Routines
A routine is a set of steps you repeat, like a morning routine. It can also track numbers and ask you questions.
What it’s for
New habits are hard to build, and it’s easy to try too much at once. A routine shows you the same few steps each day, so there’s nothing to plan or remember. Each day starts fresh, so missing a day doesn’t wipe out your progress.
A routine can also track a number or two, like how many hours you slept. After a few weeks, the numbers show what your days are really like, and you can set goals based on them. More on goals built on real numbers.
A routine can ask you a question too, like “What went well today?”. Your answers go to your journal.
Building routines has tips for making a routine part of your day.
What a routine holds
- Steps: things you check off. Each step can have a time estimate.
- Metrics: numbers you track, like hours slept. Set a lowest and highest value to set the scale of your history, and say whether higher or lower is better.
- Reflections: questions you answer in writing. Your answers go to your journal.
When it runs
Every day, on the days of the week you pick, or once a month. Each day you start with a fresh copy, no matter what happened the day before.
Doing a routine
Tap a routine on Today to start it. The chips at the top let you switch between today’s routines and show how much of each is done. You don’t have to finish one routine before starting another.
Check off steps, tap a metric to enter a number, and tap a question to write an answer. The bar under the name fills up as you go. To change the order of the rows, press and hold the handle on a row and drag it.
To do a routine on a day it isn’t scheduled, go to You → Routines and tap its play button.
Changing a routine
To change a routine, tap it in You → Routines, or tap the pencil at the top of a routine you’re doing. To add a routine, tap + in You → Routines. Changes to a routine’s steps also change today’s copy, unless you’ve already finished it or set it aside.
Where the results show
On Today’s week strip, in the sixteen-week history of each metric, in your journal, and in any goal that uses the routine.