Reginald!
An app of tools for ADHD, by ADHD

An Important Note From the Developer On the Intentions of the Reginald! app

(and a Medical Disclaimer!)

"Reginald! is a suite of tools built from my own experiences of living as an ADHD-person and trying to find resources and methods to help, while often finding they just don’t work for me in reality. The Reginald! app is designed to support, not replace, professional medical management. Any suggestions, ideas, or claims within any of the text on this site, other promotional materials, or the app itself, are only to be taken as my opinion from my experience, not as medical advice or treatment, or verified solutions, or cures. 

“I’ve done my best to build something useful for anyone who, like me, struggles with life in a neurotypical-centric world. I won’t always get it right, and what works for me might not work for you. I am not a doctor, therapist, or any other kind of medical professional, and nor would I pretend to be. You should always consult such professionals with any medical condition; please don’t rely on me, the Reginald! app, (or the Reggie character!), or any other unqualified person or app!

“As for what I actually am, I’m just a late-diagnosed, ADHD-person (possibly also Autistic, but that’s another story), trying to do something to make life a bit easier for people like me. 

“I hope somewhere within Reginald! there is something that helps you. The world needs us neurodivergent-people to help keep it sane.” 

- Martin Flett, Developer of the Reginald! app.

Reginald!: tools for ADHD and other neurodivergent-people to help with everyday life in the real-world.

The Reginald! app provides a suite of tools designed to help neurodivergent people, particularly those with ADHD, with difficulties they often face in daily life. As its developer is an ADHD-person, the app has at its heart the particular problems and pitfalls our brains often face so it can help in the real world, not just in theory!

The seven main tools within Reginald! provide ADHD-friendly takes on some commonly-helpful utilities, as well as some more specialised ones, and puts them all in one place. No more hunting for or managing multiple apps!

The Reginald! App's Main Tools:

Emotions Check:

Track your emotions over time to spot potential patterns or triggers, and provide some support in times of overwhelm.

Features:

• schedule Emotions Checks and receive notifications to complete them.

• record an initial, overall feeling about your emotions.

• search according to emotion name, synonym, or physical sensation/thoughts and add them to the emotions record if desired.

• check definitions of emotions to understand whether it applies.

• view statistics and graphs about our emotions and their causes over time.

Emotional dysregulation can be a huge issue for neurodivergent-people, particularly in ADHD-people, who often feel things very intensely and suddenly. (And we can't always even recognise we've ever felt any other way, or ever will again! Gee, thanks, 'time-blindness'!)

Emotions Check allows us to track our emotions over time to create a record of how we’ve felt and anything that may have caused our emotions (so we might be able to replicate, or avoid them, in the future!).

However, since we have ADHD, we might not keep up to the chore of regularly logging our emotions, adding feelings, times, causes etc. So, Reggie keeps it simple: any Emotions Check can be a single-click answer to one question: right now, would you say you like, dislike, or are neutral about how you feel? That’s it! Then, if you would like to add more detail, you can. Keeping it quick, easy, and using as little of our previous executive function as possible.

The information is then available to view, with statistics for different, selectable time periods, that include:

• how many times we like, dislike, or are neutral about our emotions.

• date ranges for the periods where we liked or disliked our emotions most often.

• the most commonly-chosen strength of our emotions.

• the average time it takes us to recover from disliking our emotions to either feeling neutral, or liking them again.

• the most common day on which we like or dislike our emotions.

• average time of day at which we like or dislike our emotions.

The information can also be viewed in a variety of graphs for selectable time periods, showing:

• our initial feelings over time.

• the strength of feelings over time.

• the number of times each emotion has been recorded, filterable by those we’ve liked or disliked.

• the number of times any cause of our emotions has been recorded, filterable by liked or disliked.

You can schedule as many Emotions Checks as you want throughout the day (knowing that emotions can change frequently with ADHD!), as well as manually completing them whenever you like.

Recognising and naming our emotions can also be challenging for ADHD or other neurodivergent people. So, Reginald! includes a list of 71 emotions, along with 219 synonyms/alternative words for them, all of which are searchable and selectable, depending on which you feel is most appropriate. You don’t have to type in your own list - they’re already there for you. 

Each emotion includes a definition so you can check that the Reginald! app’s interpretation aligns with your own, or whether another emotion might be a better fit. 

And, in case you’re simply not sure what you’re feeling, there is a list of 127 physical sensations and thoughts that commonly occur with emotions, so you can search through, tick any you are experiencing, and see which emotions might apply so you can choose those that resonate with how you feel.

The point of all this? To help us remember what we felt, recognise what might have caused it, give us ideas of how to improve our mood in the future, and to provide evidence that, in our darker moments, we haven’t always felt that way and so will likely feel differently again. And it might not even be that long.

