Charge your devices
The phone, the tablet, the headphones and a power bank – and one socket behind the sofa. Charging your devices is really four decisions in a row about what goes first, and the pictures below put them in an order so nothing is left half empty.
♀Charge your devices
A child holds two devices connected by cables to a wall socket.
About this visual support
Three cables lie in a heap on the kitchen counter, and nothing shows which one belongs to what. In that second the step stops being an action and turns into planning: find the right cable, remember which gadget is emptiest, find a free socket, then do the whole thing again for the next device. That coordination is what stalls the evening, not the charging itself.
A visual schedule lowers the load by moving the order out of your head. One picture per device, in the order you tend to need them in the morning, means nobody has to hold the list in memory while their hands are busy. Your child can go back to the row and see what is already done without asking.
One tip that pays off straight away: tie a coloured band or a sticker around each cable in the same colour as its picture in the sequence. Choosing the cable becomes something you see rather than something you recall. Routined lets you build the whole evening sequence digitally with a tick for each device, and the app can be tried for 14 days at no cost.