Written By Julien Quintard
Last updated About 1 month ago
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.
💡 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, tasks for the day etc. but also use the Console to write down some notes, create a quick task etc.
🎯 Agenda
The Agenda‘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.
📅 Calendar
The Calendar 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.
📥 Inbox
The Inbox is intended to act as your go-to place for triaging, cleaning, organizing things that you have saved for later.
Those of you familiar with the Getting Things Done (GTD) method, will instantly recognize its value.
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, go through your Inbox (the same way you go through your email inbox) and process it until you reach Inbox Zero.
☑️ Tasks
The Tasks screens aggregates everything about your tasks: unplanned, recurring and upcoming.
🗒️ 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 (Apple Notes, Evernote, Bear etc.) provide but with a modern approach allowing to:
Embed media-rich content (videos, images etc.)
Turn non-actionable information (e.g text) into a task
You can use pages to organize a trip, to list your favorite movies, to plan the renovation of your house etc.
Note however that Routine provides more advanced ways to organize different kinds of information.