Emotions Check Sub-Tools:

• a guided breathing tool to help in moments of emotional overwhelm or crisis.

• a ‘distraction’ feature to use during moments of impulsivity to allow reasoning and/or rationality a chance to catch-up!

• a journal for recording more detail associated with an Emotion Check, or as a space to write down and process thoughts and feelings at any time.

Focus Time:

A focus-and-break timer to give space from digital distractions to allow ADHD-friendly ‘sprints’ of focused work, and regular, short breaks.

Features:

• set periods of time for focused-work from 5 to 60 minutes, with choices every 5 minutes in between.

• set break times to occur after focused-work periods from 5 to 30 minutes, with choices for every 5 minute period in between. Choose whether break times start automatically, or manually.

• set whether notifications are dismissed automatically during focused-work periods to minimise distractions.

• specify apps and contacts that are allowed to interrupt focused-work periods.

• option to select from a range of background sounds to play during focused-periods and break times (if desired). Sounds include: white noise, rainfall, and ocean waves.

ADHD-brains are wired in such a way that, when we do focus, we often get more done than many people would in the same amount of time. Which is where problems can arise: if we force ourselves to be that super-productive ADHD-machine all the time, we can end up exhausted – or worse – completely burnt-out.

ADHD-people often work best in sprints – short bursts – rather than marathon-like long stretches. So, by doing multiple short periods of work, with breaks in between, we can set a better pace overall, achieve just as much (if not more!), and not end up worn out and no good for anything.

It also helps prevent us being overwhelmed by the thought of hours-and-hours of tedious grind stretching out in front of us, since it won’t be long before we have a break! And those breaks are just as important as the work: don’t minimise them or skip them. Our brains are overworked just by existing, let them rest so we can keep going!

Next Pill:

A tool to, not just remind you when to take your next pill, but to help you remember if you actually took it!

Features:

• record medication doses that need to be taken each day, and their times.

• record minimum time periods between doses of medications, where required, so subsequent dose times can be adjusted automatically to ensure gaps are maintained.

• receive notification reminders to take medication at the required time, with the option to mark it as ‘taken’, ‘skipped’, or to delay a dose for 1, 2, or 3 hours.

• optional additional reminders if you have not marked medication as ‘taken’ or ‘skipped’ within 5 minutes. (Since we can often forget to actually take it, even having been reminded!)

• option to have notifications re-posted if they are dismissed to avoid swiping a reminder away, and then forgetting to take the medication!

• option to have random (fictional!) super-powers attributed to our medication, to perhaps give us something more interesting to associate with it and help remember that we took it!

• a record of medication taken, missed, or skipped that day.

Remembering to take medication can be challenging - especially when we have ADHD and our working memory just won't…well…work!

And, even if we do remember we need to take it, we might then not recall whether we actually took it, or simply had a glass of water because we forgot why we went in the kitchen…!

There are many ways to set a reminder for when it's time to take medication, but that’s often not enough. It's far too easy for our brains to simply dismiss a notification thinking, "I'll take it in a minute,” and then immediately forget all about it! So, Reggie not only sends a reminder, but also includes the option to repost a medication reminder if you dismiss it. That way, if you do hurriedly swipe it away because you’re busy or focused on something else, Reggie can prompt you to slow down and make sure you do in fact take the medicine. (Or, you can choose to delay it, in case you actually do need to take it later on!)

There’s a visual record of medication we’ve taken, skipped, or missed and – if we choose to use the ‘repost after dismissing’ option – we can be fairly sure it’s an accurate reflection of whether we did ACTUALLY take it, since otherwise we’d have notifications sat on our phone waiting!

Plus, if we choose to give our medication slightly-humourous, fictional, super-power attribution, then our brain might latch onto that more easily as a ‘hook’ for our memory.

Our medication is important: for many of us it makes the difference between a good day and a bad day (or enables us just to get anything done at all!). In some cases, it may even be a life-saver, if it makes the difference between concentrating fully or not when doing something dangerous.

Which is why Reggie is here to help us remember to take our Next Pill.

Said-To-Do:

Convert more of those things we ‘said’ we’d do, into things we actually 'do’.

Features:

• record with a single click from either a home screen widget or an optional notification that there’s an action  to do. Useful for times when it’s not possible to immediately make a more detailed note of it.

• choose from a range of default notes, or edit them to set your own, to be added to a recorded action as a memory aid for what the action was.

• an alternative widget or notification button to record an action with custom notes added to it as a reminder.

• receive a notification after a specified number of hours – from 1 to 24 – reminding you of actions you’ve not yet marked as having fully noted on a to-do list. 

