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I experience basically the same inattentive symptoms and anxiety too. I’m not hyperactive but quite fatigue throughout the day so my motivation is quite low.

Anyways, I’m not sure of any apps but I do know a great workbook that has been quite helpful for me, which was suggested by my therapist. It would be even better to use it with someone so you have someone to be accountable to and check in with.

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Other comments have talked about the medication topic (trying to adjust your dosage if it's not enough or switching medications), so I'm going to focus on being able to do habit-forming, as that's often a difficult task even once medication's figured out.

It sounds like you've already identified the things you need to be doing and the things you end up doing instead of that first group, which is a start. The next step is that you've got to start enforcing the rules you're trying to set for yourself and hold yourself accountable to them right then and there. Some things I see from your description of a day that could be useful:

• Establish set times that you're going to go to sleep and wake up, no matter what. If you decide you need to be awake at 10am and want 8 hours of sleep, make sure that every single night you're not gaming anymore by 12:30am or 1 so you've got time to physically go to bed and maybe read a book or do something else that is intentionally boring/relaxing instead of stimulating. This will help with the next item:
  
• Set only one alarm, but make it something loud and obnoxious (I used the drowning music from Sonic at first, hand to heart), then put your phone across the room so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. Having multiple alarms just makes you more likely to sleep through them all, because it's easy to convince yourself "oh this isn't so bad, even though I slept through this one there's my 4th/5th/6th alarm left, it's fine." Set a goal in your mind that "alarm goes off" means "get the fuck up," and then you need to hold yourself to that.
  
• Even if you don't move your sleeping times around, don't beat yourself up for "half the day being gone" just because it's midday. You already mentioned that you don't sleep until 3-5am, but wake up around noon; your halfway mark isn't until 7:30pm. People who work night shifts deal with things like this all the time, and it's important to recognize that while half of the sunlight might be gone for the day, your "day" is different and adheres to different times.
  
• Write down a schedule of what you need to do in the first 30-60 minutes after waking up. If having exact times helps, add those too (e.g., wake up around 8am, and have breakfast scheduled from 8:10-8:30). Then (and this'll be a repeated theme) you need to hold yourself accountable to that schedule. If you realize you ought to be eating breakfast or showering right now and you're gaming instead, do whatever you need to do to go from what you're doing to what you need to be doing ASAP. Quit the game, alt-f4, or if it's a single player thing just pause and walk away.
  
• While I tend to find that scheduling the first and last parts of my day helped the most since the task list for a day can vary hugely, from your description you already know what the main parts of your day should encompass (job hunt, project brainstorming), so look at setting daily goal lists in addition to the schedules. I'd recommend sticking to 2-3 things as "main" goals for the day based on their importance, not on how long they'll take. If your three things for today are "Get a haircut, apply for 5 jobs and walk the dog for 20 minutes," you could have all of those wrapped up by lunch and have the rest of the day off to do whatever you want.
  
• Understand that even though you're trying these new things, you're still going to fail at them sometimes, especially at first. Establishing a new habit is hard even for people who don't have ADHD, and you're going to have stumbles along the way. I'm currently on week 3 of trying to make myself run every morning as part of my morning schedule, and I've had a couple of days where I woke up late, took too long eating breakfast or just stared at nonsense on my phone for half an hour and didn't have the time. It's fine to be upset when those things happen - you're trying to succeed at this, so not liking failure is totally normal - but you're not a worthless person for being bad at a new skill. Attention span, routine and habit are all skills that have to be actively trained and paid attention to, and sucking at something is the first step at being sorta good at something.
  
  Most importantly, you've got to let go of the anger and remember that you can do this. If you started doing all or some of this tomorrow, that's day 1 of working to be better, not day 500 of being terrible at it. If you only do half of them on day 1, that's still more progress towards your goal than you had on day 0. You'll get better at consistency, you'll get better at holding yourself accountable when you fail but being fair about it, and will start to be able to define the more specific things that work for you rather than this long-winded advice from a stranger on the internet.
  
  A lot of the above came from things I learned while working with a cognitive behavioral therapist (while I was finding medications) and this book. If you think it'd be helpful and can't afford it, PM me shipping info or a wishlist link and I'll buy you a copy. I've been where you are, and it does get better.
  
  (edited to correct a typo I didn't notice I'd made at first)

This Honestly Hits home for me. I am sensitive to meds.

I recommend you read Driven to Distraction , Skip the first parts about diagnosis, and get to the living suggestions.

There are a few CBT guides that help with ADD, I recommend this one it worked for me. + if you can afford it a therapist trained for ADD would be a good resource.

Try out cognitive behavior therpy.
This book is about it: http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Your-Adult-ADHD-Cognitive-Behavioral/dp/0195188195/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325185928&sr=8-2

Are you getting any treatment aside from medication? If not you might want to combine your medication with ADHD therapy/coaching and/or focus on developing coping skills.

There's this mindfulness for ADHD workbook and also this Cognitive Behavioral Therpay for ADHD workbook. I haven't used them but they look like they might be useful.

The book 4 Weeks to an Organized Life with AD/HD was very helpful to me when I read it several years ago. The second half of the book is a 4 Week program that gives one simple task a day to help build skills to cope with ADHD (you don't have to read the first half of the book, you can just do the program). If you choose to do this, you might want to ask someone to help remind you to do the daily exercises and be your accountability buddy.

As far as reading goes, I find that writing a paragraph summarizing what I read right after reading helps me to stay interested in what I'm reading. I would guess it might help with other hobbies too.