Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.
Hyperfocus is great until you need to stop. You're deep in something, the meeting is in 20 minutes, and your brain says "I'll wrap up in 5." It's rarely 5. A backward plan for transitions gives you the buffer between tasks that your brain will not create on its own.
Closing the current task, saving your work, switching mentally, getting water, using the bathroom, opening the next thing. That's 15 to 20 minutes of transition. It feels like 5. If you don't budget for it, you start every next thing late.
A calendar reminder 5 minutes before a meeting works more like a panic button than a plan. Ready Time builds a real transition: save your work, jot notes on where you left off, take a break, review the next task's agenda. Each step gets a notification. You're not yanked out of focus. You're guided out of it.
Coming out of a focused stretch takes longer than the five minutes you promised yourself. An alert at the meeting time arrives after the useful moment, when stopping is already going to make you late. A transition window with its own start time gives the wrap-up somewhere to happen. Five minutes is an estimate, and estimating intervals is one of the things that same decade of adult ADHD research found to be measurably harder.
Give the transition its own block with its own start time, instead of leaving it to happen in the gap between two other things. Work back from when the next thing begins: if the meeting is at 2:00 and the wrap-up honestly takes twenty minutes, then the transition starts at 1:40 and the earlier task ends there, whatever state it is in. Close the old thing down before you open the new one, and leave yourself a note about exactly where you stopped. A transition costs you twice, once on the way out and again when you come back with no idea what you were mid-stream. That note makes the return cheaper. A single reminder at 2:00 lands after the only moment when stopping was still free.
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.
“I get so tired of counting backward to when I should start my task. This app is the solution.”App Store review
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.