When something pages you

Starts by itself when your paging app's notification runs a Shortcuts automation with Handle Event in it, which needs iOS 27; on iOS 26 you start it by hand. routinerun.com/help/on-call shows how. Its timers reach you with a card; set one to wake you if the phone will be face down.

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5 steps
  1. 1
    Read what actually fired

    The alert, not the channel it landed in. What is the check, and what value tripped it.

    2 min
  2. 2
    Say whether it is real

    Out loud, before touching anything. Half of these are a threshold nobody has revisited since the service got busier.

    Asks you first
  3. 3
    Acknowledge it

    So the next person on the rota knows somebody has it.

  4. 4
    Write down what you think is happening

    Now, while it is a guess. It is worth more than the tidy version you write afterwards.

  5. 5
    Fix it, or hand it on

    Both are answers. Sitting on it is not.