One thing at a time. Everything stays on your phone.
Setup
Set once. Change any day.
In Google Calendar: Settings → your calendar → Integrate calendar → Secret address in iCal format.
Treat it like a password — anyone with it can read your calendar. Paste it here and today's events
build the day automatically. Leave blank and you can add fixed blocks by hand instead.
Any calendar event with inspection in the title gets travel time blocked before it —
and that drive becomes a listening slot, not dead time.
On a drive the app offers Chronicle (your Bible app — the audio keeps playing with the screen
locked, which matters in the truck), the newest episode of that podcast, and your Spotify playlist.
Apple Podcasts has no public API for your own library, so a show name or RSS link is the way in. A name usually works; if Apple throttles the lookup, the RSS link always works.
An honest note. A 90-minute weeknight block is about 7½ hours a week of real building.
Spread across four ventures that's under two hours each — enough to keep them warm, not enough to
move them. Give one venture most of the week and let the others tick over. You can change this
every Sunday.
Anything else fixed today?
Your calendar is already in. Add anything that isn't on it.
What are today's three?
Three for Elite. One for tonight. Everything else can wait.
Shutdown
Five minutes. This is what stops Elite following you home.
1
Read your task list. All of it.
2
Anything urgent — put it on a day, not in your head.
3
Look at the calendar two weeks out.
4
Glance at this week's plan. Adjust what's left.
5
Close the laptop.
"Schedule, shutdown, complete."
Out loud. The saying it is the part that works.
Tonight's block
One venture. One outcome. Phone in another room.
90:00
Not started
Your body runs in ~90-minute cycles. One good block beats three tired ones.
Tomorrow, decided tonight
Ten minutes now saves an hour of dithering in the morning.
The weekly 45
Sunday. The highest-leverage 45 minutes of the week.