ADHD - equipment/reasonable adaptions

[JudgeRudy]

I have started a new job that i have previously performed well at, however lm now working in a very different environment. As well as being quite stressful there are additional very strict rules and regs to adhere to. One of these is no devices that have internet connectivity.
My executive function is poor so whilst the actually 'job delivery' bit is going well, the planning and organisation isn't! I hadn't realised how much I relied on my mobile phone and I'm lost. I have bits of paper coming out of my ears. I struggle too with time management. I have ASD with touch sensitivity and would struggle to wear a watch. I did buy a cheap bedside alarm....and lost it.
I'm not particularly tech savvy so unsure what l need...other than a secretary. Is there such a thing as maybe a tablet that I could use to take notes, use as a diary, alarm etc.....maybe even vouce record, a sort of electronic filofax?
I can download programs (l think) but it cannot have Internet connectivity. Does such a device exist? I can't bear one more postit floating in my bag with unreadable scribble (I have poor hand writing)

Is there any computer hardware provided to do the job or do you do everything on paper?

If there is something provided can you use a notepad function or similar on it?

If not, can you get an A4 jotter? Or a hardback notebook and some sticky-dividers?

If you can tell us about the nature of the job - are you handling inbound requests, managing cases over more than one day, coordianting other peope to do things? That sort of idea. Will help us to suggest useful tools.

I also have ADHD but no such office restriction.

I'm teaching in a prison. I'm not always in the same classroom and I have limited access to a shared PC outside of the classroom. When in the classroom I'm 'locked in' and isolated. The lessons are primarily paper led and each learner has a ton of paperwork in a folder.
The things I struggle with are time management (it's quite disorientating being isolated) and taking notes during lesson for feedback eg Prisoner A seemed agitated, Prisoner B participated well with pair work etc.
In the past, I'd set my phone to vibrate when eg setting an exercise for self directed learning. I'd also text myself messages as ideas or info popped up. I had my scheme of work on my calander and would essentially have an electronic diary. My handwriting is poor and I'm finding myself rewriting things a lot as i tend to think, no actually thats not what i meant...or 'oh i know, lll.....resulting in the need for a lot of shredding. I can't 'edit' anything once it's done. Obs there's a need for confidentiality and it worries me carrying around lots of bits of paper.
I guess what I need is a calander, a diary, a 'to do' list and a 'have done' list (learning and behaviour), with removable/editable pages!

Filofax and clicky Frixion pen? (Not the ones with a cap, it'll just get lost.) Do Filofax still exist?

Buy a large a4 diary which has hour by hour which you can use like your electronic diary. You could use post it’s within that if you need more space. Normally they have notes section to. Or like this 2 pages per day - one for timetables and one for to do list https://amzn.eu/d/3eBGHlC

Can you use a Dictaphone to make voice notes, and transcribe them later?

Or could you use something like Canva to design your own planner/note pad with the sections you need.

No internet connectivity as in turned off, or as in not possible at all?

eg. a tablet with just wifi?

This is going to sound strange, but consider kids devices like a Kindle Fire, as it's also desirable that children can't freely access the internet.

I've done some work in prisons and it's a pain. So many things are banned.

I'd go old school with a Moleskine and a pen. A combo calendar/notes one. The handwriting and the confidentiality could be helped (at the same time) with some kind of shorthand. I have ADHD and think the handwriting being messy is because my brain works faster than my hands. So I invented my own very weird note system where words are condensed. You can 'catch up' with your brain then. Just invent symbols for everyday words you use. And if you just want to remember how the people were in the lesson, use emojis.

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I loved teaching in prison (I was a volunteer) though because so many of the people are neurodiverse, particularly ADHD so you can really help. You know what it's like to struggle with this stuff.

Like this.

The timing self-directed work I tend anyway to give 'around' a time and then see how people are doing. Say, "people seem to be finishing, do you need one more minute?" Type of thing.

I have heard of people using the retro Psions. Digital so saves the handwriting but as so old no way to connect to the internet you can have diary, notes etc type psion into eBay and you will see what I mean.

Could you do bullet journalling? Very short bullet point notes that you cross off when you complete them.

For your prisoners, you could have a file with subsections and have section for each student.