How do I set a routine after another medication?

Posted: 29 July 2026
Author: Chris Winfield-Blum
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Dose routines can fire at a fixed clock time or a set duration after another routine for the same member is logged. Choose After another medication when adding or editing a routine under Family.

Steps

  1. Open the member under Family and add or edit a medication routine.
  2. Choose schedule mode After another medication (instead of At a time).
  3. Select an anchor routine for the same member and enter the offset (for example, 30 minutes after).
  4. Save.

Until the anchor dose is logged, Today shows the dependent as waiting rather than due at a fixed time. Logging the anchor creates a shared stagger follow-up for the dependent medicine, measured from the real logged time (not the scheduled clock time). If the anchor is skipped or never logged for that occurrence, no follow-up is created.

Dependencies stay on the same member. A routine that is already relative cannot anchor another relative routine.

This is separate from Also stagger another medication on as-needed timers (for example spacing two fever liquids). For that flow, see How do I stagger another medication?

On the free plan, routine slots (together with enabled health readings) are capped—see Subscription — free plan limits. See also Where do I set routine times?

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