My partner has ADHD, and making a list does help them, but there's two tricks to it. 1, I need to do it with them to keep them on track. 2, we start by listing things in order of importance and I stress that once the tasks are on the page, that's where they live. Only when we cross one out to start the task does it exist. It helps (as much as possible) my partner focus on one task by telling their brain that the other tasks are stored somewhere else and there is only the one task to think about.
It's kind of an involved process, but once they get started they usually finish the whole list without any help to keep them on track.
My partner has ADHD, and making a list does help them, but there's two tricks to it. 1, I need to do it with them to keep them on track. 2, we start by listing things in order of importance and I stress that once the tasks are on the page, that's where they live. Only when we cross one out to start the task does it exist. It helps (as much as possible) my partner focus on one task by telling their brain that the other tasks are stored somewhere else and there is only the one task to think about.
It's kind of an involved process, but once they get started they usually finish the whole list without any help to keep them on track.