专注时间与日程规划

End-of-Day Shutdown Ritual — Checklist Template#

Run this at the hard stop, every working day. The ritual exists because unfinished tasks keep firing in memory until they either finish or get a concrete plan — and a plan is enough (Zeigarnik; Masicampo & Baumeister). Ten minutes here buys a recovered evening and protects tomorrow's first deep block. Copy this file into your notes system, or fill it in place.

Date: ____________ Hard stop: ____________

1. Capture every open loop#

Sweep every place a commitment can hide. Nothing stays only in your head.

• Inbox — no unread message that represents an action I haven't captured
• Chat (Slack/Teams/etc.) — same standard as email
• Notes and scratch files from today — actions extracted
• The day's time-block plan — every unfinished block accounted for

Open loops captured (task + where it now lives):

Open loop	Captured to (tomorrow's list / calendar / project plan)

2. Give every incomplete a plan#

For each item above: either it has a time block tomorrow, a calendar date, or an explicit deferred / dropped decision. "I'll get to it" is not a plan — a plan names when.

• Every incomplete has a when, or a conscious "not doing this"

3. Glance at tomorrow#

• Calendar checked — no surprise that should reshape tomorrow's blocks

• Tomorrow's first deep block is chosen and written down:

  Tomorrow, first block: ____________________________________________

4. Bank today's evidence#

• Focus sessions logged (focus_session_logger.py log ...)
• Weekly status glanced at (focus_session_logger.py status) — hours vs target, streak intact

5. Close#

• Say the closing phrase, out loud or written: "Shutdown complete."

After the phrase: no email, no chat, no "quick checks." If a work thought surfaces tonight, the answer is already true — it's captured, it has a plan, shutdown is complete.