Rhythm — routines, focus, and reviews
From taking medication to focused work: choose what to do today, record what you did, and look back on your week or month.
Open Rhythm
- Today: choose a date in the weekly strip and record your planned routines.
- Records: write and read one-line records for the day or month. Routine and focus history is folded at the bottom.
- Review: see last week's or month's routines and focus time, and note one thing to change.
- Routines: add templates, set repetition, and manage paused routines. Use View history in each routine’s ⋯ menu to see its streak and calendar. Change Times of day, the Time zone for days, and Rhythm reminders from the gear at the top (Rhythm settings).
- Focus: open it from the Focus button at the top of any screen. Create and run routines in sequence on the focus screen too.
- If you see a message that Rhythm is being prepared, you can still use your existing records. New mobile features and widgets appear in supported app versions.
Open Rhythm from the sidebar on web or desktop, or from the full menu on mobile. The former Log address still works. On the web, Rhythm is always shown in the sidebar. If it is missing from the bottom menu at phone-sized widths, choose Show the setup wizard again under Settings → General and pick Turn on every menu. Active routines are limited to 5 on Free and 100 on the paid plans; routine sequences to 1 and 20 respectively. Archived routines do not count until reactivated. Weekly and monthly reviews cover the last 30 days on Free and all dates on the paid plans. The calendar, best streak, and completion rate in a routine’s history follow the same window. Focus timers, access to raw records, and the streak on Today remain available on every plan.
Start a routine from a template
Choose an activity
Select Add routine to start on Suggested sets, or browse All, Health & care, Food & drink, Exercise & activity, Work & focus, Learning & growth, Home & chores, or Mind & rest. Search 87 templates, including taking medication, having coffee, and exercising, and set up to 28 at once.
Make the schedule yours
Check each routine name, time of day, repetition, and goal before saving. You can rename and reorder them in Times of day under Rhythm settings (the gear at the top); routines in a deleted time of day move to the one that can’t be deleted (first named Anytime). Choose Build manually for an activity that is not listed.
Start with a suggested set
Choose one of 13 suggested sets, such as Morning start, Before work, Team sync, Fitness habit, Healthy eating, Evening wind-down, or Weekend chores, to configure related routines together. Each set lists its routines, and on the setup screen every routine shows its repeat and reminder in one line, so you only expand the ones you want to change. When adding several routines, turn on Also save as a sequence to run them one after another from the focus screen.
Set daily, weekly, or monthly repetition
- Daily: repeat every day or at a chosen interval, such as drinking water each morning.
- Weekly: choose weekdays such as Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, or choose a flexible goal such as exercising on three days per week.
- Monthly: select dates, the last day, or an ordinal weekday. A missing date can move to the last day or be skipped that month. Flexible monthly goals are also available.
- Tracking: use a count or duration. Flexible weekly and monthly goals can also count days performed; several entries on the same day count as one day. You can set a smaller goal for the first period.
- Start and end: set these under More options, along with the repeat interval, the first-period goal, and the start of the week. A routine whose values differ from the defaults opens with them shown.
- Time zone for days: one per account rather than per routine. The default is Asia/Seoul. Change it under Time zone for days on the Routines tab and it applies to every routine’s “today,” execution dates, and reminder times. The dates of records you already made stay as they are, and if your device’s time zone differs, Today shows a notice once.
- When you change repetition, the new settings apply from the date shown in the editor. Past goals and records stay intact.
Decide whether the activity belongs on set dates or whether you want to reach a goal within a period. Check the next dates or first period before saving.
Check the week and record progress
- Press a routine’s check to record it once for count goals; press it again after reaching the goal to undo the last entry. For duration goals the check opens Log time (or use the focus timer). Record again past the goal, Start focus, and Undo last entry are in the row’s ⋯ menu. An excluded entry stops counting toward totals but stays in Records, and you can bring it back with Undo in the notice or Restore in Records.
- Choose Do today from the ⋯ menu on a flexible weekly or monthly goal to put it in today’s time-of-day list. Progress still adds up across the whole period.
- Choose Skip today from the ⋯ menu when resting from a scheduled routine. That day is excluded from the review’s planned count, and routines in sequence pass over that step. Recording actual progress again clears the skip. You can add a one-line reason first (optional, up to 200 characters); leave it empty to skip without one. The reason does not appear on Today and is shown only in the routine’s history. Undo skip applies immediately, and swiping to skip on mobile does not ask for a reason.
- Routine rows on Today show a streak such as 3-day streak (weekly routines count weeks, monthly routines count months). A streak continues when you complete every occurrence in the routine’s repeat period. Skipped days, rest periods, the original day of a moved occurrence, days with nothing planned, and the current period before it ends do not break it. Missing a past occurrence ends the streak, and an ended streak is hidden instead of showing 0. It appears only from 2 up, only when you are viewing today, and never on paused routines.
- Choose View history from a routine’s ⋯ menu to see the current streak, best streak, completion rate, a month calendar, and the skip reasons. Calendar days are shown as achieved, partly done, skipped, or not achieved. Months outside your plan’s statistics window (the last 30 days on Free) show a lock notice and a link to plans.
- Select a past date to record work you already did. Future dates show plans without allowing progress entries.
