An Actually Restorative Evening Routine with Claude: The Sandwich Framework
A three-layer routine that closes your day cleanly, protects your recovery, and ends with something worth reading, not another task.
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You’re getting this one in the evening on purpose, if you didn’t notice the title.
Today we’re talking about evening routines because most AI power users have turned their evenings into a second workday.
Claude sessions can feel like downtime because there’s no Slack ping or calendar invite attached. Mentally though, you’re still in the same gear: defining problems, weighing tradeoffs, and sequencing next steps.
I coined the routine I’m trying “The Sandwich Framework.” Two short, structured Claude sessions, one at the end of the workday and one before bed, with a hard analog hour between them.