Life after brain injury – one small victory at a time.
lend-central vision
agree workplace adjustments
Blue badge
choosing between options
crab walking
Current Tasks list
Driving license
Email handling
finding things
Headway card
how to help me help you document
Kit lists
Magnetic whiteboard sheets
Mindmaps
Notability for Problem solving
PIP
Rail discount and travel assistance
Recumbent Tricycle
Register partially sighted
resolving complexity
standard memory techniques
Support groups
Take a good brain with you
The power of a smart watch
Using tech for day to day life
Harvesting
phone foci
bright eyecatchers / objects out of place
calming familiar music
attenuator
Hub of everything
Recumbent Trike
BOSCAR
6 day calendar
Harvesting
ChatGPT
free prescriptions
prescription / medication organisation
grouping core apps on phone
Heavy cutlery
Adjust forearm limb orientation
Transcription footpedal
Wordle
Human benchmark
Watch Torch
Do not disturb settings
phone and watch navigation combo
cygwin find search
voice memos
in-trays
download voice memos via itunes
sleep app
geographical phone and watch apps
activity and fitness apps
Transfer phone documents via USB or SD card adapter
Quiet place audio dictation
Organising medication
Reasonable adjustment document
Help you to help me document
recruit drivers
gym membership
Afternoon nap
Walking directions home
End of life plan
Allow a disproportionately large amount of time
Within standard mind map use, be sure to add new items back into the master.
Quick summary: A medication mistake revealed that my problem was not simply forgetting tablets. I was losing my place in the sequence. A new pill organiser, bought for travel convenience, unexpectedly offered a simple solution: raising the next compartment so the organiser remembers the process when my brain cannot.
My recent posts about “the email beast” and “email labelling” (see below) have been paving the way for this post that shows how I use email labelling and filtering together to create bookmarked dashboards.
Labelling brought order, but it did not change how I began the day. I was still opening my inbox and scanning.
What shifted things for me was not a new label, but a saved search.
Over time, I built search expressions that gather together the messages most likely to require my attention. Instead of starting with the whole inbox, I now start with that one view.
What my most frequently used dashboard Includes
• Unread messages in Primary
• Unread Forum activity
• Drafts I am working on
• Items labelled Follow-Up
• Items labelled Ongoing Topic
• Items labelled Today
For a long time, getting to sleep was less about tiredness and more about what my mind chose to do when the lights went out. Thoughts would arrive uninvited — sometimes anxious ones, sometimes creative ones. Ideas, phrases, connections. Perfectly reasonable thoughts, just turning up at the wrong time.
What I needed was not silence, but less space for those thoughts.
The core of the strategy is simple.
I begin at 1000 and slowly subtract 3 each time:
1000, 997, 994, 991, and so on.
