Review
A routine with a timer for each step, which helps mornings and shutdowns when starting is the hard part. Building the routine is fiddly, and it is not an inbox for random tasks that show up at 2pm. People who try to run a whole life as routines quit. People who keep one morning sequence often stay.
What holds up
- The next step is timed and already named
- A single morning routine is a fair test
- You can feel within days whether timers help
Where it breaks
- Ad-hoc tasks do not fit the model
- Editing a long routine is its own chore