Habits & health
Vitamin and medication schedule tied to meals and coffee
Habits that hang your daily vitamins or prescribed medication on cues you already have, plus a refill plan that starts ten days before you run out.
What’s inside
Refill before I run out· 4 items
Count how many days of supply are left
10 days before the the day your supply runs out
If it's less than you thought, move the next steps earlier.
Request the refill or a new prescription
7 days before the the day your supply runs out
- Pharmacy or prescriber contacted
- Any appointment needed is booked
Pick up the refill or confirm delivery
3 days before the the day your supply runs out
Start the new supply and note when it will run out
On the the day your supply runs out
- Old packaging recycled
- Next run-out date written down
- Refill plan applied again with the new date
Habits
Take my morning vitamins or medication
- When
- When I make my first coffee or tea
- Then
- Keep the organizer next to the kettle.
Every dayAt 08:00
Take my evening vitamins or medication
- When
- When I sit down for dinner
- Then
- Put the organizer on the table as I set it.
Every dayAt 19:00
Fill the pill organizer for the week
- When
- After Sunday breakfast
- Then
- Open the organizer and line up the boxes.
On Sun
This is not medical advice. The template names no medicines or doses on purpose. What you take, how much and when is between you and your prescriber or pharmacist. Follow their instructions, and ask them if anything here doesn’t fit.
Why it hangs on meals and coffee
A daily dose is easy to forget because it has no natural moment. Coffee and dinner do. Each habit names one of those moments as its When, and the Tiny first step puts the organizer where that moment happens. The time reminders are a backup for days the routine shifts.
The two dose habits are meant to allow zero missed days a week, so untick Allow one missed day a week when you add them and a gap stays visible. Nothing turns red: a missed day shows as a grey Not done. If your prescriber pauses something, use Skip so the streak isn’t touched.
Making it fit your schedule
- Take something only on certain days? Switch that habit to Some days.
- One dose a day? Delete the evening habit.
- The refill plan counts back from the day you run out: ten days to check, a week to order, three days to collect. Stretch those if your pharmacy needs longer.
An honest tip
Thendoo’s reminders only appear while Thendoo is open in a browser tab, and there is no phone app yet. For anything you must not miss, keep a phone alarm or a pill organizer as your main reminder and use Thendoo as the record. If you’re unsure whether you took a dose, ask your pharmacist what to do rather than guessing.