That’s it, Routine 1.0 is here!

This is a huge milestone for both the product and the team behind it.

Routine wouldn’t exist without your feedback, support, and patience along the way. Thank you 🙏.

Now, let’s dive into what’s new.

🌐 Google agnostic

You can now sign up/in by email and most importantly use Routine without Google.

🧩 Integrations

A lot of integrations have been added to Routine, with a lot more to come in the coming months. Some integrations are task, calendar or contact specific, while other synchronize (always bidirectionally) with a Routine database.

🏷️ Labels & priorities

Labels have been introduced for you to easily organize and group your tasks by topic. The same labelling system can be used to label/tag your contacts, events and pages.

In addition, quick capture has been improved to support setting labels as you create tasks; simply press # to list all the labels and select one.

❗ Priorities

As for labels, you can now set the priority of your tasks.

Just open a task and set the priority field or use the ! symbol in the quick capture console.

🍔 Navigation sidebar/menu

The menu has been improved to better understand the difference between your private objects (tasks/events/pages/contacts) and the organizations you are part of.

The menu now groups the pinned objects per organizations so that it is easier to understand to which organization they belong.

In addition, the menu items can now dragged to reorder and right clicked to act quickly on the object being pinned.

👁️‍🗨️ Context, everywhere

Contextual capture has always been one of the impressive features in Routine’s quick capturing mechanism, allowing to capture the browser’s URL, selected text etc. as you create a task, giving it more information or context.

This mechanism has now been extended to work with any type to add context to anything that you create through the dashboard’s quick capture.

Here is how it works.

1. Edit the type you want to enhance to add a Context property

2. Whenever you open the dashboard’s quick capture, use the as keyword to select the type of object you want to create

3. Choose to create an object of that type with or without the context

Here is an example with a Candidate database to which a context property has been added.

Whenever you are on LinkedIn for example, you can quickly add the person to your database of candidates.

You will find the context property filled so you can click to go back to the context, in this instance, the LinkedIn page.

In addition, you can now select a file in your Finder and open the dashboard’s quick capture and the file will be uploaded and attached as part of the context.

🏠 Organization & workspace

New screens have been introduced as entry points for your organizations and workspaces.

The organization screen lists the workspaces and integrations while the workspace screen displays the databases and the hierarchy of objects to easily browse your data.

Note that those screens can be pinned to the menu for easy and quick access.

💽 Databases

The database views have been greatly improved and now feature:

• Better filtering/grouping/sorting, with searchable input fields

• A view-based search

• A title tag to indicate which property acts as the title

• Right click on rows to quickly act upon them

• Improved dragging between groups (e.g Kanban board)

Also, databases can now be pinned to the menu for easy access.

📆 Calendar

The calendar now features a brand new 3-day layout.

📄 Notes

The note editor has been improved with the following:

• You can now press SHIFT+ENTER to create a new line within a block

• Embeds now support 2000+ providers. That should be enough to cover most of your cases 😜

• Whenever you paste a link in Routine, the editor now offers you to convert it into an embed or create a reference

• You can now copy the link of a block e.g to share with someone or create a reference with

  

• Stamps have been introduced to let you provide more structure to your document such as the current date, week etc.

  

• Large content pasting has been improved e.g when copying a document from another app and pasting it in Routine

🤖 AI meeting notes

AI meeting recording has been improved to be more reliable.

But more importantly, auto start/stop has been added so that recording starts as soon as you open the meeting.

Note that you can disable auto start in your Preferences.

👉 Coming Next

The team is currently focused on bring powerful AI to Routine, allowing you to delegate work to specialized agents and automate your work.