In short: go to Routines in the web app, press New routine and fill in the four steps: Name & time, Who & when, Activities and Details. Once the first three are done, press Create routine.
Before you start
Routines are easiest to build in the web app, because you have the whole routine and a preview in front of you on one screen. If you haven't added your family yet, do that first — then you can choose who the routine is for straight away.
Quick start: template or AI
At the top of a new routine you'll find Quick start. Pick one of the five templates — Good morning, School, Evening routine, Homework and Sport — or choose Describe with AI, write the routine in your own words, e.g. “Morning routine for a 10-year-old. School at 08:30. Takes 45 min to get ready.”, and press Make a suggestion.
The template or suggestion fills in the icon, category, start time and activities. The name and days are only filled in if you haven't chosen them yourself. You can change everything afterwards — and if you'd rather start from scratch, press Hide.
Step by step
- Create a new routine
Log in at webapp.morgenrutine.dk, choose Routines in the menu and press New routine.
- Name & time
Give the routine a name the family recognises — “School morning”, “Good night” or “Afternoon” (up to 50 characters) — and choose a start time. Pick an icon and a category too; the category sets the routine's colour throughout the app.
- Who & when
Tap the family members who follow the routine. Then choose the days for Even weeks and Odd weeks — the shortcuts Weekdays, Weekend and All make it quick, and Same as even weeks copies the days across. The “This week” label shows which row applies right now.
- Activities
Press Add activity and type the name. Enter gives you a new row straight away. Adjust the duration with − and + (five minutes at a time), and drag the handle to change the order — the times move automatically.
- Details (optional)
Add a location and description, and mark whether it's the First routine of the day or the Last routine of the day — this is used for the sleep overview, and notifications wait until the day starts instead of arriving at night (see Turn on notifications). Under More settings you choose whether the routine is shown in the weekly plan and sends a notification.
- Create routine
The Create routine button at the bottom becomes active once the first three steps are done. Until then, the bar shows what's missing. The routine then appears automatically on the chosen days.
How the end time is calculated
If the routine has activities, the end time is the start time plus the total duration of the activities — it shows as “calculated from activities” and can't be set by hand. If you want some slack at the end, add an activity for it, e.g. “Free play”.
Routines without activities — such as School or Work — can have an end time you set yourself. The Activities step is then optional.
More fields on an activity
The icon is suggested from the activity's name; click the icon if you want to pick a different one. The More button (…) on each row opens extra fields:
- Description — help for the child, shown in Doing.
- Repeats — how many times the activity should be done (1–5). Shown as hearts in Doing.
- Playtime — time for free play if the routine is finished early.
- Note in planning — the activity gets a note field that is filled in for each day in planning.
A small green dot on the button shows that one of the fields is filled in.
Edit or delete a routine
Click the routine in the list — it opens on the same page you created it on. Change what you want and press Save changes. The changes apply to the coming days, and whatever has already been ticked off today is kept. If you switch to another routine with unsaved changes, the web app asks first.
PDF gives you a printout of the routine. Delete takes two presses: the first turns the button red with the text Confirm delete.
What it looks like on iOS
On the day, the iOS app shows the routine under Planning, and Doing shows the next routine with a countdown. The kids check off as they go, and progress is recorded automatically in both places.
Start with one routine. Once it sticks, build the next one. Three routines that get used beat eight that get ignored.
Good advice
- Fewer steps are better. Five to seven activities is enough. Any more and the routine gets hard for a child to follow.
- Use the names your child uses. “Bag” rather than “Prepare school bag”.
- Leave some slack. One press on + adds five minutes — so the routine holds up on a bad morning too.
- Adjust after a week. See where things get tight and move the times. The routine is a template, not a contract.
If the routine doesn't show up
Check these things in order:
- Is the right family member chosen under Who & when?
- Is the day marked — in both even and odd weeks, if the routine should run every week?
- Is the routine saved? The bar at the bottom should say “All changes saved”.
- Are you logged in to the same account and the same family on the web and on iOS?
If all of that is right and the routine is still missing, write to us — include the routine's name and the day it's missing.