Getting started

Recura has three building blocks. Everything else is arrangement.

• A task is a promise with a rhythm — “water the plants, every 11 days.”
• A routine is a named run of tasks with a time slot — “Morning, 7:00, 30 minutes.”
• A chain links tasks in order — “after fill dishwasher comes run it.”

1. Your space

Signing up creates a personal space — the container for everything you add. If you share a household, invite the other person from Settings → Members; they get their own view of the same space.

2. Add a few tasks

Start with five or six real ones. For each, the two decisions that matter:

• The rhythm. “Every N days” slides with you (do it late, the next one moves too). “Specific weekdays” is anchored to the calendar (Tuesday is Tuesday, regardless). Pick whichever matches how the task actually works — Rhythms & recurrence covers the difference in depth.
• The estimate. A rough minutes guess. Don’t overthink it — Recura compares estimates against measured timer runs later and suggests corrections.

You can also just type a sentence — “water plants every 11 days, indoor” — into the quick-describe field and let it fill the form.

3. Build your first routine

Create a routine (say “Morning, 7:00”) and add the tasks that belong to it. Order them the way you’d actually do them. If some steps strictly depend on others, chain them — see Routines & chains.

4. Run it

On the day, the Today screen shows the routine with a Start button. The timer walks you through one task at a time — no list, no choices, just the current step. Done, skip, next. That’s deliberate: you made the decisions when you built the routine; execution should be almost boring.

Starter packs

If a blank space feels like a cold start, apply a starter pack (offered on the empty state, and under Settings) — pre-built task sets you can prune. The lawn-care pack is also a worked example of the advanced recurrence shapes: seasonal mowing, a fall-renovation chain, a 21-day watering run.