ADHD Content Creator 5-Step Idea-to-Publish OS

You have forty ideas and a graveyard of half-drafts, and the channel still went quiet last week. The problem was never running out of ideas. It is that none of them got killed early enough to let one actually ship. This is for the ADHD creator running their own channel solo - YouTube, podcast, newsletter, blog.

Here is the whole engine. Capture, Sift, Outline-or-skip, Draft, Ship. Step 3 is a three-minute outline gate. If you cannot outline an idea in three minutes, you drag it to Skipped with a reason and you let it go. The kill is the feature, not the failure.

What is in the drawer

A working Notion pipeline, the AI scaffolding to run it with a body-double, and the onboarding so you actually start.

Digital Workspaces (Notion)

• A 5-step pipeline kanban (Capture, Sift, Outline-or-skip, Draft, Ship) with a Skipped column where the agony loops go to die, plus a WIP limit at Draft so nothing piles up
• An Idea Inbox to drop a thought and get back to work, and a recoverable Sunday Sift ritual that still works if you miss a week
• A Today work-session view, a Repurpose database, and per-platform Distribution Checklists
• A Pillars / Topic Clusters database so the channel reads as a body of work, not a pile of posts
• A light Performance view (Top Performers, Underperformers, By Platform) with a one-line learning per published piece, weekly digest not daily refresh
• Sponsor Pipeline and Guest Pipeline databases for creators who monetize or run interviews

AI Scaffolding

• An AI body-double helper with pre-written prompts that open Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity in one tap (Sunday Sift indecision, the three-minute outline gate, stuck mid-draft, the repurpose plan, RSD first-aid for a mean comment)
• An AI Access Checklist database with creator-specific permission defaults, so you know what to let an AI read and what to keep closed
• A one-page printable setup PDF for connecting your AI directly to the Notion page
• A small library of outline skeletons (YouTube long-form, podcast solo, newsletter, short, carousel) so you never start from a blank page

Guidance & Support

• Welcome PDF from Wren
• Step-by-step quickstart
• 30-Day Wren Email Support
• Lifetime Updates

Why this drawer exists

A free Google search hands you ten more frameworks to try, and trying frameworks is itself a way to avoid shipping. The trap for an ADHD creator is not too few ideas. It is too many, with no honest gate to thin them. This is built to thin them.

• The kill is the mechanic. Step 3 targets a 70% kill rate. Letting an idea go is the win, not a failure to follow through.
• Externalize the backlog. Every idea lives on the board, not in your head, so working memory stops being the bottleneck.
• One decision at a time. The WIP limit at Draft means two things move at once, max. The Today view shows only what is next.
• Recoverable rituals. Skip a Sunday Sift and the next one still works. Nothing breaks because you fell off for a week.
• Skipped is data, not shame. Every kill carries a reason, so the pattern of what you abandon becomes something you can read.
• No vanity dashboards. Performance is a weekly digest with a one-line learning per piece, not a daily metric that pulls you into refreshing instead of making.

What this is not

• Not ADHD treatment, coaching, or a substitute for licensed clinical care.
• Not a diagnostic tool.
• Not a guarantee that any idea will perform or that any channel will grow.
• Not a SaaS subscription. One purchase, yours to keep, updates included.
• Not a content-strategy course. It organizes the work. It does not decide what your work should be.

Resources I would hand a friend at the kitchen table

(No affiliate links)

• ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Association), adda-sr.org - adult-ADHD self-management, including their write-ups on body-doubling and time-blindness
• ADDitude Magazine, additudemag.com - practical ADHD-creator pieces on rejection-sensitive dysphoria and follow-through
• CHADD, chadd.org - evidence-grounded adult-ADHD strategies, strong on external structure and accountability
• Notion Help Center, notion.so/help - the official docs for databases, views, and relations if any part of the workspace is new to you

The Fine Print

• Refunds: 30 days, no questions. Simply reply to your purchase email with the word "refund" or email wren@templatedrawer.com, and I will process it within 24 hours.
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