We may often be given the advice to "Write a task down straight away so you don't forget it!” But life doesn't always work like that. It's not always possible or appropriate to immediately stop and write down something we've said or thought we need to do. And, by the time we get somewhere we can, or find a pen, or notepad, or our task-list, even the thought that we said we'd do something has been lost in the hundreds of other things crammed into our overwhelmed working memory.

For those times, we need something quick and discreet – an unobtrusive way to record that there’s SOMETHING we need to do, without appearing impolite or derailing a conversation, meeting, or other engagement by dashing off, or spending time on our phones, to write it down.

Most of us already have a to-do list we prefer, and Reggie isn’t seeking to replace that with Said-To-Do (although it could if you want!). It’s simply a way of helping to at least remember that there is something we need to do, and the time at which we agreed to it or thought of it. Then, when it reminds us about it, if any notes we added aren’t enough to jog our memory of the task itself, at least there’s a starting point for us to investigate what it was! (Maybe by asking the person with whom we were with at the time, for example!)

Task PB:

A tool to help with completing tasks that require more executive function than we want to commit. Now you have a reason to do them: beat your best!

Features:

• select from more than 30 common tasks associated with different household rooms, areas, items, occasions, or personal care routines (245 options in total). There’s no need to type in your own list of tasks!

• add additional tasks of your own, if there are any not in the pre-existing ones.

• start a timer to record how long it takes to do the task, and save the time to the app as your ‘personal best’ (PB) so you can try and beat it next time!

• optionally share your best time on completion of a task so you can compete, or celebrate your achievement, with your peers!

• add tasks to your “frequent tasks” list, so you can find them quickly in future.

• set multiple tasks to do in sequence and record/save the times for each – for when you feel like being especially productive!

Finding the executive function to do things we don't want to do is a constant challenge for those of us with ADHD. It doesn't matter how important a task is, if it's boring, we're going to struggle to get going! We need a reason. And by ‘reason’, we mean 'reward', or at least some sort of challenge.

Nor do we want to spend ages listing all the chores we have to do, adding them to our calendar or planner so that we might do them then. (Although, let’s face it, unless we particularly feel like it at the time, we’re still not likely to get it done!) It's so tedious and time-consuming…

So, while Reggie can't offer you a new car, or thousands in cash, as a reward for doing the laundry, it does have a preloaded list of as many household tasks as we could think of (and if that's not enough, there's the option to add more!) and it offers the challenge of doing all those mundane tasks in record time!

With that can come the reward of knowing the task was done using as little of that precious 'spare' time as possible, and the satisfaction it was done quicker than ever before. (We might also learn that some tasks don't take nearly as long as imagined, making the thought of doing them next time less dreadful!)

Or, if you didn't manage to beat your time this time, there's still the incentive to do so next time. So go on: you know you can do it waaaay quicker than past you…

Disclaimer: whilst we encourage you to finish your chores as fast as humanly possible, please clean, tidy etc responsibly! You Never Know Ideas accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage to any person or people, items, or property!

Time Aware:

A tool to assist with the ADHD problem of 'time blindness’.

Features:

• set vibration alerts, with optional notifications, to occur at your chosen time interval of every 10, 15, 20, 30 minute period after each hour, or on the hour.

• set times at which you wish alerts to begin (the time you wake up) and end (when you sleep) each day to prevent disturbances overnight if your phone is kept on.

• select whether vibration alerts occur if you have your phone set to “Do Not Disturb”.

• choose from 8 different vibration patterns, and optionally set a different one for each of your selected intervals of minutes past every hour.

• select whether to receive notifications along with the vibration alert.

• if you choose to receive notifications, select whether to always receive them, or only when the app recognises you are away from your phone, by monitoring your phone’s orientation and accelerometer sensors. (Only monitored during the few seconds of an alert time to minimise battery drain!)

• specify if you keep your phone in your pocket so that, by monitoring your phone’s ambient light sensor, notifications are not then used to avoid you feeling the vibration in your pocket, and also receiving a notification on any smartwatch you may use. We don’t need any more distractions, after all!

ADHD gives us a somewhat different relationship with time. We lose track of it easily, forget how long we’ve been doing (or not doing!) something, or that we need to eat/drink water/go somewhere. 

Time Aware allows you to set your phone to vibrate, and optionally receive notifications (useful if you’re away from your phone, but still wish to be kept aware via any smartwatch you might use), at a chosen number of minutes past each hour (e.g. each 15 minute interval past the hour: 15, 30, 45, and on the hour) to help remain aware of time passing so we don’t end up wondering where hours have disappeared to!

