Wake-anchored schedules: what moves when you sleep in
A document gives times four ways. Knowing which is which is the difference between a schedule that survives a late morning and one that quietly breaks.
Four ways a document gives a time
| How it reads | What it means | What moves when you sleep in |
|---|---|---|
| “07:00, oil pulling” | A fixed clock time. | Nothing. 07:00 is 07:00. |
| “On waking” · “30 minutes after getting up” | An offset from when you actually got up. | The whole chain: the step, its hold-off, and anything that waits for it. |
| “Forty minutes after the binder” | Chained to another step. | Only when that step moves. |
| “With lunch” · “an hour before dinner” | Attached to a meal. | Only when you move the meal. |
Why the anchor matters more than the time
Most documents mix them. The morning is written from waking (“on rising, then thirty minutes later…”), the middle of the day around meals, and the evening is often a clock time (“21:30”). Treat all of them as clock times and one late morning breaks the chain: the first step slides, the hold-off does not, and the step that was meant to wait now sits inside the window.
The honest way to run such a document is to keep each step on the anchor the document gave it. That is what a runner is for. You tell it once when you got up; everything written from waking moves together; meal-anchored steps move when you move the meal; clock steps stay put.
Reading your own document
- Underline every time. Decide for each whether it is a clock time, an offset from waking, chained to a step, or attached to a meal. Your document usually says which in the same sentence.
- Write the hold-offs next to the steps that own them: “two hours clear”, “wait 30–60 minutes”.
- Mark which steps wait for a hold-off. Not every step does; meals rarely do unless the document says so.
That is the whole model. Tratto reads those things from the pasted text: “on waking” and “30 minutes after getting up” become steps counted from your wake time, clock times stay clock times, and you can change any of them on the confirm screen before anything is saved.
A worked morning
Say your document reads: on rising, a binder 35 minutes later with two hours clear; a step that waits for it at 08:00; breakfast at 09:00. Usual wake 06:45, so the binder sits at 07:20.
Slept until 08:15. The binder moves to 08:50. Its hold-off now runs to 10:50. The step that waits moves to 10:50. Breakfast stays at 09:00 unless the document tied it to waking too.
Nothing here decides anything about the protocol. It only keeps the document’s own relations true on a day that started late.