Use Cases

There's a gap between your notes app and your task manager. Notes remember things. Tasks tell you what to do. Neither one walks you through anything.

That's where Patter sits.

A routine is a sequence with context. Each step has a name and, if you need it, a note — what to do, what to check, what to watch out for. When you run it, you see one step at a time. Just this, then the next one.

Steps can link to other steps. Put a @ and a step number in a note to create a tap-to-jump link — back to repeat a section, forward to skip one. One routine can handle several variations of the same process without duplicating it.

What follows are ways people use Patter. Each one includes an example routine you can add directly from Settings → Templates inside Patter, or copy and paste into your own.