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References: Building Daily Systems

  1. Getting Things Done - Wikipedia - Overview of the productivity method whose capture and next-action ideas this chapter adapts for ADHD brains.

  2. Habit - Wikipedia - The psychology of habit formation — cues, routines, and why automaticity frees executive resources.

  3. Time management - Wikipedia - The broader field this chapter's estimation, timers, and scheduling techniques come from, with research context.

  4. Getting Things Done - David Allen - Penguin - Allen originated the capture principle ("your mind is for having ideas, not holding them") and the next-action question — the two moves this chapter turns into ADHD survival tools, since ADHD brains need externalization more than anyone.

  5. Atomic Habits - James Clear - Avery - Clear popularized habit stacking and environment design ("make it obvious, make it easy") — the anchor-to-existing-habits and friction-engineering techniques this chapter applies to ADHD's faster-fading habit loops.

  6. How to ADHD - Jessica McCabe - The largest library of ADHD-specific systems content: body doubling, externalizing, and toolkit-building in the same spirit as this chapter.

  7. ADDitude Magazine - ADDitude - Clinician-reviewed how-to articles on routines, reminders, body doubling, and the daily mechanics this chapter systematizes.

  8. ADDA - Attention Deficit Disorder Association - Adult-focused productivity resources, virtual body-doubling groups, and peer-tested system advice.

  9. For Adults - CHADD - CHADD - The resource center's adult toolkit pages covering organization, time management, and daily-structure strategies.

  10. Russell Barkley Fact Sheets - russellbarkley.org - The research rationale for externalizing: Barkley's principle that ADHD management means engineering the point of performance, not training willpower.