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You started a load this morning. It's still sitting in the washer.

Laundry is simple, and easy to drop between steps. You start a load, go do something else, forget it for hours, find it damp, and rewash it. Then it happens again. Timed alerts at each handoff keep the load moving from washer to dryer to drawer.

It fails at the handoffs

You load the washer and walk away. Forty minutes later, the cycle ends quietly. You're deep in something else. Three hours pass. The clothes sit in a warm, damp drum and start to smell. You rewash them, and the same gap opens again. No single step is hard. Laundry falls apart in the spaces between steps.

Try it with your own times

  1. Tap the deadline and set it to the time you actually need to be done.
  2. Tap any duration and change it to how long that step really takes you.
  3. Every start time shifts so you can see when to begin.
Laundry Run
10 min Sort & load washer 9:55 AM
40 min Wash cycle 10:05 AM
5 min Move to dryer 10:45 AM
50 min Dry cycle 10:50 AM
20 min Fold & put away 11:40 AM
Laundry Run 12:00 PM

A notification for every handoff

Ready Time sets a timer for the full laundry arc: sort and load, washer cycle, move to dryer, dryer cycle, fold and put away. Each transition gets a notification so the load doesn't sit forgotten. You don't have to track the time yourself. You respond when the alert fires and move the clothes to the next step.

How long does laundry take start to finish?

Sort to folded-away is often about 2 hours for one load: roughly 30 to 45 minutes wash, 40 to 60 dry, plus the minutes to move and fold. The machine times are fine. The handoffs are where laundry stalls. Put an alert on move-to-dryer and fold, not only on start.

How long can wet clothes sit in the washer?

Try not to leave them more than a couple of hours. Past that they start to smell and you risk a rewash. If you can't move them right away, set a notification for the moment the cycle ends so the damp load isn't waiting on your memory.

Ready Time 9:55 AM
Sort & load washer. Laundry Run in 2h 5m
Ready Time 10:45 AM
Move to dryer. Laundry Run in 1h 15m
Ready Time 11:40 AM
Fold & put away. Laundry Run in 20m

Alerts when it's time to start

Get a nudge at the right moment, while there's still time to act.

Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.

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