Tortoise Watch

Part one

Put it on your home screen

This has to happen in Safari — it's the only browser Apple lets install to the home screen.

1. Open Safari and go to the address above

   Type it or paste it. You'll see the Tortoise Watch sign-in screen. Don't sign in yet — install first, so your sign-in lives in the app, not in a browser tab.

2. Tap the Share button

   The square with the arrow pointing up, in the bar at the bottom of Safari (on iPad, top right).

3. Choose Add to Home Screen

   Scroll down the share sheet a little if you don't see it right away — it's in the list of actions, with a plus-in-a-square icon.

4. Tap Add

   Keep the name as is. The shell mark lands on your home screen like any other app. You can close Safari — you won't need it again.

Part two

Sign in — from the icon, not the browser

The installed app keeps its own sign-in, separate from Safari. So do this inside the app you just installed.

1. Open Tortoise Watch from your home screen

   Full screen, no browser bar. That's how you know you're in the installed app and not a Safari tab.

2. Tap Continue with Google

   A Google sign-in sheet slides up over the app. Pick your account the way you would anywhere else.

3. Land on your dashboard

   The sheet closes and returns you to Tortoise Watch, signed in. You'll stay signed in — this is a once-per-phone step, not a daily one.

Part three

Stand your first watch

A watch is a block of time you stand on purpose — Chapter Five of the workbook, now in your pocket. The app deals you one project at a time. You commit, or you pass with an honest reason. That's the whole practice.

1. Add a goal

   Go to Goals and name one thing this season is about. Your Eastward Gaze works fine here. One is enough to start.

2. Add a handful of projects

   Go to Projects and enter three or more real ones — things you've been circling, not a wish list. Give each a time estimate. Ugly drafts are fine; you can edit anything later.

3. Tap Stand a watch

   Nothing to fill in. The app reads the clock and tells you what kind of hours these are — Sharp, Steady, or Open minded. Read it and tap through. If the hour is lying to you, there's a link to say so.

4. Bearing

   Pick the goal this watch is headed toward. There's no all of it option, on purpose — the boat doesn't leave harbor without a direction. Projects that don't sit under a goal show up under Unassigned.

5. Work the deck

   One card at a time. If this is the one, tap Commit to this and the rest of the deck disappears — that's the point. If it isn't, tap Not this one and pick the reason that's actually true. There's no skip. The reason is the work.

6. If you keep passing, answer the question

   Pass enough times in a row and the deck stops and asks you to choose: commit to one of the ones you passed, or end the watch. Both are honest answers. Picking one on purpose is the practice.

Then go do the thing. Committing isn't the finish line — it's the starting gun. Put the phone down and stand the watch you just committed to.

On Android

Two taps in Chrome

1. Open the address in Chrome

   Same address: app.tortoiseplanner.com

2. Menu (⋮) → Add to Home screen, then Install

   Then pick up at Part two — everything from there is identical.