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Scheduling Your Rituals

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Putting Your Rituals on the Calendar

Already on

New accounts start with this switched on. If you’ve been with us a while, turn it on in Preferences → Emails & Nudges, under Shutdown and Weekly WRAP.

The problem this solves

Almost nobody struggles to understand why the Shutdown matters. They struggle because at 4:30 the day is still going, nothing on the calendar says stop, and the meeting that ran long has quietly eaten the moment when stopping was possible.

A reminder tells you about a decision. A block on your calendar holds the time for it.

So MakeTimeFlow can put your Shutdown on your calendar each workday, and your WRAP on your calendar each week — where the rest of your commitments already live, and where they can’t be booked over.

Moving it is the point

This is the part worth understanding. The block arrives at the time you said you’d shut down, but that time is a guess made on a calm day.

Drag it to when you will really stop. That small act is the difference between meaning to stop and stopping — it’s you deciding, today, with today’s information, that this is the moment. People who move their block do the ritual. People who leave it sitting where it landed and look away usually don’t.

If you find yourself dragging it to the same later hour three weeks running, that’s not you failing the system. That’s the system telling you your shutdown time is wrong. Change it in Preferences.

What actually happens

Your Shutdown, each workday morning:

  • One 30-minute block at the time you set, never more than one a day
  • Weekends and public holidays are skipped
  • It goes to your connected calendar too, so nothing gets booked over it

Your WRAP, at the start of each week:

  • One 45-minute block on the day and time you choose — Friday afternoon, Sunday morning, whatever fits how you actually close a week
  • Placed at the start of the week rather than on the day, so you can see it coming and plan around it
  • Weekends and holidays are kept here — plenty of people close the week on a Sunday

Start the timer and the ritual opens

These are ordinary tasks, so you can start a timer on one like any other. When you do, the ritual opens straight away — protected time and the ritual itself, from one gesture.

Make it yours

Call them whatever you call them. One of our users runs his end-of-day as Mise-en-place — the kitchen habit of setting everything out ready for tomorrow — and that’s the name on his calendar. Another closes the week with Sunday reset.

The name is yours; the block still opens the same ritual either way. Set it in the Call it field beside each switch.

If you don’t want one today

Delete it. It stays gone — nothing will put it back until tomorrow, or next week for the WRAP. Declining today isn’t declining forever.

And if you’d rather not have them at all, switch it off. Anything already on your calendar stays where it is; we just stop making new ones.