Time, attention, and the things that interrupt both.
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A timer showing remaining time as a shrinking coloured disc. Time becomes a visible quantity rather than an abstraction.
What it is like to use
The strongest single recommendation on this list for time blindness. Get the silent model: the ticking version defeats the purpose for noise-sensitive people.
An undated pad or board that lives in your eyeline. Out of sight is out of mind, so it stays in sight.
What it is like to use
Undated matters. A dated planner accumulates blank pages that read as failure; an undated pad simply starts again today.
Side panels that cut peripheral visual movement in an open-plan office.
What it is like to use
Peripheral motion is an underrated attention drain and one almost nobody thinks to solve physically.
A shade over the top of the screen that blocks ceiling light before it lands. Solves glare rather than distraction, which is the other half of what makes a screen tiring to look at.
What it is like to use
Overhead strip lighting bouncing off a screen is a low grade drain most people stop noticing and keep paying for all day. If you squint at your monitor under office lights and have already turned the brightness up, this is the cheaper fix.
Somewhere for restless legs to go that is not the chair leg or the person next to you.
What it is like to use
Silent models exist and are the only ones usable in a shared space. Check for a noise mention in the reviews before buying.
No pairing, no charging, no battery to be dead at the moment you need them.
What it is like to use
Worth stating plainly: a device that requires a charge is a device that fails on the day executive function is already gone. Wired removes a whole failure mode.