Putter: Calm Morning Routine

The first hour is not a to-do list. Puttering is the old word for it: newspapers, breakfast, and nothing that has to be decided before ten. Most morning routine apps do the opposite and wake you into a scoreboard. Putter is a calm morning with a clock on it. Pick 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes and start. Your phone turns into: • A warm, low-contrast clock you can read from across the kitchen. No second hand. • A countdown you can't watch tick. It says "about 20 minutes left" and only changes when that stops being true. • One plain place to put a thought if one shows up. No headings, no checkboxes, no tags. • A slow ring under the clock, paced for box breathing if you feel like following it. Nothing tells you to. What the app does that a browser can't: • The sunrise. Over the last few minutes the screen warms up and the backlight itself comes up, so the room tells you it's nearly over. Your…