Select a Monday–Sunday date on Today to see plans and progress. Move to another week or choose a date directly. With larger text on a small screen, scroll the date strip horizontally to reach the other days.
Focus on a task
Choose your focus time
Open the focus space with the Focus button at the top, or with the start-focus button next to a duration-based routine. Then tap the summary line above the dial to open focus settings, where you can use the 15, 25, or 50 minute presets or choose Pomodoro or a free timer. Adjust focus time, short and long breaks, and the number of rounds before a long break.
Link a routine or task
Select a routine in focus settings. Enter at least two characters in the linked task field to find an existing task. Actual focus time is recorded with that task and its project.
Record and take a break
Pauses are excluded, and ending a session records actual focus time. When the timer ends, confirm completion, then start a break or the next focus session yourself. Breaks do not count as focus time. If you focused past midnight, Record date in the focus space lets you choose the start date (the default) or the finish date. After you finish focus in the focus space on this device, a one-line “What did you do?” field appears (it does not appear when you finish from the floating timer, the timer on Today, or the desktop tray). Choose Add to daily record to save it as a note in the daily record for that session’s record date. It is optional, and it disappears when you start a new session or leave the screen.
Continue automatically (Pomodoro)
Turn on Continue automatically (off by default) in focus settings, and each focus session is recorded at its end time, followed by a break and then the next focus session. It stops after the long break. Even with the app closed, the server records and starts the next session based on the end time, and a session with Continue automatically on is dated by the day it started, so there is no record-date control. Choose End to stop the chain. A free timer and a routine sequence never move on automatically.
Run routines in sequence
Create your sequence
Choose Create a sequence in Routines in sequence on the focus screen. Select routines in the order you want, set each step’s duration, and use Move up to adjust the order before saving.
Do one step at a time
Start in order opens the first step available today. Vacation days, unscheduled dates, and routines marked Skip today are passed over. Confirm completion when you finish a step. A count-based step records one completion.
Continue to the next step
Choose Continue to the next step to proceed. If you did not perform a step, use Skip this step without recording. The next step never starts automatically.
Reminders and snoozing
Enable Rhythm reminders
Turn on Rhythm reminders under Rhythm settings (the gear at the top of Rhythm). If they are off, they turn on when you first save a reminder time for a routine. Allow notification permission for device alerts on web or mobile. Focus and break end alerts do not depend on this switch: the device running the timer alerts you the moment it ends, and the server sends a push only once if the timer is still running two minutes after the end. On web, browser alerts appear only when notification permission is already granted. Unless Continue automatically is on, an alert does not complete the timer for you; finish recording it yourself.
Save a time for each routine
In routine settings, choose a time under Reminder, below the goal, and save. You can also set it when you create a routine. Rhythm reminders must be on and the routine must have a time. Completed routines, skipped days, and vacation days are excluded from new routine reminders.
Handle it now or in ten minutes
Dismiss an inbox alert or snooze it for ten minutes. Eligible routines also offer Record once and Skip today. Snooze and dismiss actions on phone notifications open the app to handle the action.
Move one occurrence or take a break
- Move this occurrence: choose the original and destination dates within the next year. The destination must not already contain that routine.
- Rest for a period: set the first and last day. The range is excluded from scheduled occurrences and the review’s planned count.
- You can cancel a reservation while both dates are still current or future and no records exist. Even excluded records keep their history, so their schedules cannot be changed or canceled.
- End an active timer first. If a move conflicts with a repetition change or pausing the routine, follow the message to check the reservation and effective date.
For routines with scheduled dates, open Change this occurrence only from the routine’s ⋯ menu to adjust one occurrence or a rest period.
Weekly and monthly reviews
- An ongoing period is counted through today. With no planned goals, the view shows No plans instead of a completion percentage. Flexible weekly and monthly goals are not counted again for every day.
- Compare focus time with the previous period, and expand the routine breakdown to find goals you want to adjust.
- A period outside your plan’s statistics range shows a locked notice with View plans. Your raw records stay available.
- Write one thing you want to change next period and save your review. Weekly and monthly notes are stored separately for each period.
- Continue using your daily and monthly quick records below. Keep longer writing or meeting notes in a Wiki page or a memo.
Choose Weekly or Monthly in Records. Change the record date to see that period’s routine completions, focus time, active days, and focus time by project.
Quick access on each device
- Web: open Rhythm with Cmd or Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R while the tab is active.
- Desktop: while the app is running, the same shortcut works from other apps. Use the tray to start, pause, resume, or finish focus. Locking the app or signing out protects the session title and controls.
- Mobile: update to an app version that supports Rhythm widgets, then choose Tabple’s Rhythm widget from your home screen’s widget picker. Tap the widget to open Rhythm and record progress while signed in.
- Widgets may show the last synced state. Android shows the estimated end time and last update time. Open the app when you need the latest status.
- Focus-end alerts: web uses a browser alert (when permission is already granted) and the remaining time in the tab title, desktop uses a sound and an OS notification, and mobile uses a notification on that device. Streaks, history, and skip reasons follow the same rules in all three apps.
- Starting a new focus session requires an online connection. If you pause or finish an already-started timer while offline, check its pending-save notice and complete saving after reconnecting.