Quick tour

Let's take a quick tour at the different screens of the Routine app.

📋 Dashboard

The Dashboard is not a screen per se but kind of an app in itself.

The dashboard is powerful because it can be opened from anywhere on your desktop through the ^ ⎵ (i.e CTRL+SPACE) hotkey.

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Note that the Routine symbol (above the menu) can also be used to open the dashboard. We however recommend using the Keyboard shortcuts as much as possible to perform actions more quickly.

At any time (even during meetings 😉), you can check your upcoming events and tasks for the day but also use the Console to write down a task to be performed later (see Create & manage tasks).

🎯 Agenda

The Agenda screen’s purpose is to force you to concentrate on what matters right now, the upcoming events, the tasks you've decided to complete today etc.

This is the most central screen of the application, the one you should be referring to the most when in execution mode. See Events & tasks of the day for more information.

📅 Calendar

The Calendar screen combines both your tasks and events through a weekly visualization.

The tasks for which you have not set a specific date are displayed on the left-hand side along with the events & task allocations of the weeks from all your calendars. Under each day are listed the tasks you have scheduled for that specific day.

You can read more about how to plan your work through Organize your week and Postpone tasks.

📥 Inbox

The Inbox is a screen that comes from the GTD methodology.

The idea is that everything you need to remember should be stored in a reliable system instead of staying on your mind.

On the app, everything you capture through the Console is stored in your Inbox for you to organize later. You can think of it as your second memory.

From time to time, Capture everything the same way you go through your email inbox to get it all cleaned up, also referred to as Inbox Zero.

☑️ Tasks

The Tasks screens aggregates everything about your tasks: unplanned, recurring and upcoming.

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For more information on regular and recurrent tasks, please refer to Create & manage tasks.

🗒️ Notes

The Notes screens contains everything related to your notes.

The Pages allow you to take notes on the topics of your choices while Meetings summarizes aggregates the notes you took in events.

Pages are similar to what notes taking apps (Evernote, Bear etc.) provide but with a modern approach allowing to:

1. Embed media-rich content (videos, images etc.)
2. Turn non-actionable information (e.g text) into a task

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Unlike most notes taking apps, checkboxes in Routine represent full-fledged tasks that can be scheduled, postponed, delegated and even extended with a description of their own. For more information, please refer to Write & edit notes.

You can use pages to organize a trip, to list your favorite movies, to plan the renovation of your house etc.

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You can read more about pages in the Create and organize pages article.

⚙️ Settings

The Settings screen is quite straightforward, allowing you to change the Keyboard shortcuts, turn on Dark Mode, enable/disable calendars, connect accounts and activate integrations.

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Something missing? Send us a message by email, chat (see Contact) or through the app.