Rize

I'm neurodivergent: autistic & ADHDer, BUT I have the added "feature" of having a high IQ.... meaning I'm FULLY aware of my "lack." Just because I know where my issues are, doesn't mean I always have the capacity to fix them on my own. Literally - I'm a certified life & biz coach - I can help others, but I can't freaking help myself. 🙄 I've tried that many freaking time mgmt strategies, but it wasn't until my diagnosis that I realised that it's a core hallmark trait of both of my disabilities, & how they sometimes work together for pure evil. 👿🤣 (ADHD hyperfocus & squirrel + ASD obsession = 0 exec function)

✅ Family life - I'm a mum to 3 teenagers. We have sooo much going on, with zero fam support - they're all overseas or interstate.
✅ Love my side hustle - not for the cash but because I love building websites. 😁
✅ Work life, I'm a corp marketing manager, so I have a BILLION things on the go.
✅ Friends - have lots, but when you are so busy, how to find the time?
❌ Balance? HA, what's that?
(As you can see, lots to work on. 😜 That's what therapy is for.)

I've been using RIZE now for about 3 weeks. It's helping me to do the following:

💥 see the path I take in my browsing where I get sucked into a rabbit hole of research and/or reading (I see you AppSumo!)
💥 have a concrete figure of how much FREAKING TIME I spend in Outlook (kill me now 💀)
💥 see the actual URLs in my browser where I'm spending my time on my own website (editing? reading? which pages/posts?)
💥 REMIND ME TO TAKE BREAKS... (eating, drinking, occasional trips to the bathroom are ideal bodily functions, but most days, I forget them... thanks hyper-focus, I think you're awesome... but my body disagrees.)
💥 tell me how much time I spend off my screen, thought sometimes isn't necessarily a break
💥 see areas where I need to improve my process so that I can potentially reduce distractions, & more accurately track my time

Things I wish/hope for in future RIZE updates:
(***note: I think all of these are related, but being married to a web dev, I realise some changes might not be related like *I* think they are)

💝 Editing of sessions to be a bit easier/less confusing. I still haven't fully mastered that, & as someone jumps all over the shop, I need a bit more flexibility to do that.
🧡 Ability to differentiate between off-screen time as a break, & off-screen time as productive time, without creating a session - like, just split it. (Ties into the one above I think.)
💛 Ability to add a session without a "type." Ex: add a session in "Email" because my new comp didn't auto-launch RIZE, & it only allowed me to add it as "Email" "Meeting" or "Email" "Focus".... which, it was neither, so I didn't add it.
💚 Examples of customisations or use-cases that other users are employing... It's too overwhelming to start, even though I know I need to customise it.
💙 Ability to edit the break reminder: bigger screen, change tone, louder, etc.

So far though, I'm loving it!