« Routines chez soi » a French translation of Home Routines
Home Routines now has a French version! L’application « Home Routines » est disponible en français ! La version française s’appelle « Routines chez soi »
Physical Focus Cues: Things to wear
Adding real-world physical or sensory cues can help remind you to stay on task. These could be clothing, footwear, or even a particular soundtrack.
Newsletter July 2025
We’re happy to announce that we have brought back the Daily Messages feature to the app.
Home Routines 4 is live
Home Routines 4 is now available in the app store!
Newsletter June 2024
Hello, friends! How is your June going? It’s the middle of winter, here in New Zealand. Where we are (Auckland) it’s pretty mild, so for me this just means a light cardigan on errands day. Or a puffer jacket if I go for a walk down the chilly beach (for mental health purposes, and to…
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“5 by 5s” five star rating!
Recently I’ve been really enjoying catching up on the excellent videos and resources produced by Steph at The Secret Slob. She has a great speed cleaning hack that she calls “5×5”. She uses a timer to keep on task, and zips around cleaning five rooms, for five minutes each. If she has extra time at…
Mmm, frog
I’m kind of fond of frogs. My maiden name was a little bit froggish (well it had a “croak” in it!) and I used to love the Mercer Mayer books about that mischievous wee froggy and his shenanigans with his boy. Anyway, there is a lot of advice shared about eating frogs in the productivity-sphere…
Rock that timer – 15 minutes of sucky tasks
I wrote yesterday about rocking your timer, but this morning I read Steady Mom’s post about Suffering for 15 minutes and it was groundbreaking to me. A lot of advice seems to assume that once you decide to set your timer to do something that you’re immediately going to spring up full of vigour and…
Rock that timer: Using a timer to get started and keep going
Take five minutes. Just five. Set a timer. If you’re on the couch or in bed, look to see the closest surface to you. It’s probably the coffee table or your nightstand. For those five minutes, just focus on that one surface. Clear it off, throw stuff away, maybe even dust it. So when your…
Find your Most Important Tasks. Do them.
I don’t know about you, but I usually have about a million things that I feel like I should be doing. The end result is often… not actually doing them. I try and keep the regular, recurring tasks under control by corralling them into routines and zone tasks, but there are always one-off jobs and…