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Free daily routine template you can actually stick to

By the Taskling team14 November 20265 min read

A daily routine works best as a few anchors, not an hour by hour script. Use three or four short anchors for morning, midday and evening, and keep a smaller version for days when energy is low.

Anchors, not a script

Routines fail when they try to plan every minute. Anchors are short, repeatable moments that hold the day together, with free space in between.

The template

Morning anchor (15 to 20 minutes)

Midday anchor (10 minutes)

Afternoon anchor (5 minutes)

Evening anchor (20 minutes)

The low energy version

  1. Drink water
  2. Eat something
  3. Do one small task
  4. Go to bed at a reasonable time

That counts. A routine you keep on hard days is worth more than a perfect one you drop.

Use it in Taskling

Taskling includes built in morning, evening and wind down routines. Adjust them to match this template and set them to repeat, so they appear every day with a progress bar.

More: morning routine checklist, after work routine.