Systems like this work great for me right up until I forget to use them.

They’re great for project work. Less so for daily routines (nobody wants to set them up every day).

I’ve done it with Post-It notes on a wall and every time I used it everything went soooo smoothly.

What's a kanban board?

Not naggy enough for me to remember to check it. LOL

Yes! I’ve used Trello to great effect. Doesn’t work too well on the phone screen, but I’m not complaining too much about a free program.

I don't have ADHD myself, but for life tasks I use a to do list that allows to set recurrent events like a reminder to take a pill or take out the trash. I use this one:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.tasks

You know what - that's a good idea. The general group of task tracking methods is what works best for me already, and this one makes sense.

Still miss the time I had a mind map software for my tasks which also had a "progress-ready" rather than just a ready icon. It was a circle filling in quarters, until it was full and became a checkmark. I like my tasks structured hierarchically, with the option to always break down any task or subtask further, and that was the best of both worlds.

With Kanban and tickets, my only worry is that creating subtasks in something like Jira does not display as nicely as it does in a mind map.

I know this is a bit old, but I just came across your post this morning.

I've been using Wekan for a long time with a tiny bit of automation. Here's how I have it set up.

Everything starts on the Big To-Do List, getting sorted by priority. For things I want done today, I move them to the Do Today list. I have a rule set up to move cards put in that list to the Do Today board.

This is the board I have up on my PC all the time. It's designed to have zero distractions. The only things on here are what I intend to get done today or what's been started but paused that I intend to do in the next few days. If anything looks like it's not going to get done, it immediately go to The Future which sends it to the Inbox of the Big To-Do List. To keep things decluttered, completed things also get moved to Completed on the Big To-Do List.