Are you wrangling with daily recurring tasks, especially those related to your housework? You may clutter your e-mails and calendars with all the to-do lists apart from the sticky notes on your refrigerator and a huge to-do list on your mobile phone and desktop – just not to skip a work mistakenly. Our household chores usually bundle monotonous works and are assumed to be completely unacknowledged. You may either use pen and paper, organizers or numerous online to-do lists or heavy applications on your PC to write down all the tasks and to clear your head. But, you have always sought after an application to ensure plan tasks in advance, focus on tasks, remind you of those, mark progress and yes, you can now award your accomplishments with star marks. All these things can be done using one simple and clean application on your iPhone – that is HomeRoutines.
How is HomeRoutines different from other applications?Â
The HomeRoutines iPhone app is created by a mother of three, Rosie. The developer being a mother of three kids knows no better than any other women who constantly feel pulled toward different directions while juggling among office, family, kids, friends and outside jobs. HomeRoutines is designed as a clean, simple and customizable application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now HomeRoutines is available as a different version for iPad too. The app is designed to cover complicated structure of housework systems to keep the work easy to achieve. Plus, the HomeRoutines lets you customize the app according to your way of working.
You must be already using some of the applications for organizing your household works prior to downloading HomeRoutines on your iPhone or iPad. Some of the most popular and frequently used applications for running and managing household errands are –
- FlyLady Control Journal
- Organized Home Household Notebook,
- Daily 7 jobs from Totally Together Journal
- Brain On Paper from HabitHacker
All of these applications will gel well with the HomeRoutines iPhone app. Great! Now, let’s see how to make the most of this app in running household errands and finishing tasks on time. Ladies, here are the things that you can do and make your life easier, reward yourself for your accomplishments!
How to use HomeRoutines?
Create and follow tasks
Define as many tasks that you are focused to do and decide on which days those should appear and when you want them to be reset. Every time you will achieve a task, you can reward yourself with a gold star. You can also clear the stars and get tasks reset on other days or week.
Easy to stay focused
It is utterly easy to stay focused at your goal by using Focus feature for everything. You can study reminders, perform your goal, plan menu, family fun. Schedule your tasks any day or week to keep your due tasks organized at your fingertips. Unlike other applications, this HomeRoutines is simple that keeps it free from prioritization or due dates as the tasks get reset automatically.
Analyze your performance at the end of the day
Do you get fanatic about the errands at hand until they are complete and feel zero productive at the end of the day? Then, this app is appropriate for you as it allows you to review the progress of your work. The HomeRoutines comprises accomplishments screen that lists all that you have marked complete during a day and can feel proud gold stars you have attained.
Manage tasks from the Focus Zones
HomeRoutines iPhone and iPad app is divided into several chunks of focus zones (five, six or seven even) on a rotating schedule. Here, you can follow the pattern of the Flylady’s zone schedule in this HomeRoutines app and choose one zone as one week of the month.
HomeRoutines – an app for a perfectionist
If you are a perfectionist, then you will find the best task organizer in HomeRoutines. The prim and perfect user interface of HomeRoutines gives an impetus to start off a fresh day with fresh set of works. The app does not record data and gets reset automatically with a pre-defined set of tasks. As HomeRoutines will begin with a new set of errands, it will give you no reasons to feel frustrated about incomplete tasks of previous day and feel no guilt pangs about what you could not do yesterday.
