In Routine, objects can have one or more Notes properties.

Such notes are ideal to enrich data with non-structured information e.g rich text.

A note is composed of a series of blocks representing text, image, lists of bullet points etc.

👨‍💻 / Command

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.

🧱 Blocks

Create blocks

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

• Text

• Lists

  • Bullet lists: * or - followed by a ⎵ (SPACE)

  • Ordered lists: 0., 1., 2. etc. followed by a ⎵

  • Check: () followed by a ⎵

• Headings: #, ##, ### followed by a ⎵

• Quote: | followed by a ⎵

• Divider: ---

• etc.

Select blocks

A single block can be selected by clicking the ⋮⋮ next to the block. Then, multiple blocks can be selected through the use of ⇧ ↑ or ⇧ ↓ (SHIFT+↑↓).

Alternatively, drawing a rectangular area over blocks allow to quickly select multiple blocks.

Move blocks

Every block selection (single or multiple) can be re-positioned in the notes by drag & dropping the ⋮⋮ handle on the left-hand side.

Copy, cut & paste blocks

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.

Delete blocks

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

🎓 Headings

Create headings

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

Expand/retract sections

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.

🎨 Formatting

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

• Bold: double stars

• Italic: single star

• Stricken-through: double tildes

• Underlined: single underscore

• Code: single backquote

• Links: square brackets (with optional link between parentheses)

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

🔗 Links

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).