ADHD for researchers
ADHD researchers frozen between endless literature deep dives and an untouched manuscript draft..
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Spark turns the thing you're stuck on into one 2-minute move. First month $4.50, cancel anytime.
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What's actually hard
- •Sinking four hours into hyper-focusing on tangentially related papers while the core methodology section remains unwritten.
- •Dreading raw data cleaning so intensely that you freeze before even opening your analysis software.
- •Watching manuscript submission deadlines loom while paralysed by the volume of chaotic, unorganised notes.
How Spark fits into your day
- Run a 2-minute Literature Review Starter to pull one key reference and write a single summary sentence.
- Use the Data Prep Sprint to clean just three rows of a dataset without getting pulled into full-scale analysis.
- Generate a Discussion Section Template that turns intimidating grant proposals or papers into bite-sized writing prompts.
Break the freeze at your desk
Spark helps researchers bypass executive dysfunction and turn overwhelming academic projects into low-friction, two-minute actions. It works alongside your analytical wiring to convert deep research into finished manuscripts. 2-minute first moves, on your phone, no planning required.
Transition between tasks with a short ritual: close the previous task, take a 2-minute movement break, and name the next first step. The ritual gives the brain a bridge between two different mental states. Without it, the previous task lingers and the next one never starts.
ADHD guilt comes from the gap between intention and action. You meant to do the thing, you planned to do the thing, and then you didn't. Repeatedly. That gap feels like a moral failure, but it is actually a neurochemical gap between intention and initiation. Naming the gap reduces the shame.
Frozen and can't start a single task? This is ADHD task paralysis. Here are 4 steps that work in the next 2 minutes.