Console

The term console refers to the input you use to issue orders, save information, and search.

The console is part of the

Dashboard

dIn other words, whenever you interact with Routine through text instead of clicking, the console is involved.

Through the console, the user can create and manipulate different types of objects, most notably tasks, events and text.

The console comes with natural language capabilities for the user to specify properties. Based on the provided properties, Routine deduces which command the user is likely willing to perform.

If multiple commands are possible, the console lists them for the user to manually select (↑ ↓) and trigger the action of her choice with ↵.

In addition, the console provides a summary of what it has understood of the user input, see below with “Buy sofa on Sun, Apr 17th in 🏡 House”.

Most of the properties are indicated through the use of keywords for the console to understand what is meant. Below are described the commands along with the properties and keywords supported.

Routine allows creating, scheduling (see

Schedule tasks

Block time for important tasks

Postpone tasks

Create regular task

If no keyword is provided, the Routine console will create a task based on the text provided in the console and store this new task in your Inbox.

Schedule regular task

To schedule a task, the console needs the on keyword to be used to specify the scheduled date.

If other properties are specified, the console will not consider this as scheduling but as another action.

Examples:

Allocate time a.k.a block time

To block time with the console, you need to specify a date, time, and duration.

While the on keyword is used to specify the date, at is used to indicate the precise time while for is used to provide a duration.

A few points must be noted:

Examples:

Routine allows creating recurrent tasks. For more information, please refer to

Recur tasks

Create recurrent task

To create a recurring task, the user must indicate the frequency through the use of the every keyword.

In addition, the starting and ending dates can be specified through the starting and until keywords.

Examples:

Routine allows creating events right from the console.

Create regular event

As for time allocation for tasks, the date, time and duration properties must be provided through the on, at and for keywords.

A few points must be noted:

Examples:

Schedule regular meeting

Routine provides the with keyword to specify participants, resulting in the ability to schedule meetings.

A few points must be noted:

Add text

In addition to creating tasks and events, Routine also allows to add text directly in the notes of any object as part of your knowledge graph.

In order to reference the target object, the user must make use of the redirection functionality through the > and / keywords.

Also, make sure that an object (task, event, page, person, tag etc.) is referenced. Referencing a calendar for instance would not work because calendar are not Routine objects with notes.

Below are listed the keywords Routine supports:

The console comes with a powerful completion mechanism which suggests the most likely items you are likely to type next, saving you precise time.

We advise you to make use of this mechanism as often as possible to increase your productivity.

Whenever the console displays suggestions, you can use the ↑↓ arrows to navigate and press ⇥ (TAB) or ↵ to validate the element you want to select.

If often happens when you capture a task, note, thought etc. that this information needs to be organized, next to other information on the same topic for instance, being movies to watch, stuff related to your house, a person or even a project.

Routine allows to specify the parent in which the object should be created. The same mechanism is used for specifying the calendar which should hold an event.

In order to specify the holder, use the > character followed by the name of the parent object or the name of the calendar.

You can go one step further and use the / character as a separator to indicate the heading (H1/H2/H3) under which the created object should be placed.

Some actions are so common that it would be nice to be able to do without the keywords for those.

Routine can therefore detect the special words below without the need to use keywords

The same is true for default ranges:

Sometimes, you want to type text that include a word that the console interprets as a keyword e.g in, on, every etc. or as a special e.g tomorrow.

In order to tell Routine not to interpret a word, just hit ⎋ (ESCAPE) on the keyword or when suggestions are displayed and the console will consider the input as normal text.

Routine supports the following formats.