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 ====== Routine ======
-This evaluation of Routine was made on March 15, 2025.
+This evaluation of Routine was made on March 15, 2025. Please note: these are very rough notes.
 [[https://routine.co/|Routine]] is a task management ("work everything"?) app that has a few interesting design choices and other questions:
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 Overall, I'm optimistic about Routine. However, it does seem to miss enough details that I'm not sure I can rely on it. Specifically, I feel like the lack of flexibility about recurrence is enough to make me not use it.
-Many elements of the design are nice -- from the "agenda" view that shows the day's schedule with the details that are specific to that day, along with the tasks for the day that aren't scheduled. The overall UI design is stylish and seems nice compared to Motion, for example. But it also lacks the polish that one would maybe necessarily expect.
+Many elements of the design are nice, like the "agenda" view that shows the day's schedule with the details that are specific to that day, along with the tasks for the day that aren't scheduled. The overall UI design is stylish and seems nice compared to Motion, for example. But it also lacks the polish that one would maybe expect. For example, you cannot reorder some tasks via drag-and-drop -- this is on the roadmap.
-I found the experience of scheduling tasks on mobile to be generally a lot of work. Changing a scheduled item requires moving it around with UI elements, which is not ideal.
+I found the experience of scheduling tasks on mobile to be generally a lot of work. Changing a scheduled item requires manually changing the time, not moving it by dragging on the calendar, which is not ideal.
 I think that app developers face a really annoying set of problems trying to support Android, iOS, installed apps, and web. I feel for these developers.