Use Cases

There's a gap between your notes and your task list. Notes remember things but don't guide you through them. Tasks tell you what to do but don't care about the order. Neither of them shows you one thing at a time and says: this, now, then the next one.

That's where Patter sits.

A routine is a sequence with context. Each step has a name and, if you want, a note — what to do, what to watch out for, what to check before moving on. When you run it, you see one step at a time. Nothing before, nothing after. Just this, and then the next one.

There's no timer. Patter doesn't care how long a step takes, because that's not the point. Some steps take five seconds. Some take twenty minutes. You decide when you're done with each one. That's the whole model.

Steps can also link to other steps. Put a @ and a number in a step's note to create a tap-to-jump link — back to repeat a section, or forward to skip one. One routine can serve several variations of the same process without being duplicated. Sections that don't apply today get skipped. The flow stays intact.

What follows are ten ways people use Patter. Each one includes example routines you can copy and paste straight into the app, or add directly from Settings → Templates inside Patter.