> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.voyager.so/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Routines and activity
> Run a prompt on a schedule with routines, and see every generation, render and download from the last week on the Activity page.
**Routines** run a prompt for you on a schedule: a nightly render of the current cut, a Monday roundup of new footage, a reminder to review drafts. The **Activity** page shows everything Voyager made, rendered or downloaded across all your chats in the last 7 days.
## Create a routine
The quickest way is to ask in any chat: "Every Monday at 9 AM, look through this project's newest footage and suggest a rough cut." The agent sets it up for you.
To set one up yourself:
**1. Open Routines**
Press ⌘ K (Ctrl K) and choose **Open routines**. Then click **New routine**.
**2. Say what it does**
Give it a **Name** and write the **Prompt**, just as you would in a chat.
**3. Choose when**
Under **When**, choose **Once** and a date and time, or **Schedule** with a preset such as **Every weekday at 9:00 AM** or **Every hour**, or **Custom time…** and **Custom interval…**. **Next runs** shows when it will run.
**4. Choose where results go**
Pick a **Project**. Under **Results go to**, keep **New conversation each run (recommended)**, or choose **Continue a conversation**. Pick a **Model**.
**5. Save it**
Click **Create routine**.
> [!WARNING]
>
> **Routines run only while Voyager is running.** If Voyager is closed or your computer is asleep at the scheduled time, that run is missed. When Voyager starts again, each routine catches up once if a run was missed in the last few hours. On a Mac, closing the window keeps Voyager running in the Dock; quitting stops routines. On Windows and Linux, closing the last window quits Voyager, so minimize it instead.
Each run can use credits, just like the same request in a chat. If a run needs your approval, it waits in its conversation; if nobody answers in time, it stops as **Timed out**. To let runs finish unattended, change the project's permissions as described in [Approvals and spending](https://docs.voyager.so/guides/approvals-and-spending.md).
## Manage routines
The Routines page lists each routine with its next run and its last result. Filter by project, or by **Active**, **Paused** and **Needs attention**.
* Use the switch to turn a routine on or off.
* **Run now** runs it straight away.
* Under **More actions**: **Edit**, **History**, **Open last conversation** and **Delete routine**.
**History** shows every run, including missed and skipped ones and why. A routine pauses itself after 3 failed runs in a row, or when its conversation or project is gone. The page says why; fix the cause and turn it back on.
A project's menu in the sidebar shows **Scheduled tasks** when the project has routines, and opens them filtered to that project.
## Check the Activity page
The **Activity** tray shows work that's running now. The **Activity** page keeps the last 7 days, from every chat. Clearing the tray never removes anything here.
To open it, click **View all activity** in the tray, choose **View → Activity** in the menu bar, or press ⌘ ⌥ A (Ctrl Alt A).
Search titles and prompts, or filter by:
* **Kind**: **Generations**, **Flow runs**, **Renders & exports**, **Downloads** and **Setup downloads**.
* **State**: **Running and queued**, **Needs you**, **Failed or unknown**, **Stopped** and **Finished**.
* **Project** and **Conversation**.
From a row you can open the result, **Stop** work that's running, or **Retry** something that failed. Retry shows its cost first.
## Common problems
> [accordion] A routine says Missed
>
> Voyager wasn't running, or your computer was asleep, at the scheduled time. Keep Voyager open (minimized is fine) at the times your routines run.
> [accordion] A routine is Paused after 3 failed runs
>
> Open **History** to see the error, for example a model that isn't available. Fix it, then turn the routine back on.
> [accordion] Something I made isn't on the Activity page
>
> The page keeps 7 days. Older results are still in their chat and in your project's files.
## Related
* [Chats and projects](https://docs.voyager.so/guides/chats-and-projects.md)
* [Files and previews](https://docs.voyager.so/guides/files-and-previews.md)
* [Computers, phones and cloud GPUs](https://docs.voyager.so/guides/computers-and-cloud-gpus.md)
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