DaySense – ADHD Profile

User-chosen context

Optional labels for attention and pacing

The ADHD profile includes optional labels for the practical shape of the day, such as attention load, switching friction, pacing, and structure. These labels simply keep those details visible in the record when they match your own experience.

You decide which labels belong in the daily record.
DaySense does not use these labels as an assessment or diagnosis.
The labels help later review or optional sharing keep that context visible in the record.

Example of ADHD profile labels for user-entered attention, switching, pacing, and structure context.

How the review works

How this profile works

This profile combines the core daily signals with practical context about distraction, switching load, and regulation so the record reflects more of the real shape of the day over time.

Core signals

Core daily signals

The core daily log gives the profile a broad baseline. Attention, switching, and pacing context can add shape where those inputs are available.

Attention context

Attention load

The profile lets you mark distraction, interruptions, task switching, and time demand so later review can show more than mood alone.

Executive friction

Regulation and pacing

It can also keep pacing and regulation context visible, especially when the day felt unusually unstructured, overloaded, or hard to restart.

What this profile adds

Its real value is helping you capture the practical shape of the day: how attention held up, where switching felt expensive, and whether the day felt structured or overloaded.

Review language

How the review stays calm

The same broad review approach applies across profiles. What changes here is the tracking focus and the context that stays visible in later review.

Settled days

Settled read

Lower-change days

Settled read

Directional changes

Change-led review

Notable changes

Clear deviation

Sleep visibility: Lower logged sleep can make a day read less settled, especially when focus or pacing also felt strained.

Context modifiers

What this profile keeps visible

These are the broad context areas this profile is designed to keep visible.

Modifier	Notes
Attention load	Attention load, interruptions, and switching friction can add practical context where those inputs are available.
Pacing and structure	The record can reflect whether the day felt structured, overloaded, or harder to restart than usual.
Regulation context	Extra context can help explain why a day felt hard without turning the profile into an assessment.
Core baseline	The core daily log carries the experience. Extra context adds shape where it is available.

Design rationale

Why the wording stays restrained

"The ADHD profile is there to make the day easier to review, not more clinical. It gives you better language for switching cost, overload, pacing, and recovery."

This profile is built around everyday ADHD self-tracking rather than formal assessment. It keeps the daily read practical and oriented around attention, execution, and regulation.

That makes it a better fit for users who want focus, pacing, and structure context kept in the record, not flattened into mood or energy alone.

The extra context is there to help the app preserve more of the real shape of the day where those inputs are available.

Review focus

What stays visible over time

Sleep and pacing Switching load Overload and restart friction Routine drift

Review note Longer review works best when there is enough logged history. The goal is to add context, not urgency.

Background reading

Background sources

These sources informed the labels and context included in this profile. They are product-design inputs, not medical guidance, and DaySense does not use them to diagnose, treat, or recommend care.

Hvolby, A. (2015) 'Associations of sleep disturbance with ADHD', ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders, 7(1), pp. 1–18.

Cortese, S. et al. (2006) 'Sleep and alertness in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder', Sleep, 29(4), pp. 504–511.

Langberg, J.M. et al. (2020) 'Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry – medication adherence in adolescents with ADHD', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Becker, S.P. et al. (2024) 'Sleep health in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a narrative review', Sleep Medicine Reviews.

Drake, C.L. et al. (2013) 'Caffeine effects on sleep taken 0, 3, or 6 hours before going to bed', Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 9(11), pp. 1195–1200.