About MuddleMend
How MuddleMend approaches ADHD tech.
MuddleMend helps ADHD adults build digital setups and systems for everyday ADHD support.
What MuddleMend Is
MuddleMend translates everyday and emerging technology into practical cognitive accessibility for neurodivergent people and the organisations that support them.
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For individuals
Design and implement technology-supported accommodations for everyday ADHD friction.
Tech Consults → -
For organisations and educators
Understand and apply emerging technology to reduce cognitive barriers and support neurodivergent people more effectively.
Work with MuddleMend →
For individuals, most of it applies to personal and study life: home, daily routines, and the parts of learning that ask a lot of memory, reading, and deadlines.
Phones, reminders, Focus Modes, automations, NFC tags, smart-home tools, calendars, notes apps, and digital workflows can all be configured to support remembering, getting started, transitions, routines, sensory needs, and executive-function load.
The aim is not to get more done. It is to build support systems that reduce friction and make everyday life less reliant on memory, willpower, and perfect routines.
The Missing Middle
A lot of ADHD advice tells us what to do, but not how to make it work.
A lot of technical documentation jumps straight to which buttons to press. The hard part is everything in between.
Generic Advice
Too vague
"Use a planner" or "try to be more consistent" can sound helpful, but it skips why the last attempt fell apart and leaves the how entirely up to you.
Tool Documentation
Too feature-led
Official guides explain the tech, menus, and settings. They rarely translate any of it into an actual ADHD support need.
MuddleMend
The translation layer
MuddleMend sits in the missing middle: ADHD accommodation translated into practical, buildable phone, smart-home, and digital systems.
Where to start
Not sure what you need yet? That's a normal place to begin, and you do not need a plan before you start.
Pick whichever card sounds most like you, and it will point you to the part of MuddleMend that fits.
Start with the idea, not the tech.
If "ADHD tech accommodation" sounds useful but vague, begin here. These articles and short videos show what practical support can look like in a real week, without asking you to buy anything, download anything, or change your whole life.
Start here: What is ADHD and how can tech help? →
Start with a guide.
You might already know the hard moment: remembering, getting started, switching tasks, holding onto a thought, or making a room feel more usable.
MuddleMend guides are practical, buildable setups with the taps and settings spelled out. You can start with your phone, your home, or one small part of the day that keeps asking too much of you.
Start here: Shortcuts, Automations & NFC for ADHD →
Start with a workshop or session.
Sometimes the hard part is not learning another app. It is working out what would actually help, and where to begin.
Workshops help you understand a technology and set it up with guidance. Tech Consults, coming soon, are one to one sessions for working out what would help with your own hard moment.
In a group: See upcoming workshops →
One-to-one: Tech Consults: register your interest →
The MuddleMend Method
The guides, workshops, and Tech Consults all begin in the same place: one real moment that is asking too much of you.
The method
Map → Build → Adjust
- Map. Identify the hard moment, and what it is asking your brain to remember, start or push through.
- Build. Set up practical support that could carry some of that load.
- Adjust. Check what helps and adapt. Keep it, change it, simplify it, or let it go.
The standard
Good enough to actually use
The goal is not a perfect system.
It is one support that makes one real moment a little easier, especially on the days when your brain has less to give.
Keep what helps. Change what adds friction. If something stops fitting, the support can change. You do not need to change yourself to suit it.
Watch the MuddleMend approach
A short explainer on turning everyday technology into ADHD support.
Why Motivation Feels So Hard with ADHD
Why starting can be the hardest part, and what that means for the supports you build. Worth watching before the others, because it explains what they are trying to take off your plate.
Shortcuts, Automations and Workflows for ADHD
What's the difference, and why it matters when you're building a support.
NFC Tags for ADHD
What they are and how one small tap can turn a stuck moment into a starting point.
More videos on the MuddleMend YouTube channel (opens in new tab).
Who's behind MuddleMend
MuddleMend is built by Eleanor, an Australian learning technologist and digital accessibility practitioner with a focus on ADHD and cognitive accessibility.
MuddleMend grew from both professional practice and lived experience. It started with a familiar ADHD problem: knowing what needed to happen, but not always being able to reliably make it happen. Instead of asking the brain to try harder, everyday technology could be configured to carry more of the remembering, prompting and starting.
That idea became MuddleMend: a place where learning technology, inclusive design, digital accessibility, cognitive accessibility, and assistive technology come together to create ADHD supports.
Eleanor is an award-winning speaker on ADHD and cognitive accessibility, winner of the 2026 AADPA Best Oral Presentation Award.
See Eleanor's talks →(opens in new tab)MuddleMend is educational and accommodation focused. It does not provide diagnosis, therapy or clinical treatment, and is designed to sit alongside clinical care rather than replace it. Full disclaimer
Where MuddleMend comes in
Accessibility, not productivity
Productivity advice says: you're capable, here's how to do more.
Accessibility says: this moment is asking too much of you, here's how to make it ask less.
Productivity asks you to do more. Accessibility changes the environment so you don't have to.