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How Pufffi helps

If you know what you need to do but somehow can't get started — find specific situations, small doable first steps and how Pufffi can help. Pufffi is not treatment or therapy, but it can make the next step visible. Pick a situation that feels familiar.

Why can starting a task feel so hard with ADHD?

A task can look simple from the outside while starting it requires several processes to cooperate: holding the goal in mind, choosing a first action, switc…

Need routine, yet find it hard to maintain?

AuDHD is a community term often used when autism and ADHD occur together. Some people describe a tension between needing predictability and finding the sam…

Looking for autism-friendly support with everyday tasks?

A task tool is only useful if it does not make the day more unpredictable. A clear order, unambiguous wording and seeing only the information you need may …

How do you break a big task into small steps?

Tasks such as “move house,” “do my taxes” or “clean the flat” are actually projects. They do not tell you what to touch first, which makes them easy to pos…

Does an everyday task contain too many hidden steps?

Instructions such as “get ready,” “tidy up” or “sort it out” contain many unspoken decisions. They do not reveal where to begin, which order to follow or w…

Can’t decide which task to do first?

Choosing can become a bigger obstacle than doing. When several tasks matter, every choice means allowing something else to wait. It is easy to keep compari…

Does your daily routine fall apart after a few days?

A new routine is often designed for an ideal day: you wake on time, nothing unexpected happens, your energy is stable and every step stays in place. In rea…

Don’t know where to start tidying?

In a messy room, every object asks for attention at the same time. Clothes, cups, papers and half-finished activities each require a separate decision, so …

Is it hard to stay with one task?

Attention may move quickly toward a notification, background sound or new thought. At other times, you may become so absorbed that stopping on time is diff…

Is it hard to stop one thing and begin the next?

Switching tasks is not one movement. You must close or safely pause the current activity, shift context and find the first action in the next one. An ordin…

Keep forgetting what you need to do?

A task is often missed not because it is unimportant, but because you remember it at the wrong moment. By the time you could act, something else has taken …

Want to make your daily routine more predictable?

A routine is more than a schedule. It shows what will happen, in what order and when an activity can be considered finished. When that information exists o…

No energy, but a few things still need doing?

Some days, an ordinary task feels disproportionately large. On those days, a complete daily list may not motivate you; it may look like evidence of everyth…

Too many tasks at once — and you freeze instead?

When everything feels important, choosing one place to begin can become impossible. More tasks keep appearing in your head, and the list makes the noise lo…

Keep putting off household chores?

Housework is rarely a one-off project with a satisfying permanent finish. By the time one chore is done, it will soon need doing again. That can make start…

Are school tasks and deadlines scattered everywhere?

Homework may arrive in a notebook, school platform, group message or spoken instruction. The difficult part is often not studying itself, but gathering the…

How can your family share chores without one person carrying the whole plan?

Housework is more than the action someone eventually performs. Someone must notice, plan, remind and check that it happened. This invisible coordination ca…

Do you start everything but struggle to finish?

The beginning of a new task can be interesting and clearly defined, while finishing often leaves small, unrewarding details. Putting tools away, sending th…

Tired of repeatedly reminding your child about every task?

Repeated reminders can exhaust both of you. The parent feels nothing happens without constant supervision, while the child eventually hears the tension rat…

You know what you need to do, but you still can’t get started?

The task may not even be particularly difficult. Yet it stays untouched while you rearrange something else, open another tab or wait to feel ready. Knowing…

Can switching from one activity to another feel especially hard?

Ending one activity and beginning another contains several tasks: noticing that a transition is approaching, closing or parking the current activity, under…

Does it always feel as if there is more time than there really is?

You may know exactly when you need to leave and still begin one more activity first. Or a task that felt short consumes the entire afternoon. Your sense of…

Tired of trying yet another productivity app?

The cycle may be familiar: you find a promising app, spend hours configuring it, import your tasks, use it enthusiastically for a few days, then miss one. …

Does opening your to-do list already feel like too much?

A long list is meant to relieve your memory. In practice, it can display every delay, decision and expectation at once. Before opening it, you may already …

Too many thoughts and tasks competing in your head?

A useful idea, a phone call, a shopping item and tomorrow’s deadline can all appear at once. When you try to retain every thought, returning to the current…