexity’s answer. one of the hacks that i like is setting up a quick shortcut, like command, piqui, to open proplexity anywhere on my computer and search something immediately. honestly, it’s amazing for quick searches,
• Notes that you’re not able to manage. so our next tool is notion ai. if you’re not familiar with notion, notion is basically the only and one tool where you can manage your project, tasks, documents, essentially everything. and i
• To fry things. your notes guess like messed up and you can’t find anything. but with notion ai, it’s one of the fastest ways i’ve found to get the specific answers you need from your notion workspace across all of
• Or update the pages. but oftentimes, i found it notion ai is way more reliable, faster, and more accurate compared to connecting them through mcps, etc. and the specific way that i like to use notion ai is inside my

Transcript

Here are the seven AI tools that instantly put my point to you with ADHD. For so many AI tools out there, and over the past few months, I tested dozens of them. But most of them don’t really do anything. So in this video, I want to share seven that solves a specific problem and my workflow. For each of them, I’m going to share them what they are. The exact use case and how I use it date. Let’s get started. Let’s talk about the first one. I actually barely type anymore. Okay, I still type, but it literally cut down 80% of my typing on my keyboard. I essentially dictate what I type using a tool called Busfer Flow. All you need to do is to press FN key and then just talk and it transcribes everything you said. Almost perfectly. The reason why this is so cool is because it keeps up with how fast my brain moves and I can use it anywhere, whether that’s laptop or phone. The reason why I like this so much is because literally my thoughts are racing in my head, and I cannot really keep up with my typing speed. By the time I finished typing it, I already forgot what I was supposed to write. So the specific workflow that I like is using Busfer Flow with Gemini. And not really the best email responder, and I just procrastinate replying an email all the time. So now what I do is that whenever I get an email, I just voice it date whatever I want to say, and then clean it up with Gemini. And the more you use Gemini, it actually starts learning your patterns and starts to predict how you’re going to respond to that email in your tone of voice. If you don’t use Busfer Flow and voice dictate your thoughts, then Gemini is going to give you very generic replies. But the more I use it with Busfer Flow and actually write like how I talk and how I would respond. I realize that Gemini now almost gives perfect answers in a way that I would reply to them. You can obviously take this further with like AI automation so that you don’t even voice dictate your replies and AI sort of like gives you a draft. But I think for most people, this is the easiest and fastest way to boost your productivity for today. Okay, so we sold the email problem. But the next one is Search. And for this one, I use Proplexity. This is essentially for my daily search. I often find myself in completely irrelevant rabbit holes every time I search something on Google. I open a like once tab, looking something up and end up on like tap 47 or something, and forget what I originally wanted to find. And Google is full of ads, SEO garbage, and low quality articles that take forever to extract one simple answer that I’m looking into it. Like Google has become such an ad space. So if you actually want accurate high quality information on what you’re looking for immediately, then Proplexity is the one. So you want me thinking like, oh, why should I use Proplexity? Why not like CHATCHIPT isn’t it good enough to search stuff? From my experience, CHATCHIPT gives like pretty generic surface level answers, and frequently is not up to date. But Proplexity is an answer engine optimized for live-up research with stations. So you ask a question, and it does the searching and reading for you, and gives you a structured answer with in-line source and cards. And whenever I compare the answers that I get from CHATCHIPT and Proplexity, Proplexity is oftentimes webinar faster and more up to date. And you can also click every single claim on the Proplexity’s answer. One of the hacks that I like is setting up a quick shortcut, like command, piqui, to open Proplexity anywhere on my computer and search something immediately. Honestly, it’s amazing for quick searches, and I think it’s been like months that I use Google for searching things instead of Proplexity. The next thing you have to deal is your notes. Because organizing searches doesn’t make sense if you have a great yard of notes that you’re not able to manage. So our next tool is Notion AI. If you’re not familiar with Notion, Notion is basically the only and one tool where you can manage your project, tasks, documents, essentially everything. And I have everything related business in Notion. So whether it’s video documentations or my creative notes or contracts, whatever, all of them lives inside of Notion. But if you have tried Notion, it can become very complicated and also very slow to fry things. Your notes guess like messed up and you can’t find anything. But with Notion AI, it’s one of the fastest ways I’ve found to get the specific answers you need from your Notion workspace across all of your notes and documents. It can basically search and answer questions using your workspace because it works inside of it. I actually tried to use like other AI tools, connected them to Notion, to find the notes that I want or update the pages. But oftentimes, I found it Notion AI is way more reliable, faster, and more accurate compared to connecting them through MCPs, etc. And the specific way that I like to use Notion AI is inside my cousin