routine it's what we all try and do every single day but it's a new application we're going to be
reviewing in today's video and giving you our first opinions as this application is
fairly new to the market so let's go into today's video so routine has been around for a little bit
of time now i think even less than a year maybe a year around that sort of benchmark and it already
has a mac ios and windows application and it is beautifully designed it's a sort of new
application to some extent it's this new realm of productivity applications called daily planners
and it's something we've seen quite a lot recently with apps like motion sensama and akiflo
growing quite well in the market as task managers lose potential and be able to collectively plan
your day ahead now routine is actually a y combinator startup so it did go through that
process which is something that a lot of other companies have gone through so let's look at
major features i think the first feature that stands out inside of this application
is the capture abilities you have something called a console in this application where for example
if you're on the mac version you can bring the console up with the keyboard shortcut and it
stands on the screen really nicely allowing you to capture anything from an idea or thought even
to a task that you may even want to recur the capture abilities is something that i definitely
think looks really nice inside of the console inside of routine and it's definitely something
that works well alongside of the events that you can see on side of the console as well now
essentially once you're inside of routine the application you can see a check you can see a
schedule of planned for today but you can also go to your calendar and plan out the week ahead
this is some fairly recent updates in their calendar management but definitely looks really
nice i think they've got a nice strike between the balance of managing and time blocking with
tasks inside of this look you can even block a bit of focus time out so you're making sure you are
focused on actionable work ahead now inside this application they really have a notion like ability
called pages a way to create pages that may for example be lists and that you might want to add
to in the future a good example of this that they covered on their youtube channel is a movies list
for example being able to add a movie's lift through capture on the console is actually quite
easy and looks really nice reminds me very much to what mems spotlight are doing so some personal
favorite features inside of this after playing around with it one of my things that i quite like
is the meetings experience when you have an event that you connect with your google calendar you can
actually take notes inside of a meeting which is really nice and it's very much like magical
which is an application that's coming out very soon that focuses on this market as i said one
of the console features was really nice being able to see events and tasks but also plan them in was
a really nice functionality in the console one of my favorite features is the smart natural language
input that allows you to create tasks inside of your console this is just a nice addition i loved
it inside of todoist and i think they've done a good job of this so let's take a look at the score
and summary this application is new to the market and there's loads of them the noise is incredible
but i think they've done a good job of building the application and providing a unique selling
point with the console i think they've also done a good job of managing the calendar and focusing
more on time blocking which is a really effective productivity technique i'd probably give this
app a b plus the only thing that i'd say that i struggled with was the fact that there's quite
a lot to learn inside this application in where to go for relevant things feels like there's too
many tabs to such a simple beautifully designed application but at the same time it does a good
job and i think it's console is definitely the standout feature for me anyway folks
let me know whether you've tried routine it'd be great to hear in the description below and i look
forward to you guys coming back on the channel very soon anyway folks i'll see you soon cheerio
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