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Create your first routine

How do I add what I take?

+ › New routine: give Keel a name and a time — everything else is optional — and its doses appear on Today and the calendar.

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Written for Keel 1.0.0 · build 1Content 2026.09.14 · 2026.09.16-batch1Screens from build 1 (4cbadaa) and working tree 7e41269 (NOT a candidate)

Where to start

+ › New routine. The form is titled New Routine, with Cancel and Save; new routines start timed at 9:00 AM.

You’ll need
  • A name and a time — "A name and a time is all that’s required."

Steps

  1. Tap +, then New routine.
    The create menu with Manage routines, New program, the highlighted New routine card, and two rows marked requires Keel Pro.
    The create menu behind the + button: New routine is the primary card; Manage routines lists what you already track.
    1. New routine
    2. Manage routines
    3. Pro-locked rows
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  2. Optional: tap a Quick start chip — Daily supplement, Daily peptide, Weekly injection, 2× week injection, Daily medication. A chip sets category, administration and cadence only; never a dose or a substance.
  3. Under What you take, type the Name; pick a Category (Peptide, TRT / Hormone, Medication / Ancillary, Supplement, Other, Custom) and an Administration (Injectable, Oral, Topical, Nasal, Liquid, Custom).
    The New Routine form with Quick start chips, an empty Name field, Category and Administration pickers, and the Repeats picker.
    A new routine: the Quick start chips set the shape; you fill in the name, category, administration and how often.
    1. Quick start chips
    2. Name
    3. Category / Administration
    4. Repeats
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  4. Under How often, set Repeats: Daily, Every other day, Every 3 days, Weekly on days, Times per week, or Every N days. Weekly shows a weekday row; the last two show a stepper.
  5. Under At what time, keep Time 1 or change it, Add another time, or turn on Any time of day.
  6. Under Duration, set Starts; turn on Ends on a date if it ends. Optional: type the Dose as you record it — an amount and a unit; the footer says it is kept "without interpretation". Under Reminders, keep Remind me on if you want notifications.
  7. Tap Save. More options (planned changes, late-dose behaviour, injection-site rotation, inventory) can wait.
    A sheet titled Routines listing one row, Vitamin D3, with its daily 8:00 AM schedule and 5000 IU dose, above a footer reading Everything here is what you entered — Keel never suggests doses or schedules.
    After Save the routine is listed here; tap it for details and Edit, or swipe for Pause and Delete.
    1. Routines title
    2. the routine row
    3. footer "Everything here is what you entered…"
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What changes

The routine’s doses appear on Today and the calendar from its start date, and the routine is listed under + › Manage routines on the Routines sheet, where a swipe offers Pause and Delete and a tap opens its detail with an Edit button.

Where: Today, the Calendar, and + › Manage routines

If it looks different

Can’t save yet?
"Give the routine a name." — the name is empty. "Add at least one time of day, or switch to any time of day." — no time. "The end date must be after the start date."
The form opens fully, titled Edit Routine?
You are editing an existing routine; saving changes only pending doses that no longer fit the plan; logged, skipped, snoozed, moved, late and missed doses are never rewritten.
Looking for If I log late?
It is under More options — see the fixed-or-rolling guide.

The form records what you take and when, as you enter it; Quick start sets only a shape, and the dose is kept without interpretation.