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You can let the Power Options do a lot of the work for you.
I like to be able to walk away and not worry about coming back to save any work I've left open, yet know that the computer will save it itself while going to sleep in 30 minutes, and then after an hour or so write it to the HD so it can Shutdown.
Yet when I return - hours or weeks later - the startup is much faster when Resuming and my work is intact and waiting where I left it.
The price you pay for having this hands-free ability to walk away whenever and for as long as you want is that you need to do a restart every day or so. However waiting until you have Updates which prompt for Restart is probably enough.
I like to have my laptop Hibernate when I close the lid, so it starts up faster and I can leave work out to continue what I was doing at the beach or in another room.