Chronicle keeps playing with the screen locked, which is the one that works in the truck.
A drive is the slot you already have — the app hands it to you instead of leaving it empty.
Done today
Still open
Tomorrow's calendar
Tomorrow's plan
Deciding tomorrow tonight is the habit nearly every one of them shares. Ten minutes now
is the hardest decision of the morning already made.
One thing at a time. Everything stays on your phone.
Setup
Set once. Change any day.
Google Calendar: Settings → click the calendar on the left → Integrate calendar →
Secret address in iCal format. iPhone/iCloud: Calendar app → edit the calendar →
Public Calendar → copy the link (change webcal:// to https://).
Add a line for each calendar — personal, work, kids. They merge into one day.
These links are password-equivalent, and they stay on this phone.
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.
Calendar entries whose title matches these are treated as held, not gone — you're at a desk,
not out on a job. Reading, a workout and a walk can be slotted inside them when the rest of the day
is full. Inspections, meetings and anything else stay hard-blocked.
Only shows mail that arrived between 9pm and 7am — the night's arrivals, not a backlog.
You run the inbox during the day; this is just what landed while you were asleep.
Reads headers only — sender and subject, never the message — and never marks anything read.
Service Station, EIG and ISN are pulled to the top; bulk mail is counted and ignored.
Facts are written and checked by hand, not generated fresh each morning — so nothing in here is
invented. Tap Read it to me and your phone will read it aloud, which works fine in the truck.
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.