What is Spiritual Routine, and how do I set it up?

From version 1.47.0, Spiritual Routine helps you keep up the personal spiritual activities that sit beside your ministry, and gives you a reason to open WitnessWork each day. You check them off on a Routine card on Home, and each one gets its own heat map so you can see how steady you've been. It's free, works on iOS and Android, and is completely optional.

To set it up, tap Set up on the Spiritual Routine card that appears on Home, or open Settings → Spiritual Routine. Choose which activities to include, how you read the Bible, your meeting days, and your family worship evening. A daily reminder is available but stays off unless you turn it on. If you tap Not now on the Home card, it goes away; you can set it up later in Settings.

What you can check off:

• Bible reading: once a day. Read today is the default; you can also follow a reading plan (see the question about reading plans).

• Personal study: any day you study. By default the card asks for it until you've studied once that week. You can change the goal to a number of times a week, or to chosen days. Every day you study counts, even beyond your goal, once per day.

• Midweek meeting prep and Weekend meeting prep: once each week (Monday to Sunday). Each shows on Home from two days before that meeting through the meeting day. If you haven't set your meeting days, both show all week until you check them.

• Family worship: once a week, on the evening you choose, or any day if you don't choose one. If you aren't with family, you can call it Personal worship evening instead.

Checking off: tap an item on the Routine card. When everything for today is done, the card shrinks to a single All done today line. Tap the card to open the Spiritual Routine screen, with a heat map for each activity. There you can also check off a day you forgot, back to the start of last week. Tap a checked day again to undo it.

There are no streaks in Spiritual Routine, and missing a day never counts against you. The heat maps simply show the days you checked.

To hide the card, edit your Home screen and remove Spiritual Routine, or turn the whole feature off in Settings → Spiritual Routine. Turning an activity or the feature off keeps everything you checked, and it comes back as it was when you turn it on again.

If an activity doesn't show on Home when you expect it, check its settings in Settings → Spiritual Routine: weekly activities only show on their days, and personal study hides once you've met your goal for the week. If something still looks wrong, use Still need help? below this answer to email support or report a bug.