Why entry points are powerful
A tag works best when it sits at a natural transition point: a front door, a desk edge, a bedside surface, or a kitchen station. Those repeated transitions are what make automation feel useful.
What Apple Watch adds
Apple Watch stays relevant because it is part of the same environment stack: notifications, wallet access, focus changes, timers, and glanceable context all live beside the iPhone-triggered NFC action.
The best first scenes
Door arrival, desk focus, room shutdown, and nightstand wind-down are better first scenes than overly complex automation trees.
The rule to keep
If the scene requires too many exceptions, it probably should not be your first NFC tag.