Usually, no. If you take several supplements at the same meal, the order you swallow them in is rarely what matters. Taking them regularly matters more, and so does giving the fat-soluble ones some food. A few minerals are worth spacing apart, which is covered below.
Consistency beats sequence
People start asking this once they're taking more than one or two things. Fish oil before the multivitamin? Magnesium before vitamin D? If you've read conflicting advice online, it's a fair question. But trying to perfect the order can become one more reason to skip the whole routine, so keep it simple.
Think about what actually breaks a supplement habit. It's almost never that someone took the fish oil after the multivitamin. It's that the routine felt fussy, or a bottle ran out and nobody replaced it, or a rushed morning meant nothing got taken. Anything that adds friction, including worrying about the "correct" sequence, makes the habit more fragile. A plain pattern you barely think about tends to last for months. A precise order that needs your attention every day tends not to.
It helps to keep two questions apart: "with food or without?" and "this order or that order?" The first one can matter for some fat-soluble vitamins. The second is about whether one capsule goes down a second before another. Once you've sorted out food, the rest is mostly about not missing days.
The few worth spacing
Some minerals, like calcium and iron, can compete for absorption in large amounts, so a few people take those a couple of hours apart. If your list is long, a pharmacist can tell you which items, if any, are worth separating.
This mostly comes up when someone takes a fairly full mineral supplement alongside iron, or is on a doctor-recommended iron course while also taking a multivitamin that contains calcium. If you take one daily multivitamin, this isn't something to lose sleep over. It matters more for larger standalone doses of specific minerals. When you're unsure, have a pharmacist look at your actual list, because the answer depends on the exact products and amounts.
A reminder app makes spacing easy. Pillog lets you set separate times, check each one off from the notification, and see your month as a card, all on your phone with no account.
Building a routine you'll actually keep
Instead of chasing a perfect sequence, tie your supplements to something you already do every day: brushing your teeth, making coffee, sitting down to breakfast. A new habit attached to an old one sticks better than one you have to remember from scratch.
Lists tend to grow. Maybe you started with a multivitamin, then added something for sleep, then a mineral your doctor suggested. Every so often, look at the whole set together instead of one bottle at a time. That's also a good moment to bring the full list to a pharmacist or doctor, who can see the overall picture in a way separate labels can't show you.
If the real problem is not remembering whether you already took something today, that's a tracking issue, not an ordering issue. Logging each dose as you take it, even loosely, gets rid of the nagging "did I already take that?" And that does far more for consistency than getting the sequence exactly right.