A daily routine app that resets itself
A morning routine is one thing with eight steps, not eight unrelated reminders. Nearer treats it that way. You build the list once, work through it a card at a time, and it comes back unchecked on the schedule you chose.
The short version
Routines are a list type in Nearer. Each card is one step, only one is on screen at a time, and checking it off brings the next forward. When the cycle ends the whole list resets, so tomorrow starts clean without you rebuilding anything.
Why a routine belongs outside your task list
Put your habits into the same list as your tasks and the list can never be finished. Something always regenerates for tomorrow, so the reward for clearing everything is a list that looks exactly as full as it did before. After a while you stop believing the list means anything.
Keeping them apart fixes both halves. Your task list can actually reach empty, and your routine gets a reset that matches how it really works, as a whole cycle rather than as items expiring one by one.
Resets you can choose per list
Daily
A morning routine or an evening wind-down. The whole list comes back tomorrow with every card unchecked.
Weekly, monthly, yearly
A Sunday review, a monthly admin sweep, an annual renewals check. Work that matters and is easy to forget between cycles.
On completion
The list resets the moment you finish it rather than on the calendar. Suits anything you repeat at an irregular rhythm, like a packing list or a gym circuit.
Never, or by hand
Leave it completed and reset it yourself when you are ready. Useful while a routine is still settling and you are changing the steps.
You can also reset any routine immediately from the list menu when plans change, without waiting for the cadence to come round.
One step at a time, on purpose
A routine you can see all of invites negotiation. You look at eight steps at six in the morning, decide which two can be skipped today, and the routine erodes a little. Showing one card removes that conversation, because the only question on screen is whether to do the thing in front of you.
A progress bar is available per list for the routines where seeing the shape of it helps, and stays off everywhere else. The same reasoning runs through why your to-do list feels overwhelming.
What it does not do
- · No reminders or notifications, so nothing prompts you to start.
- · No streak counters or scoring.
- · No sharing a routine with anyone else.
- · No charts or analytics beyond a plain activity history.
No credit card required.
Common questions
- How is this different from a habit tracker?
- Habit trackers are built around streaks, and they measure whether you did a thing. A routine list is built around doing it. Nearer shows you one step at a time and moves you to the next when you check it off, so the list carries you through the routine rather than grading you afterwards.
- Does Nearer count streaks?
- No streak counters. Every completion is logged to an activity history you can look back at, but nothing on screen tells you a run is at risk, because a broken streak is a poor reason to abandon a routine that was otherwise working.
- Can I have more than one routine?
- Yes. Routines are lists, and you can have as many as you like on any plan. A morning list, an evening list and a Sunday review are three separate lists with three separate reset schedules.
- Does it send reminders?
- No notifications of any kind. Nearer assumes you open it when you sit down rather than interrupting you, which suits a routine you already intend to run and does not suit being reminded from scratch.
- Can I time a routine?
- Yes. A timer is a per-list toggle with a duration you set, and it stays out of the way on lists that do not need it. It is deliberately per session, so only the duration is remembered.
- Is there a free version?
- No free tier. Every account gets a 7-day trial of the whole app with no card, then $49.99 per year, or $5.99 per month, which covers routines, to-do lists and flashcards together.