Built by someone who gets it

Followable started as a tool I built for myself.

Hi, I'm Chip. I've lived with ADHD for more than fifty years, long before it was something people talked about openly, and long before there were tools like this one.

For a lot of that time, if you couldn't remember something, or couldn't follow a set of steps, the explanation you got wasn't "your brain works differently." It was that you were lazy, or not paying attention, or that you had a "learning disability," said the way an insult is said. None of that was true, and none of it helped. The understanding just wasn't there yet, and neither were the tools.

What got me through was leaning on what I'm good at instead of fighting what I'm not. I'm a natural troubleshooter. I'll learn almost anything, as long as it doesn't live or die on memorizing a pile of details and recalling them on the spot. And I'm deeply visual. I remember what I can see, and I notice detail in things most people look right past.

Reading, though, has always been the hard one. I start a paragraph, and a few lines in, my mind has wandered somewhere else entirely. So I go back to the top and start again. And again. Not because the words are hard, but because my attention won't sit still long enough to reach the end.

I've spent my career building and fixing technical systems, so when reading wore me down, I built the fix. Followable is everything I wish I'd had. It does the heavy lifting a wandering mind needs: it puts the point first, breaks the wall of text into pieces, and keeps you from reading the same line five times. And it's visual on purpose, because for people like me, seeing the change is what makes it click. You don't imagine the result. You watch it happen.

I built it for myself first. It helped. That's the only reason it's here, because the friction I deal with every day isn't rare. Plenty of people hit the same wall, whether from ADHD, dyslexia, brain fog, or just a day with far too much to read.

I understand the challenge because I live it, and have for fifty years. My hope is simple: that Followable helps you the way it's helped me.

Chip

Founder, Followable