How to use it
List the steps in the order you do them and give each one the time it actually takes, not the time you wish it took. Press Start and the timer runs the first step, chimes, and moves to the next without you touching anything. The step you are on is the large text, the one after it sits underneath, and the line under the bar tells you which step you are on and how much of the routine is left.
Putting a visible timer on each step of a morning or a transition is a standard executive-function support, and it is one of the more common recommendations for children and adults with ADHD as well as in general parenting advice for getting out of the door. The reason it helps is not motivation. It moves the work of tracking time out of your head and onto something you can look at, and it makes a vague block like "get ready" into a series of small commitments that each have an end.
Keep the steps short and concrete. "Shower" and "pack bag" work because you can tell at a glance whether you are on schedule. "Get organised" does not, because there is no moment where it is obviously finished. Five to eight steps is usually plenty. If a step regularly overruns, give it more time rather than treating the overrun as a personal failure: a routine that lies about how long things take stops being useful within a week.
The countdown is anchored to the system clock rather than to a ticking counter, so it stays honest if the tab goes to the background or the phone sleeps for a moment. Pausing stores your position and rebuilds the schedule when you resume. Routines are saved in this browser only, so a copy of the text from the export box is the way to move one to another device or hand it to someone else.