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Welcome to Rituals
Rituals conducts your Rise and Shutdown. The record lives in your Obsidian daily note. Rituals stores nothing else.
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Rise
Open the day.
Rise
Carried in from yesterday
Things you left open at Shutdown — tap one to make it today's one thing.
Rise · 2/4
What's already in your head?
The noise, the to-dos, the worries. Get it out.
Rise · 3/4
What is today's one thing?
The one thing that makes today count. If it helps, name when — “when I sit down at 9, I'll…”.
Rise · 4/4
What are you looking forward to?
Rise · Now open it.
— City Watch motto, Guards! Guards!
Give it one minute of quiet before you open anything. The one thing is already named — let it be the first thing you do.
How does the morning feel? — optional
Same scale as Shutdown — the pair shows how your day turns. It's a note to yourself, not a score.
Rise
That's the day begun.
Give it one minute of quiet before you open anything. The one thing is already named — let it be the first thing you do.
Shutdown
Close the day properly.
Work's done. A few words to hand it back before it follows you home.
Shutdown · 1/2
What's still open?
The loops running in the back of your mind. Write them as thoughts — not tasks. You are not planning tomorrow; you are releasing today. Anything you truly must not forget is carried to tomorrow's Rise.
Shutdown · 2/2
What went right?
One or two real things — not achievements, moments. Skim it if today was rough; this is a light close, not an obligation.
Shutdown · Now shut it.
— Guards! Guards!
How does the day feel? — optional
1 = rough, 5 = great. It's a gentle note to yourself, not a score — it helps you spot trends over time.
Anything fire today? — tap any that did
When work turns up in your head at nine o'clock, don't chase it down. You said the words, which means it's handled — let that be the whole answer.
Shutdown
That's the day.
Go for a walk if you've got twenty minutes in you. It's the closest thing to a commute you've got.
Don't Panic · a quiet moment
That sinking, something's-coming feeling.
Whatever triggered it — the night before work, a hard morning, a knot in your chest at 3pm — it's a well-documented pattern, not a defect in you. It crests, then it fades. This isn't a problem to solve; it's a moment to move through. Two minutes, one small step at a time.
Don't Panic · 1/4
What's actually the one thing you're dreading?
Not the whole fog — the specific thing underneath it. "The 10am with my manager." "That thing I keep putting off." Specificity shrinks a fog into something you can look at.
Don't Panic · 2/4
Reality-check it.
How likely is the bad version, really? And here's the useful one: even in the realistic bad case — what would you actually do about it?
Don't Panic · 3/4
One first-move for the thing.
Not a plan — just the first step, phrased as an if-then so it's ready to go: "when I sit down to it, I'll start with…"
Don't Panic · 4/4
Anything else can wait.
Whatever's still looping can be picked up in a plan window later. You don't need to solve it right now — writing it down and letting it go is the release.
Don't Panic · that's it
— Death, Sourcery
Take a slow breath in… and a longer one out. You've got the rest of this moment — it's yours. Whatever's coming, you've already got a first move.
Don't Panic
That's the dread, handled.
You named it, you sized it, and you've got a first move. Whatever's left is parked for later. Go be present in what's actually here now.
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