WebScraps:

Reggie uses the term “Web Scrap” to describe something found on the internet – usually a webpage – that we think we might want again later. Often ADHD-people will keep them in open browser tabs, ending up with dozens of tabs open, using the phone’s resources, while losing track of what’s there and probably never looking at them again! “WebScraps” is a place to store them instead – somewhere they might actually be useful to us again!

Features:

• save links to webpages, and write notes to store alongside them, using Android’s sharing functionality from within a phone’s browser.

• save pieces of text from webpages or other sources, along with additional notes you may choose to write, also using Android’s sharing functionality.

• choose from six categories, each with a separate tabbed page in WebScraps, in which to store a link or text, keeping them organised within Reginald!.

• customise the names of the categories according to your own needs.

• search through your saved items to help quickly find specific ones.

• move items between your categorised tabs and preview weblinks within the app.

With WebScraps, all those articles, places to visit, recipes, gift ideas etc might actually now be looked at again and become useful!.

Storing a link in Reginald! means the browser tab itself can be closed, freeing up phone resources, perhaps even improving its performance! There's a mini-browser window in WebScraps so you can preview a link without leaving your list, in case you're not sure which it is you want, and anything you share into WebScraps is saved with the date and time it was stored in case you can remember when you saved SOMETHING, but not what it was!

While it might seem like a minor problem to solve, those things we save could turn out to be important and make a big difference! It might be nice to be able to find them again…!

Additional Features in the Reginald! app:

• “Tumble Reggie” digital fidget spinner.

• the facility to manually back-up and restore your data from within the Reginald! app.

• a list of third-party websites you may find useful if you have ADHD. (No affiliation is implied to or from any of the third-parties included in the Reginald! app.)

Privacy statement:

There are no accounts or profiles in the Reginald! app. All data (medication logs, emotions, etc.) is stored locally in your device's secure storage. It never leaves your phone unless you choose to share it. Full policy here:  https://sites.google.com/view/reginald-adhd/privacy-policy 

Permissions requested by the app:

Reginald! requests specific device permissions to function:

Exact Alarms: 

Used to provide time-critical reminders for:

• Medication you have entered to be taken at its specific time.

• Emotion tracking reminders at the specific times you choose.

• Tasks you have entered to be reminded to do at specific times.

• Time intervals you specify for time management purposes.
  
  

Should you choose to not grant this permission, the reminders and alerts provided by these functions may be delayed by Android’s battery management functions.

Notification Listener:

Used within the "Focus Time" tool to dismiss unwanted notifications during focus sessions.  The function is solely used to immediately dismiss any notification you do not wish to be disturbed by during your focus sessions, and to provide you with information on any such notifications received following that session. No information or data is ever transmitted anywhere by Reginald! from any notification it may access, nor is it stored beyond the specific focus session during which it is accessed. The function is provided for Reginald!-only as an alternative to using Android’s own system-wide “Do Not Disturb” and “Interrupt” features for the App, as well as to prevent notifications and distractions being sent during focus sessions to any smartwatch devices you may use, which do not always automatically follow the phone’s “Do Not Disturb” status.

Should you choose to not grant this permission, "Focus Time" will function as normal but without the facility for it to dismiss notifications .

Notifications: 

Used to alert you of the following:

• Medication you have entered to be taken at its specific time.

• Emotion tracking reminders at the times you choose.

• Tasks you have entered to be reminded to do.

• Timers used during task completion.

• Time intervals you specify for time management purposes.

• Features that have recommenced their scheduled alerts following a system reboot or App update.

Additional permissions used not requiring user permission:

• Access Do Not Disturb: to allow the user the option of allowing the Time Aware tool to send time alerts when the device is set to 'Do Not Disturb'.

• Run at startup: to allow any of the Reginald! app's alerts and notifications which the user had set prior to the device reboot to be rescheduled automatically by the app, and to post a notification information the user of the tools for which reminders or alerts have been restarted.

• Have full network access: to enable to WebView within the WebScraps tool to access the open web at the user's request.

• View network connections:  to enable the WebView within the WebScraps tool to find the current network connection when required,

• Control Vibration: to allow the Time Aware tool to vibrate the device according to the times and patterns specified by the user.

• Prevent phone from sleeping: to wake the device from 'Doze' mode, and keep it awake, for each of Time Aware's vibration alerts for the length of time required for it to occur, before allowing the device to reenter 'Doze' mode according to system settings. This is due to the device-vibrator requiring the device to be wake before it can be used.

None of the permissions requested by Reginald! are used to collect or harvest user data.

(Another) Medical Disclaimer:

Reginald! is a productivity and wellness tool designed to support its users. It is not a medical device or medical app and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health professional/provider with any questions regarding a medical condition or medication.

Last updated: 8 March 2026