Routine AI - Control work with your voice. The Siri for work.
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Routine AI lets you control your tasks, calendar, notes and projects using your voice.
Just talk naturally to schedule meetings, add reminders, capture ideas, write notes, search your knowledge, update projects and automate repetitive work.
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Honestly kind of surprised how well the calendar and tasks fit together, like everything just lives in one place without feeling cluttered. The wiki is pretty barebones though.
Routine
Thanks @melisnceda1tw6 . What's missing in the note editor in your opinion?
honestly looks solid, the all-in-one angle is super appealing. one thing that would push this over the edge for me is a proper meeting notes template that auto-links to the relevant task or project page, basically turning a random note into actual traceable work without extra clicking.
Routine
Hey @demet75124 . Well even better, meetings are automatically recorded and transcribed. Then, you can define an AI automation to run to do whatever you want with the transcript.
The default automation summarizes the transcript and updates the event with the summary above the transcript.
But you can do whatever you want. You could create tasks in your team workspace and assign the tasks automatically.
One thing that would make Routine a lot more useful for me is a built-in time-tracking view that lives inside tasks, so I can see how long things actually take without bouncing to a separate timer app. A simple weekly breakdown by project would be enough.
Routine
When you open a task, you have the list of allocations i.e the time you blocked to work on that task. Plus you can run a timer for a specific task. When it stops, it records the time in your calendar as an additional allocation. So basically exactly what you describe.
honestly looks solid, the all in one angle is appealing. one thing i'd want is a built in pomodoro or focus timer that syncs with the task list, kind of a small quality of life thing but it would make routine feel more like the hub for actual work rather than just organization.
Routine
@keremdiben, Routine does have a Pomodoro timer, and task-specific times as well. All synced with tasks and events.
Terminal Candy
voice for capturing tasks makes total sense, i lose half my ideas walking between meetings. the part i always doubt is corrections. when it mishears a name or a date, can i fix it by voice or am i back to typing? that flow is what would make or break it for me
Routine
You're right@terminal_candy . But the assistant will get better overtime as it continues learning about you. Also, remember that nothing gets done without your approval at the end. So if it really did make a mistake, just tell it that it is wrong.
The way you bundle tasks, docs, and calendars into a single clean interface without it feeling cluttered is really impressive. Took me about ten seconds to figure out where everything lives.
Routine
Thank you very much@erifehalil29098
honestly looks solid, the calendar + tasks combo is what i usually end up juggling across like three apps. one thing that would be really useful is a quick "focus mode" that hides everything except your current task and its linked docs, basically a stripped down view when you actually need to get stuff done without distractions.
Routine
Hey @cananim6v . We never did the focus mode because only 50 people or so asked for it.
However, the Agenda screen already plays a similar role: displaying only what matters to you today. No 5- or 7-day calendar events, no long todo list. Just the tasks & events for today.
Check it out:
I wonder if the biggest challenge is changing habits. Most people already have a way of managing tasks, even if it's inefficient. What has convinced users to switch?
Routine
Hey @reda_roqai_chaoui . It depends what they change from. Many users switch from Notion because Notion is great but gets super messy. Routine is more structured, yet flexible enough for it to evolve. Users switching from Todoist are usually looking for a tool that can handle more than just tasks i.e notes, calendars etc.
voice control for calendar and tasks sounds great until you say something ambiguous and it moves the wrong meeting or deletes the wrong reminder. with something like 'move my afternoon meetings to Friday' - does it show a confirmation of what it's about to change before committing, or does it just execute and you find out after the fact if it misheard something?
Routine
Hey @omri_ben_shoham1 . Yes everything is summarized before it commits. Nothing is done in real-time. That would be too dangerous as you rightly pointed out.
the example command in the launch bundles three separate actions in one utterance (move meetings, block time, set a reminder). if one of those three fails to resolve - say the Friday slot is already double-booked - does it still summarize and confirm the two that worked, or does the whole chain get held up waiting on the one that's ambiguous?
Routine
Hey @galdayan . Yes the assistant will check that there is a conflict and warn you. And in any case, it summarizes everything beforehand so you can edit (with voice) or commit.
@jmq that's the right call - summarize and let me commit or fix rather than silently guessing on the ambiguous one. blocking the whole chain on one bad slot would be worse than flagging it and moving on with the rest. good to know it's handled that way already.