A routine is a note to your future self.
Recura is a habit system for systems thinkers. You design the routines on a good day — chained, ordered, assigned — and on the hard days you just follow the note. One step at a time, no decisions.
One shared space for the household your roommates the office a classroom the family a small business the household
Currently invite-only — sign-ups join a waitlist.
Chains are the point, not a power feature.
“After I fill the dishwasher, I run it. After it runs, I unload it.” That’s habit stacking — the most reliable way to make a behaviour automatic — and in Recura it’s the core data model, not a checklist trick. Finish a step and the next one unlocks; the graph editor lets you see and reshape the whole machine.
Design rich, execute boring
Planning mode has the full toolkit: recurrence engines, seasonal windows, bounded runs, dependency graphs. Execution mode is one step on a timer with zero decisions. Different states of you, different interfaces.
Rhythms, not due dates
“Every 11 days”, “Saturdays, April through October”, “daily for 21 days after overseeding”. Tasks carry cadences and roll with your actual life instead of piling up red badges.
Honest, never judgmental
Skips are recorded as observations, not failures. Heatmaps show what happened — including measured time from real timer runs — and the app never nags, shames, or cheerleads.
Built for shared spaces
A household, a flat of roommates, an office, a classroom — same model: per-person tasks with honest attribution. Your day shows your promises; when you cover for someone, the credit goes where it belongs.
The system keeps score of itself
Estimates recalibrate from what the timer measured. Cadences you set get compared with cadences you actually keep. Weekly reports state the drift; you decide what to do with it.
Catch-up without ceremony
Came back from a hard week? Triage the pile in one pass — mark what you actually did (backdated honestly), skip what's moot, and start today clean.
Who it's for
People who think in systems: you've read Atomic Habits and The Checklist Manifesto, you'd rather fix the loop than clear the inbox, and you want a tool that respects your intelligence on the worst day of your week — not just the best one.