Routines

Having looked into 5 other mainstream apps for productivity this app offers a unique simple solution to tracking things you do every day/week/month/year I have my daily tasks set so they do not repeat on my days off, brilliant as other apps didn't offer this. It allows for variables: most apps want you to say which day you're doing something whereas this app has the freedom for you to say "yeah I've done that this week already" it sounds simple but again really hard or impossible to do on others apps If I had to ask the developers for one thing it would be an Apple Watch supporting app for effortless reminders or just to view the app on the watch face like the "Things" or "todoist" apps allow you to. I'm not buying those apps as Routines is the unique solution I'm after but an watchOS app would be amazing. Overall recommend this app to anyone that does the same stuff every day or week that never wants to miss a thing. Has really helped my productivity and increased my integrity.

Well designed app.

Needs to be much simpler. Much much simpler. Couldn't even make one task. Lots of the options are masked by some bug too

It does about what you would hope it would do, and no more. It's fairly simple to operate. The key reason I use it is that it allows me to keep the in-built Apple Calendar and Alarm Clock apps clear of regular tasks, and (crucially for me) when the "alarm" comes up for these regular tasks the sound will not override the "Silent" setting of the phone. So I don't constantly have my phone alarm going off at work to tell me to do some arm stretches or get ready to set off for my Pilates class. However there's no decent information on the Context and Tags on the support page - what do these mean, how might you use them, what difference does it make to the display / operation of tasks? Who knows. Also, there's no way to specify that (say) a daily task should occur on only some days of the week. This is a significant oversight - even Apple's own very basic Alarm Clock achieves this. Instead I suppose all you can do is create the task as a weekly task, multiple times over for each day of the week when you want it to apply.

Program is good but Update is IOS6 only. I have IOS5 and do not want to update my iPhone 4. Cannot remove it from updates. Looks like a bug Apple !

It would be more motivative if I can track my progress. All you need to do is to make a calendar view.

Simple but very effective. A must-have for everyone!

It will be perfect if we can choose alarm signal from our library. For example GYM will appear with voice alarm saved as an GYM :)!

Almost perfect. Just the kind of thing you would expect the app to do.

I really don’t like cluttering my Things app with normal routing things, so I tried this app to enter all of my regular habits. So far, I really like it. It allows you to set custom intervals for tasks (every 2 weeks, 1st Wednesday of each month, day 15 of each month, once every 3 months), making it very flexible. You can also set custom alerts for each task. There are a lot of settings, but they aren’t too hard to set. It can even be set to uncheck the tasks at the next interval automatically. One thing that it doesn’t do, though, is keep stats on how often you complete your routine, but I don’t really need this for what I am doing. There are a few things I wish the app would do differently. For one thing, if you set an alert, it goes off at the time you set it even if you have checked off the task as completed for that day. It allows you to set a task for a time interval, but you can’t set, for example, a weekly task that can be completed any time during the week. You have to at least set a day. You can set alerts before the time to complete a task, but you can’t set alerts to fire after the time interval if you haven’t completed the task or have repeating alerts if the task is not addressed. It has a today page to show what you need to do today, but it doesn’t allow you to customize it to see more upcoming tasks. Of course, it lacks any kind of cloud sync, but I can live with out this.