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It's 7 PM. You were supposed to stop at 5.

"Just one more thing" is the trap at the end of every day. You finally hit your groove at 4:30, and now stopping feels impossible. Or you're doom-scrolling Slack because you can't figure out what "done" looks like. A shutdown routine gives "done" a definition and a time.

Why you can't just stop

If you finally found focus at 4 PM, your brain doesn't want to let go. If you never found focus, you feel guilty stopping. Either way, "just close your laptop" isn't a plan. You need a sequence that wraps things up so your brain agrees it's done.

A checklist that means "finished"

Ready Time builds a shutdown sequence: save your work, update your task list, write tomorrow's top 3 priorities, close apps, log off. Each step gets a notification. When the last one fires, you're done. Not because you feel done, but because you followed a sequence that means done.

Workday Shutdown
5:30 PM
5 min Save work & push changes 5:00 PM
5 min Update task list 5:05 PM
5 min Write tomorrow's top 3 5:10 PM
5 min Reply to urgent messages 5:15 PM
5 min Close apps & tidy desk 5:20 PM
5 min Log off & walk away 5:25 PM
Workday Shutdown 5:30 PM
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Ready Time

You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.

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