How to keep up your routine while traveling

Before you leave: plan for a connection

One thing to know up front: EasyRoutine has no offline mode. Your routines and logs live in your account on the server, so the app needs internet, from Wi-Fi or mobile data, to show and log anything. Offline, it shows a notice until you are connected again.

Two things soften that on a trip:

• Reminders still arrive offline. They are scheduled on your phone, so the vitamin reminder still fires in airplane mode.
• You can log afterwards. Logs can be added for any earlier day and time. Took the vitamin on the plane? Log it at the hotel with the time you took it.

So a day without signal does not have to leave a hole in your history, or in your streak, as long as you fill it in honestly.

Use it on another phone or tablet

Taking a work phone, a spare, or an iPad? Sign in with the same account, using the same method you always use: Sign in with Apple (iPhone and iPad), Sign in with Google, or an email code. Your routines, activities and history appear on that device, and anything you log there shows up on your own phone too. How sign-in and sync work.

Reminders are scheduled on each signed-in device separately. If you do not want the same reminder on two devices, sign out of the one you are not using; your data stays in your account.

Logging away from your usual setup

Logging from the calendar works anywhere: tap a faded planned entry and save it, or tap + Log on the day and tick one or several activities at once.

The photo scan also works on the road if your activities have photos: point the camera at your sunscreen and EasyRoutine logs the matching activity. It matches against your own activities only. Travel-size bottles may look different from the ones at home, so if the scan does not find a match, it offers a manual pick, or you can log it from the calendar. How the photo scan works.

A note on a log helps later, like "hotel gym, 30 min", "took it at the airport" or "skipped, long drive", and a red, amber or green flag marks how it went. Notes do not show on the calendar itself, but the log sheet shows your last few notes for that activity when you log it again. Logging, notes, flags and the scan are all free.

Keeping the streak alive

Your Day streak counts days in a row with at least one log of any activity. On a hectic travel day, logging just the vitamin keeps it going even if the workout does not happen. And when you get home, the month view shows exactly which parts of the routine survived the trip. If more slipped than you hoped, getting back into routine after a break helps with the restart, and a trip at the turn of the year is a natural moment for the New Year's resolution tracker.

Back home and wondering when you last flossed or took the vitamin? Tap that activity's tile at the top of the calendar: the calendar shows only that activity, so the last tile is the last time. Tap it again to see everything.

Adjust the schedule around the trip

There is no pause button for a schedule, but there are a few ways to fit it around travel dates. Editing schedules is part of Premium.

• Leave it as it is. Planned entries you do not log show as faded on the calendar. If you are keeping most of the routine going anyway, this is the simplest option.
• Split the schedule around the dates. Give the workout slot an end date on the day before you leave, and add a second slot that starts the day you are back. Each activity can have up to four recurring slots, each with its own From and Until dates.
• Add one-off plans for the trip. Single-day plans put an activity on a specific date and time, such as a hotel gym session on Wednesday at 7:00.
• Archive what stays at home. An activity you will not do at all, like the weekly yoga class, can be archived. That hides it and stops its reminders, but keeps its logs on the calendar. Archiving does not need Premium; reactivate it when you are back.

Each timed slot can also carry a reminder, on time or 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes before. Give the hotel gym session on Wednesday at 7:00 a reminder 15 minutes before, and it fires like any other. Scheduling and reminders are part of Premium.

More about scheduling.

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