How to replicate soft deleting functionality?

I created a custom date column in my table, called finished_at. I want to replicate the functionality of soft deleting so that:

1. Rows that have a NULL value for the finished_at column are not retrieved by default.
2. If I want to retrieve rows with a NULL value, I add withFinished() to the query (like how soft delete has withTrashed()).

How can I do this?

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