ADHD Calendar & Tracker 4+

Changed my life

Used to do this on pen and paper for ages. Never could find the app that did it quite this way. I’m giving it five stars for the unique visual system and message it promotes. I have this on my Apple Watch and I always have a sense of where I am during the day — I use this to block out different creative activities during the day (like drawing, writing, etc) and to make sure I also eat regularly. This visual rhythm gives me a sense of closure to what I’m doing when the time block changes, allowing me to move on knowing I’ve spent enough time (e.g.) drawing today to be satisfied knowing I’ve spent my 24 hours the way I wanted to.

Side note: Would love to edit my day plans once saved. Would love the chance of using SF symbols instead of emojis (my workaround is Unicode characters for the moment). Would love syncing across iPad and Mac. Would love CSV export so I could make charts and see trends of each month (I’m a data nerd). Extra, not necessary, would love to send a link to my family so they can see where I am during the day without having to sign up (they’re not tech savvy). Thanks Owaves team. Hope this app flourishes forever. 🌸

Fantastic for ADHD!

This app is amazing! I have ADHD and like a lot of ADHD folks have a lot of issues with keeping track of time. This app allows you to easily visualise a day and it’s so easy to move and change the duration of the events you put into it! And all the notifications and alerts follow when you move stuff! It deffo needs a way of syncing between devices but I know that’s being worked on so can’t wait for that!

I do have one suggestion though. It would be great if you could add to-do lists or checklists inside of events with a tab somewhere that pulls together all the various todo lists and colour codes them and orders them by time. I think this would be great for ADHD peeps as it will help to break down tasks into smaller bits which we can struggle with!

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Developer Response ,

Hi Brain Andy! Thank you so much for taking the time to send such a positive and thoughtful review of Owaves our way! 🙏 We're so glad that the app helps you visualize your day and that you find it easy to use! Yes, we are working on iPad-iPhone parity, so that our iPad version is up-to-date with (and can sync with) our iPhone version! We are aiming to release this updated iPad version alongside our newest iPhone release in January 2021! Please feel free to stay in the loop with app updates at owaves.com/news. Thank you also for your feature suggestion of to-do lists/checklists inside the app! Mikaela from Team Owaves commenting here--I will be sure to pass along this thoughtful suggestion to the rest of the Owaves Team! Thanks again, be well, and happy planning! 😊
Sincerely,
Mikaela, on Behalf of Team Owaves ⏰📱

A wonderful digital time planner

This app is brilliant. If you like the idea of time blocking but find you schedule is too changeable for paper time blocking this app is perfect. If a event or task takes more or less time you can change your day easily without having to rewrite the whole thing multiple time, You can also sink it with your phone calendar so that saves you typing. The only thing that would make it even better would be cloud sinking so you can see your circles on multiple devices and the ability to change the standard text for some of the icon, maybe even add a standard picture to them.