Routine's desktop 0.4 has been released with some long-awaited features: time blocking and the journal.

🍾 New Features

• You can now secure/block time for your most important tasks by drag & dropping them in your agenda

• You can resize any event right from the Routine interface, allowing you to better organize and stay in control of your time

• The newly introduced journal allows you to access your past activity, from archived tasks and pages but also past events. This is particularly useful for accessing notes taken in a past meeting for instance. But it as useful for restoring a task or page that has been archived by mistake.

✂️ Improvements

• Routine now refreshes the content automatically: tasks, events etc. You can create tasks through Routine's iOS app or add/remove/change events in Google Calendar and those modifications will automatically be reflected in Routine's desktop app without the need to manually reload the app 🎉

• Pages are now archived instead of deleted and can, as a result, be found and restored from the journal

• You can now select a task and hit CMD+C to copy its title

• You can also edit a task name and select part of its content for copy by using SHIFT+UP/DOWN, SHIFT+ALT+LEFT/RIGHT or even CMD+A to select everything

• The strike-through decoration for archived tasks has been removed to increase readability

• The most recently accessed page is now opened when going back to the Pages section

• Out-of-the-office events are no longer displayed in the agenda

• The creation of subpages has been moved to the page menu

• Some bugs have been fixed:

  • Event notes that were, sometimes, not properly saved

  • Notion integration's schema error at the database level: missing required field: people

  • Checkboxes that were not converted into tasks in notes

  • Clicking on pauses in the dashboard that led to an error

🎯 Coming Next

The next few releases will include:

• The ability to create a checkbox and schedule its related task with natural language

• Text formatting in notes: bold, italic, links etc.

• Auto detection of links in text: task name, description, events etc.

• Improved display of tasks and events when opened

• and many more small improvements

🤗 Shout Outs

• Saskia, Yannick and Pauline for your feedback