Your planning style
Curiosity and finishing can share the day. Before researching, decide what you need to find out and what would be enough to take the next step.
Before a detour, leave a return note: “Back to the draft: choose the opening example”. Research on interruptions supports making a plan for resuming unfinished work.
What you bring
Looking beyond the first answer can reveal a better fit. Give yourself room to compare approaches, especially when you’re learning something unfamiliar.
Bring back one useful finding. A sentence about what changed your thinking is easier to reuse than another row of open tabs.
What to watch for
An interesting question can become your next task before you decide to switch. Capture optional detours and revisit them at a sensible stopping point.
Ask what information could still change your decision. For a low-stakes choice, a small experiment may help more than further browsing. Important, hard-to-reverse decisions deserve more checking.
3 small things to try
Leave a return address. Before a detour, write one sentence about what you were doing next.
Keep a curiosity list. Capture the link or question without opening every door immediately.
Choose a stopping point. Decide what “enough to try” looks like before you start researching.
ADHD-friendly ways to stay on track
Give yourself fewer things to filter out. Close unrelated tabs, quiet nonessential notifications, and keep the question you’re answering in view for a short stretch.
Leave a return note before following a detour: “Read the last paragraph, then add the example”. It’s a practical interruption strategy you can try when getting back into a task takes effort.
Research behind these suggestions
This quiz is just for fun and self-reflection. It doesn’t define your personality or provide a diagnosis or medical advice. Take what feels useful and leave the rest.
Make it yours in Interval.
Keep your detours in a task note and give the original task a loose place in your day.
Start with one small thing
