What are TearOff Routines?
TearOff has several pre-built routines to help you through the day. Some of the them seem incredily simple, but that is intentional. When your brain refuses to cooprate, you need something to lean on so you don't forget the basics. For me, those basics include very simple things like "Drink Water", "Shower", and "Take evening medication". Autonomic for many. An absolute blackhole for people with executive dysfunction.
Rountine - Throughout the Day
One example of a routine is Throughout the Day, a set of simple tasks that I'm prone to forget about on certain days. The tasks are very simple like "Eat Snack", "Drink Water", and "Stretch/Mode Body". Adding multiple instances of one of these tasks will place it in your stack throughout the day - otherwise you'd end up with three straight task to drink water.
The Purpose of TearOff's Routines
- adhd and time-blindness can mean we miss simple tasks like remembering to drink water, eat lunch, or take our medication
- low-cognition days can be made worse because we forget to take care of ourselves and those around us
- brain fog can leave us in a state of contant befuddlement
- some days we need them, some days we don't. that's fine
- not every day is the same, transitioning from only taking care of yourself to caring for yourself and others can feel like a massive cognitive load
- somtimes your to-do list is more than just the big things, sometimes you need a task that tells you to take a 20 minute break
- decision paralysis can strike even before you have a defined list of things to do because you can't even decide when to shower or eat.
What about your own routines?
TearOff's pre-built routines cover a lot of the basics but they cannot cover your routines. You can build your own by using the Rapid Routine feature when you add a new task. This let's you enter your one task per line to quickly set your routine. Shortcodes also allow you to add aditional data to your task. Entering Call doctor @2pm will create a time bound task that will bubble to the top of your task when it's time. Adding a slash / after your task with a number will assign a typical duration for the task.
Once your tasks are loaded, you can go to the 'Today's Tasks` screen and save it as a routine. Once you do, it will be available to add to today's stack stack anytime.