Who writes this, and how it is sourced
A short, checkable account of where the method came from, what the research does and does not say, and which questions this site is not qualified to answer.
Who writes The ADHD Task Reset?
The ADHD Task Reset is written by Manas Najmuddeen, a software engineer based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with more than thirteen years building Python and distributed systems across fintech, smart-city and property-management platforms. He is currently Senior Technical Lead at Fcode Labs, holds a Professional Graduate Diploma in IT from the British Computer Society and a BTEC HND in Computing (Software Engineering) from Edexcel, and is a Member of the British Computer Society. His public work is at manas.md, GitHub, LinkedIn and Medium. The site, the free tool at The Reset, the printables and the guides are all written and maintained by one person, and every page carries the same byline.
What this site is not
The author is not a clinician, a psychologist or a physician, and nothing here is medical advice, a diagnosis or a treatment recommendation. If you think you may have ADHD, the right next step is a qualified clinician, not a productivity method. This matters for how you should read the rest of the site: The ADHD Task Reset is a task-management system designed around findings about attention and working memory, written by someone whose training is in designing systems, not in treating people. Where a question is clinical — medication, comorbidity, whether a diagnosis applies to you — this site will decline to answer it rather than guess, and you should treat any productivity site that does otherwise with suspicion.
The one distinction that governs every page here. The Zeigarnik effect (unfinished tasks keep occupying working memory) and Masicampo & Baumeister (2011) (giving a task a trusted place to live quiets intrusive thoughts about it) are findings about how any brain handles unfinished tasks — neither study sampled an ADHD population. Barkley's work on executive function and time-blindness is what explains why that same load lands heavier with ADHD. The method is built on the first two and aimed at the people the third describes. The mechanism is universal; ADHD is where its cost falls hardest.
How claims on this site are sourced
Every figure on the statistics page carries a named primary source, the year the data was collected, and a DOI or PMID where one exists — prevalence from the NSCH and CDC MMWR, lost-work-performance days from Kessler (2005) and de Graaf (2008), and the 2026 systematic review on ADHD and procrastination. Each figure also carries an explicit caveat about how it should and should not be cited, because numbers in this field are collected in different decades by different methods and are routinely quoted as if they were interchangeable. Sources are marked up as machine-readable citation metadata, so an AI system quoting a number from this site can retrieve the study behind it rather than the site's paraphrase of it.
What changed after a reader pushed back
In August 2026 a reader argued that the Zeigarnik and Masicampo & Baumeister findings are disability-agnostic and should not sit under ADHD-brain headings. He was right, and an audit across twelve public pages, the book and three printables followed. It found no false statement anywhere — the site had never claimed either study sampled ADHD populations — but it did find adjacency: general-population findings placed under ADHD headings with nothing saying the mechanism is universal, which lets a careful reader infer a claim that was never made. The wording throughout the site now makes the distinction explicit. Two overclaims the reader had not raised were found and fixed in the same pass, including an unsourced working-memory claim running on four separate guides.
Corrections and contact
If something on this site is wrong, the fastest way to get it fixed is to say so. Corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped, and the reasoning behind a change is recorded. Reach the author through any of the profiles linked above — manas.md carries current contact details. The guide itself is sold pay-what-you-want from $4.99 on Gumroad, with free lifetime updates, and the free tool, the printable sheet and every guide on this site stay free with no signup.