Show HN: Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work

Hey, Ovidiu the author here.<p>So how could this be interesting to you?<p>The app<p>I read a book called Deep Work to improve the quality of my work and found the simple &quot;shutdown ritual&quot; idea powerful. I started with a dead simple list that I went through every evening to clear my mind and disconnect from work.<p>Then I decided to build a simple app and keep iterating in small increments every day I also use the app. After about 2mo I use it daily and it looks good enough to draw a line. So I made it public in case anyone else finds it useful.<p>The codebase<p>Meanwhile, I wanted to learn React Native and try react-native-web. I also wanted to see how well styled-components behaves &quot;unversally&quot; and how to do server-side-rendering with RNW. It worked pretty well (for the most part...) and I learned a lot.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in this tech stack I encourage you to dig through the codebase and maybe run it locally to get a feel.<p>If you have any questions related to the app or the codebase, fire away. I&#x27;ll answer gladly!

I&#x27;ve printed my own custom notebooks to track my planned vs. actual daily activity in 30 minute blocks, inspired by Deep Work.<p>This would make an excellent companion to that. The lessons I&#x27;ve learned from that book have been incredibly valuable in helping me work more efficiently and happily. Thanks for building this.

Very nice! I have added your project to Awesome Humane Tech [0], in the Mindfulness section. Thank you!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;engagingspaces&#x2F;awesome-humane-tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;engagingspaces&#x2F;awesome-humane-tech</a>

I think I will try doing this. It&#x27;s a bit embarrassing to admit but I really struggle to go to bed at a regular hour. It&#x27;s really bad when I&#x27;m &quot;in the zone&quot; and working hard on a project. I&#x27;m based overseas and all of my clients and customers are in the US, so I already stay up very late (usually at least 2am so that I have enough overlap with PST&#x2F;EDT.) But then 2am turns into 3am, 4am, and eventually the sun comes up.<p>Maybe this will help. I think I&#x27;ll schedule an event on my calendar to visit jobs-done.now.sh and go through the checklist. Then it would be good to relax for an hour or two and read&#x2F;watch something before sleeping. The problem with my weird schedule is that I usually go to sleep immediately after finishing work, so I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s very good.

This layout immediately reminded me of a Typeform form, and then got me thinking that if this were a Typeform form it would automatically log your responses and you could have historical data on your tasks, thoughts, and actions.

&gt; So how could this be interesting to you?<p>Dumps all work related ideas out of my head for me to feel like I can leave work at work.

Hmm, nothing seems to happen when I press the Start button.<p>Windows 10, Google Chrome Version 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)<p>It works on Firefox Quantum though!<p>EDIT: It seems on Chrome I need to press on the Start text itself; clicking the button doesn&#x27;t work.

&gt;I extended the original shutdown ritual with the last step because I&#x27;ve often found myself clueless about how to spend my evening after a day fully immersed in work.<p>This must have been the most depressing thing I&#x27;ve read in a long time.

Does it play the sound from Hearthstone? That would be fun!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bBCB0y9Mgns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bBCB0y9Mgns</a>

I realize that the web version works fine, but I&#x27;d love to have a local version for iOS.

Yay! Thanks for including WorkFlowy in this, very cool.

Awesome! Any plans to monetise?