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Each errand is 15 minutes. But the transitions between them (driving, parking, getting distracted in the store, checking your phone in the car) add up to hours. Your brain estimated the errands but not the gaps. A backward plan from when you need to be home gives each stop a time box, including the transitions.
You budget 15 minutes for the post office, 20 for the pharmacy, 10 for the dry cleaner. That's 45 minutes. But you forgot the 10-minute drive between each, the 5 minutes finding parking, the 15 minutes you spent browsing at the pharmacy, and the phone call you took in the car. The errands took 45 minutes. The afternoon took three hours.
Ready Time works backward from when you need to be home. Each errand gets a block that includes travel, the stop itself, and a buffer. When the notification says "head to next stop," you leave, even if you haven't browsed every aisle. The time box keeps each errand honest and the whole loop on schedule.
Three "quick" stops are rarely under an hour once you add drives, parking, and the browsing you didn't budget. A useful rule is to time-box each stop including travel, then add a buffer before you need to be home. The gaps between errands are where the afternoon disappears.
Set a must-be-home time, order stops by geography, and give each one a hard leave-by. When the block ends, you leave, even if the aisle is interesting. A backward plan from home time keeps the loop honest better than stacking optimistic 15-minute guesses.
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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Save this routine in Ready Time and it tells you when to start each step.
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.