Meals on a schedule
Some things you have almost every day: the same breakfast, a post-workout shake, a morning vitamin. A routine remembers them and brings them back on the days you pick, so logging them is a single tap.
Creating a routine
In your journal, select the foods you want to repeat — tap each entry, or tap a meal's hour to select all of it — and choose Make routine. Give it a name, pick the days, and set its usual time.
The routine keeps the foods and servings exactly as you selected them. If you make it from something you already ate today, today counts as done and the routine starts from its next day.
You can also start one from scratch: in Profile → Routines, tap +, add foods from search with their amounts, then give it a name, days, and a time.
Today's routines
On its days, the routine appears under Today's routines, above your meals. It's shown dimmed and doesn't count toward your totals until you log it.
- Log adds its foods to the journal, grouped as one card. Tap it within two hours of the routine's time and they go in at the moment you tapped, since the same breakfast rarely lands at the same minute; further away — a breakfast you only remember in the afternoon — they go in at the routine's time. Hold Log to choose the time yourself.
- Skip hides it for that day.
- Both show an Undo right after, in case you tapped the wrong one.
In the app you can also plan ahead: a routine shows on each of its days in the next six, under Routines. Log tomorrow's breakfast tonight, or skip Saturday's shake if you know you won't have it. Logging on a day ahead puts its foods on that day at the routine's time, just as if you'd added them by hand there. Past days and days further ahead show no routines — past days stay exactly as you logged them.
Let it log itself
For a routine you never skip — the daily vitamins, the morning coffee — open it in Profile → Routines and turn on Log automatically. On its days, once its time comes, it logs itself at that time: right then if the app is open, or as soon as you open it that day. Its entries carry a repeat mark next to their calories.
- It never logs before its time and never fills in past days. Until its time it shows in your journal marked Automatic, so you can still skip it or log it earlier.
- It needs a connection first, so a routine you already logged or skipped on another device isn't logged twice. Offline, it waits as a normal pending routine for you to log by hand.
- If the app is open when it logs, a notice shows with Undo: that removes the foods and leaves the routine skipped for the day, so it doesn't log itself again. You can also delete the entries like any other.
- Turn it on after today's time and it starts with its next day.
A reminder at its time
If a routine's time comes and you haven't logged or skipped it yet, your phone reminds you; tapping the notification opens your journal. Log or skip it earlier — that day or ahead of time — and it stays quiet that day; undo before its time and the reminder comes back. One limit: for a routine that repeats every day, an answer more than three days ahead reaches the reminder once you open the app on one of the three days before it; if you don't open it in between, that day's reminder still goes off. A routine that logs itself keeps its reminder: if the app wasn't open at its time, the notification brings you back and it logs as soon as the app opens. Paused routines don't remind you.
When a routine falls within an hour and a half of the reminder for the same meal — your usual breakfast at 7:45 and the breakfast reminder at 8:00 — you get one notification, the routine's, instead of two; once the routine is logged or skipped, that meal's reminder stays quiet that day too. A routine further away, like vitamins at 6:00, leaves that meal's reminder as it was.
To stop routine reminders, turn off Remind pending routines under Routines in Profile → Notifications.
Managing your routines
All your routines live in Profile → Routines, with their days, time, and calories. Tap one to change its name, days, time, or foods, to pause it for a while, or to delete it. Deleting a routine never removes what you already logged with it.
Inside a routine, tap a food to change its amount (a dish made of several ingredients can only be removed), swipe it away to remove it, or tap Add food to search for another. The changes apply from its next log — what you already logged stays as it was.
Good to know
- A routine is a snapshot, like a saved meal: editing what you logged later doesn't change the routine.
- Routines are handy for supplements and vitamins you take every day.