Write & edit notes

In Routine, every piece of information that enhances an object is a note. A task can be extended with a description which happens to be a note. Likewise, private notes can be attached to any event. A page is nothing more than a note with a title nested in a hierarchy. And so on for people etc.

A note is composed of a series of blocks representing objects like text, image, checkbox, etc.

Hitting / at the beginning of a line lists all the available blocks.

Do not hesitate to use it to discover the blocks available and create whatever content you need.

Below are listed the blocks supported in Routine along with the associated / command and possible shortcuts.

Multiple blocks can be selected through the use of ⇧ ↑ or ⇧ ↓ (SHIFT+↑↓).

Every block or group of blocks can be re-positioned in the notes by drag & dropping the ⋮⋮ handle on the left-hand side.

Copying blocks is straightforward, just select one or more blocks and hit ⌘/^ C as you would do with regular text. The equivalent is true for cutting with ⌘/^ X.

Those blocks can then be pasted somewhere else within Routine (⌘/^ V) or in the text editor of another application.

To delete blocks, first select one or more blocks, then simply press the ⌫ (BACKSPACE or DELETE) key.

On Routine, checkboxes are full-fledged tasks. These checkboxes (tasks) can be scheduled, opened and further enhanced with a note of their own.

The main difference between checkboxes and tasks you save in your inbox is the ownership relationship. While tasks saved in your inbox are root objects, checkboxes create tasks that belong to the object in which the checkbox was created e.g page, task, event, person etc.

Checkboxes can be created through the / menu or by typing [] at the beginning of a block.

Any existing block (text, bullet point etc.) can be converted into a checkbox, hence a task.

Simply position the caret at the beginning of the line, type [], and the block will be converted into a checkbox.

Every checkbox is followed by the title of the task it relates to.

But because Routine understands natural language, you can schedule, allocate time or even postpone a checkbox the same way you would do with the

Console

Try it for yourself!

Create a checkbox, type a name, append on Tuesday and hit ↵. The task automatically gets scheduled for next Tuesday. You can do the same with in 3 weeks, next weekend, tomorrow at 5pm for 1h etc. For more information on the syntax, please refer to the

Console

Sections can be created through the / menu or through the # , ## and ### shortcuts.

Every section (H1/H2/H3) can be retracted and expanded to hide/show its content.

Simply click the arrow on the left-hand side of the section title and every children block will be hidden/shown.

Routine supports common Markdown formatting like bold, italic, underlined, stricken-through and more.

If you are not as comfortable with Markdown, you can select some text and use the menu to format it:

In addition to explicitly formatting a link in Markdown, Routine also automatically detects links in text to make it ever easier.

As such, if you were to write routine.co anywhere, the text would be automatically transformed into a routine.co link.

Links can be opened by holding the ⌘/^ key and clicking on the link i.e ⌘/^ CLICK (CMD/CTRL+CLICK).