Don't do it alone
A vetted directory of places where other people help you follow through: costs, formats, and who each one suits.
16 entries · updated 4 September 2026
Free UK peer support for ADHD adults: charity-run online sessions, local meetups and text-based groups run by people with lived experience.
Facilitated group deep work with a strict ritual: phones away, intention setting, timed sprints. The most structured of the coworking services.
Host-led group focus sessions with music, goal-setting and a shared timer. Warmer and more structured than 1-to-1 body doubling.
UK-born deep work platform mixing facilitated 'deep dive' sessions with a 24/7 drop-in room. Calmer and more wellbeing-flavoured than its US rivals.
Book a video session with a stranger; you both state your goal, work on mute, and report back. Body doubling as a service.
Work 'from' a rainy Kyoto street or a fireplace cabin: ambient scenes, lo-fi audio, a timer and a to-do list in one tab.
Free hour-long silent writing sessions four times a day, every weekday. Hundreds of writers on one call, and one of the best free accountability tools going.
The original write-50,000-words-in-November nonprofit closed in 2025. The challenge survives through Novel November and community-run events.
The largest ADHD community online. Invaluable lived-experience threads on task paralysis, with strict moderation and firm limits: peer support, not treatment.
Reddit's 2-million-member self-discipline forum. Free, occasionally excellent, frequently repetitive. Best used for method posts, not motivation.
A Reddit community devoted to using the internet less. Detox challenges, blocker setups and relapse honesty, hosted on the scroll machine itself.
Reddit's main productivity forum: system write-ups, app debates and 'I wasted another month' confessionals from over a million members.
Meet at a cafe or on a call, chat briefly, then shut up and write for an hour. Free chapters in hundreds of cities, no critique allowed.
Always-on video study rooms with hundreds of strangers working on camera. Drop in any hour, no booking, no talking.
Discord's biggest study server: over a million members, 24/7 video study rooms, shared pomodoro timers and tracked study hours. Free.
A free, structured writing hour on Zoom, four times every weekday, timed to mornings in London, New York, LA and Melbourne.
| Community | Format | Price |
|---|---|---|
| ADHD UK support groups | Charity-run peer groups: video calls, text groups, some in-person meetups | Free (charities; donations welcomed) |
| Caveday | Guide-led group video sessions of 1 to 3 hours, split into sprints with breaks, phones away | Membership with unlimited caves and a free trial; Check current pricing |
| Flow Club | Host-led group video sessions, typically 30 to 120 minutes, shared timer and playlist | About $40/month, or about $33/month billed annually; free trial; student and non-profit discounts |
| FLOWN | Facilitated group deep-dive sessions plus a 24/7 drop-in coworking room | Free tier with limited sessions; paid plan about $25/month, or about $19/month billed annually; 30-day free trial |
| Focusmate | 1-to-1 scheduled video sessions, cameras on, mics mostly off | Free tier (3 sessions/week); unlimited ~$9.99/month |
| LifeAt | Ambient scene + focus timer + tasks in a browser tab; optional cowork features | Free plan (one scene, timer, music, a to-do list); Pro subscription for the full library (check current pricing) |
| London Writers' Salon | Group video sessions, 1 hour, silent writing with brief opening and closing rituals | Writers' Hour is free; paid membership about £12/month; Check current pricing for tiers |
| NaNoWriMo (and what replaced it) | Free | |
| r/ADHD | Text forum: experience threads, strategy discussions, weekly themed posts | Free |
| r/getdisciplined | Text forum: advice posts, help requests, progress reports | Free |
| r/NoSurf | Reddit forum: challenges, setup guides, relapse and success threads | Free |
| r/productivity | Reddit forum: text posts, advice threads, app discussions | Free |
| Shut Up & Write! | In-person and online chapters: brief hello, silent writing block, optional debrief | Free |
| StudyStream | 24/7 group video focus rooms, cameras optional-but-encouraged, mics off | Free core rooms; optional premium tier for extras (check current pricing) |
| Study Together (Discord) | 24/7 Discord voice/video rooms, camera or screen share optional, shared pomodoro timer rooms, tracked hours | Free; optional paid Discord perks exist but are not needed |
| Writers' Hour | Zoom sessions: brief welcome, intention setting, 50 silent minutes, checkout | Free; London Writers' Salon sells paid membership around it |
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