Habit Hub: Routine Tracker

I have ASD and have some executive functioning issues which have been exacerbated during the pandemic. I tried a few other apps to keep me on task/on schedule and found it was too easy for me to ignore them. But this app? This app works! 1) I love that it’s a widget! I can see what I need to do right from the home screen without having to open the app. That’s super helpful! Because of my EF issues, if I have to seek it out a lot of the time it’s not happening. I can miss notifications, but not if it’s on my Home Screen. 2) Thank you for %’s and grades. This is how my brain works. Since I’ve put a daily exercise routine as one of my tasks, I’m actually completing it so I can stay at a 90% “grade”. This is the first year I’ve actually stuck out a workout routine because of it! 3) I can keep track of tasks that are weekly, monthly, etc. Instead of wondering the last time I cleaned out the fridge, I can check the app. I feel like I’m on top of things instead of drowning in a bunch of stuff that needs to be done or hasn’t been done in months since I keep forgetting about it. This app has been literally life changing for me. I feel much more in control of my own life and home in ways that I never have before. Thank you so, so much!

I think that this app just might save my life! I have had problems with routine my entire existence, to the bane of many surrounding me unfortunately. Part of this is a mere me problem as I tend to be more of the creative sort with some probable ADD and not very regimented. People have described me as free spirited and quite bohemian. Well, now I’m a grown-up but I don’t act like one because I am so disorganized and, until now, couldn’t seem to establish...much less hold...a routine for anything. I’ve also had many situations such as chronic illness in life hold me back where it’s made it hard for me to try to establish one as well to be fair. On top of that I’ve had several head injuries so my memory is a real issue where I used to be gifted in that way and it was a strong compensatory strength to offset my lack of routine because of the ability to cram well. Alas, those days are over. Presently however, this is powerfully changing my my day to day life. I cannot even explain how much this app has really helped me. I’m going to get a puppy soon. I’ve already scheduled many of the future tasks/training I plan on doing with the puppy. I can tweak later. However, atm? I look like a dismal failure as I don’t really have a dog ha ha. I’m still keeping it running for the other things that I am successfully completing though 😊. It really is a great app thank you very much! You must be a little OCD? Lol just playing. Anyone can look OCD next to me! THANKS AGAIN!!!!

I’ve tried a lot of apps to help me improve my habits and manage my routines, but this is the first one that has both flexibility AND simplicity. There is a little bit of a learning curve to setting up habits with certain settings, but once they are set up, the app is super simple in day to day use. One thing I really like is the ability to easily set up timed routines. I use these for my morning and evening routines to stay focused and get things done in way less time. By setting a certain number of minutes for each task, I am able to stay on track and get a list of tasks done in an hour that would likely take me 90 minutes if a timer wasn’t running. I’d like to see is the ability to override certain app settings on a habit by habit basis. For instance, I have to file certain reports to the IRS on a monthly basis that are due by the 15th. I set a habit to have me do it monthly on the 5th. If I don’t do it by midnight on the 5th, it marks the habit as incomplete and it disappears until next month. For daily habits, like flossing my teeth for example, that’s appropriate. But for monthly tasks it’s often hard to predict the exact day you’ll be able to do something. A checkbox to tell the app to keep it active until complete would be great. It would also be great to be able to “push back” habits by an hour, several hours, a day, or several days so that something that’s in the red can be moved down the list a bit instead of skipping them completely.