Routines

Routines define how your week is structured — the recurring time blocks that shape when different types of work happen. While the organisation layer answers "where does this live?" and planning answers "when does it happen?", routines answer "what kind of work belongs here?"

Two types of blocks

MONOid uses two types of time blocks on your week:

• Routine blocks — Recurring work sessions you design (e.g. Deep Work, Admin, Meetings). Tasks are assigned into these. They repeat weekly based on your template.
• Daily schedule items — Fixed life blocks (wake, sleep, meals, custom items like commute or exercise). These mark time that's unavailable for work — tasks cannot be assigned to them.

Both types appear on the Calendar and are managed from the Routines page (accessible via the sidebar).

How routines work

Templates and weekly patterns

When you create a routine block, you choose which days of the week it repeats on. This creates a weekly template — a recurring pattern that shows up on the Calendar each week.

For example, creating a "Deep Work" block on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00–11:00 creates three template entries that repeat every week.

Date-specific overrides

Sometimes a week doesn't follow the template. You can override a routine block for a specific date — change its time, name, or content — without affecting the template. The override applies to that date only; the template continues as normal on other weeks.

Overrides are created when you edit a template block on the Calendar for a specific day.

Task assignment

Tasks are assigned to routine blocks via drag-and-drop on the Calendar. Each task can be in one block at a time. Tasks within a block can be reordered by dragging.

Assigning tasks to blocks makes your plan schedulable and intentional — instead of a flat to-do list, you know what you're working on and when.

Visual conventions on the Calendar

• Solid blocks — Real routine blocks (edited or with tasks assigned). Fully interactive.
• Faint/outlined blocks — Template ghosts for time slots you haven't filled yet. Adding a task or editing the block creates a real block and replaces the ghost.
• Hatched blocks — Daily schedule items (wake/sleep bands, meals). Tasks cannot be assigned to these.

Related pages

• Routine Blocks — Creating and managing blocks
• Daily Schedule — Wake, sleep, meals, and custom schedule items
• Calendar — Where routine blocks appear and tasks are scheduled
• Tasks — How tasks connect to routine blocks