system, which is the ADHD friendly planning system I built in Notion. That helps you decide what to do based on urgency, interest and energy instead of just time and just your regular to do list. So every morning, I start my day by brain-domping everything that’s going in my head using whisper flow. Okay, I voice dictate all the choose I have to do all the responsibilities, like everything that is occupying my head. Oh, I wanted you to pay that bill, I need to do that thing to send that. So I voice dictate everything so that I get out in front of me and it’s clear. Right, without Notion AI, I would have to sort them, organize them, and then figure out what I need to do. But what I do right now is I ask Notion AI to turn this into task, group similar items, and then sort by urgency, and what kind of energy they require for me. And it automatically creates like list of the things and cleans up everything I said. From there, I can just drag and drop to my task database that is also inside of my cousin system. So in like a minute, it turns all the scatter things in my head to an organized task introduced that I need to do. This workflow actually allowed me to procrastinate less because it reduces the friction of planning, which is the thing that I hate. Planning and organizing is actually one of the most important things that we need to spend more time, especially if you are a pro procrastinator like me. But even true pro procrastinator like me, you most sort of time procrastinate on building to plan itself. So the key is the reduced friction of getting started as much as you can. And Notion AI is perfect for that. And it actually works amazing with my cousin system. If you want to learn more about my cousin system and why it makes it such a big difference for ADHD brains, I have a full dedicated video about it. You can watch it from here. If you’re interested, you can also go to my website at riohama.com. Quick note, though, Notion AI is a separate add-on you buy from Notion. Not from me. So speaking of Notion, it also has a meeting subscriber as well. Whenever you have a meeting, you can let Notion AI join to the meeting and you can let it transcribe the whole meeting. It works well. It is nice, but I personally prefer Granola. And the reason is actually quite simple. Notion gives you transcriptions after the meeting. But Granola works during the meeting as well, which is a huge difference for me. Because when never like more than three people joins the meeting, I just like zone out and sometimes miss the whole conversation. I’m like, what were we talking about? If you’re like that and if you also get distracted easily, then Granola is an amazing tool. Granola is essentially an AI note pad. You take notes during the meeting like you would on any normal note pad. And Granola enhances those notes after the meeting with the full context of what was actually being set. It basically like transcribes your computer auto directly. So no but like joins your call and disturbs everyone. It works on Mac, on iOS, for in-person meetings as well. And across Zoom, Google Meet Slack. Like every video conferencing platform you use. Even Granola does not really join as a bot to your calls. You obviously need to let other people know that you’re transcribing the meeting and get their permission. You know, because that’s just right thing to do. Let me show you what it actually looks like. Let’s say you had a meeting. And you have notes that are quite messy and scattered during the call. Some of them are half sentences or maybe bullet points because, you know, you’re trying to focus on the conversation. So what Granola can do is that you can give you a structured, or organized notes after your meeting. It pulls out the action items, follow up items, and every single messy bullet point you write gets expanded into full context of what you’ve actually discussed with the other person. And the part that I actually really like and bill for ADHD brains is the recipe feature. Basically, the recipes are pre-made prompts. You can run before during or after a meeting. And there are three specific ones that I quite like for ADHD. So the first one is called what the diagnosis. So when you’re like zoning out on the conversation and you’re like, oh, what was the thing that they were talking about? You can just like click onto the what the diagnosis button and Granola summarizes what just happened in the last few minutes so that you catch up on the call. You can also like use this in live lectures as well, as long as it’s a Zoom call or something. So you can catch up on the things that are going on. Or online webinars or online events. All of them, you can use this. And I think it’s a big game changer. And this is one of the big features of big differentiators than other meeting transcribers. Because all of them just transcribes, but this actually works inside of the call. So whenever you’re like getting distracted or getting bored, you can always use Granola to ask questions and be actually focused on the call. The second one is suggesting topics. So let’s say maybe it’s with a friend or maybe with a client you want to build report. But you’re not really sure about what to talk or maybe you’re just a little bit anxious when it comes to meetings. So you can click the suggest topics button. And it will suggest you topics based on the conversation that you’re having. And it’s not going to give you like random topics which is really helpful. The third one is make me sound smart. I know it has a cheesy name. It basically structures your thoughts in real time. And it basically organizes your thoughts so that you can present them or particularly on the call, which is also very helpful. Because most of the time I have like 100 ideas and articulating them, sometimes it comes very hard for me,

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