For grown-ups

How to use it

  • Pick a when… (a trigger, e.g. "I get home from school").
  • Add steps from the list, reorder them with ↑ ↓, and remove any with ×.
  • The line at the top reads your flow back in plain language, so you can check the order makes sense.
  • Each step is tagged by who does it: the phone does some (lights, Do-Not-Disturb, a playlist, the weather), and for the rest it can only remind you. The second read-back line splits them: “Your phone will …; it will remind you to …”.

Why design a flow

"When X, do these steps, in this order" is the core of computational thinking — a trigger, a sequence, and the discipline of getting the order right — expressed in plain language before any code. Designing a real routine (a wind-down, a get-ready) is a friendly on-ramp to that idea. We claim no habit outcome; it's a thinking tool.

Running it for real

FlowDojo here designs and reads the flow. To make a device actually run a routine like this, use its own automation tool: on an iPhone, the Shortcuts app can run one. The thinking (trigger → ordered steps) is the same.

No pressure, no counting

No score, no streak, no notifications. The flow is yours to design and re-order. Everything is on this device only.

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