As observed by the UN health agency’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Use (https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059542) and UK's Mental Health Organisation (https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/looking-after-your-mental-health-during-coronavirus-outbreak), during and after all of this corona situation, people's mental health can be damaged if measures are not taken. Being isolated from everyone else can really disconnect you and disturb your perception of reality, making you feel anxiety all the time about the crisis and paralyze your activities. The best way to manage that, as pointed by those organisations and by empiric research, is to establish a daily routine with productive activities to keep you with a good rhythm to pass through that. Our app idea, named as Q.routine (the sense of "kill"routine by doing all your tasks and a play with how it sounds and quarantine), has the exact goal described as the best option to deal with that moment. By inspiring, motivating and organizing the user's weekly and daily schedule, we want to make him, while connecting with his friends, stay dinamic, doing tasks that will bring value to his period and make him feel better with that. The first step is to give him plenty of options about what he can do (E.g. Read a book, Run, Call his grandfather/grandmother), so even if he doesn't know yet what he wants to accomplish, he can get inspired and choose between them. After setting all the week tasks and saying what is his window time, the app will arrange his schedule, delivering a ready agenda to be followed and allowing him to rearrange the way he prefers. The last step, if he wants to, is to connect with his friends, so he can keep in touch with what they are doing and get both inspired and motivated by them. Imagine this setup was done on Sunday, on Monday morning, he will get a notification to have a look at the day schedule and have the opportunity to think about it and rearrange the tasks if he wants. During the day, he will receive some notifications remembering him the next tasks and in the night, he can tell to the app what tasks he couldn't make and reschedule them to the next days. When one task is done, besides getting rewarded with medals and points (gamification), he has the possibility to share this with his friends in our internal feed and this becomes a post where everyone in his network can comment and discuss about it (E.g. He just read Harry Potter and posted it, a friend of his who was considering reading Harry Potter can comment on that). Also, at any moment there is the possibility to challenge one of his friends to execute some task and start a healthy and joyful competition (E.g. Who finishes the book first). By inspiring, motivating and organizing the schedule by that way described above, we hope to make the routine of people in self isolation a little bit better. Remember him that this period can be used for self improvement and try to get our user away from depression and anxiety thoughts, showing that life can still be good in this moment.

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