Introduction

A Routine is a checklist for tasks that you need to do again and again. You can make as many routines as you like, for anything you like: housework, drinking your water, exercise, homeschooling, gardening, work routines – whatever suits you. Many fine productivity experts recommend using Routines to ensure you complete all the tasks you consider important, as well as helping build good habits.  With HomeRoutines you create these checklists, then choose which days of the week they appear on, and upon which days they will reset.  You can also choose to be reminded to start your routine.

Completing Tasks on a Routine

1. Touch the Routine name on the home screen
2. Give yourself a gold star for completing a task, by touching a greyed-out star
   You can touch it again to make it grey again.
3. As you complete your tasks, the star for that routine on the home screen will gradually fill in with gold.  When all the tasks are complete, the star will be completely gold.

Manually Resetting a Routine’s Stars

Touch the star outline button at the bottom of your Routine screen, and all the completed stars will be cleared (after a confirmation screen so you don’t accidentally clear them)

Sharing the tasks in a routine

Touch the action button at the bottom of your Routine screen to share the task list by email.

Creating a New Routine and Adding Tasks to it

1. Touch Edit at the top of the Home screen. (If you’re using an iPad, you need to rotate your iPad to horizontal to see the Edit button)
2. Touch Add Routine
3. The keyboard will appear. Type in the name of your routine.
4. Touch Return
   The new routine will be added to the end of your routine list.
5. Touch Done to go back to the Home screen.

Adding Tasks to a New Routine

1. Touch your new routine to go to its screen.
2. Since there are no tasks in your new routine yet, touch Add task and enter your task using the keyboard.
   Touch Return when you’ve finished typing it in, and you will move right away into a new text box for the next task in your list.
3. When you’ve entered all your tasks for your routine, just touch Done and you will be on the screen for your new routine.
4. Now you can start doing those jobs and giving yourself those gold stars. Well done you!