
RoutineArc: Schedule Planner
Private Tasks & Focus Timer
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What's New in RoutineArc
2.5
October 16, 2026
NEW IN 2.5 Your tasks, events and notes can now be on each of your devices, through your own iCloud. RoutineArc still has no account and no server of its own. SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES • Your tasks and their steps, events, notes, habits, saved places, focus time and what RoutineArc has learned can be the same on each of your devices, kept in your own private iCloud. • It is off until you turn it on: in More > Settings > System > Sync Across Devices, turn on "Sync with iCloud" on each device. It needs iCloud signed in, and comes with monthly, yearly and the Unlimited lifetime unlock, not with Essentials. • Changes go across when you open RoutineArc, when you come back to it, and shortly after you change something. While it is open, it also looks for changes from your other devices about every ten seconds, and iCloud usually tells it at once when another device sends one. The card says when this device last synced. • Handoff: with sync on, the task, event or note you have open on one device can be opened on another nearby. On iPhone it appears in the App Switcher, and on iPad in the Dock. • If two devices change the same item, the later change is kept. A delete wins over an edit to the same item, even a later one. • With iCloud sync on, settings, task photos and business rhythm duties stay on the device where you made them. • To use the same business rhythm and work schedule on every device, turn on "Sync business rhythm and work schedule" in the same card. KEEPING WHAT YOU HAVE • Before the first sync on a device, and before a sync that replaces a lot, RoutineArc saves a copy of what is on that device in Backup & Restore. • Restoring a backup or importing data first backs up what you had on this device, and tells you which backup that is. If it cannot, nothing is replaced. • On a device that syncs, restoring a backup replaces what your other devices have too, as each of them syncs. • On a device that syncs, clearing focus history erases it on your other devices too. BUSINESS RHYTHMS • You can now choose more than one business rhythm in More > Settings > Planner > Business Rhythm, and the plan and the day's tasks follow each one you choose. • "Only on days I work" is on by default: with a work schedule, a rhythm's tasks show only on days that have a shift, and what you did not finish on your last shift comes back on your next one. Turn it off to see them every day. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • When a capture needs an unlock, the words you typed or spoke are kept on Today under "Not saved yet". Add them once you unlock, or discard them. • After a purchase, RoutineArc says what is now unlocked, and how many kept captures are waiting. • Plan my day lists, at the top of the Day Plan, what it could not keep, such as a task that would finish after it is due. • Focus you start on the Focus tab without a task is now recorded, and counts in Insights' total and week. • On iPhone, if you turn on Live Activity, the focus countdown of a Pomodoro, a Timer or Focus Mode shows on the Lock Screen and, where the iPhone has one, in the Dynamic Island. • A large photo you add to a task is saved at 2048 pixels on its longer side, so it takes less room. Photos already added are unchanged. LARGER SCREENS • In a wide window, such as on a Mac or a 13-inch iPad in landscape, the tabs move to a sidebar. • On a large screen, Today and More use two columns, Focus puts its timer beside its settings, the Tasks list is wider, and the Calendar's day and week use more of the width.
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