“You never told me”
What isn't written down doesn't exist, and what gets said in passing in the kitchen is forgotten before it reaches the living room.
Chores
So it isn't always the same person carrying it
The problem with household chores is almost never the work itself: it's the load of having to remember, share out and remind everyone else. That part is invisible, doesn't get shared, and is more exhausting than the washing-up.
What happens without it
The rota that breaks in week three
Paper rotas work until somebody skips one. With nothing to put them back on their own, they get abandoned.
The mental load of dividing it up
Even when the work is shared, deciding what's due and when usually lands on one person. That's work too.
How it gets sorted
Rotas that turn on their own
Set up once with how often they come round —every week, every other, on Mondays— and they appear on their own in the right person's name. Nobody has to divide anything up again.
Everyone sees their own
A side rail with what's due today, in three days and this week, on every screen. You tick it off from there: making people navigate to the module to cross off one line is the friction that stops them using it.
With a date and a name, or it isn't a chore
A list with nobody on it is a list of good intentions. Here each one has a person and a day, and that's what makes it possible to remind anyone.
And the alert reaches you wherever you are
In the app's bell and, if you turn it on, as a phone notification. Never one per thing: whatever isn't urgent gets grouped into one morning summary.
An ordinary week
- MondayThe bins appear on their own in this week's person's name. Nobody had to decide it.
- TuesdayTicked off from a phone, in the side rail, without going into anything.
- ThursdaySomebody adds “call the plumber” for Friday and puts whoever's home on it.
- SundayThe rota turns: next week it's someone else's, and it'll appear on its own.
Questions
- How do rotas get shared between several people?
- You create the recurring chore and choose who it rotates between. Each occurrence is generated as a real, separate chore with its own person and date, so it can be completed, reassigned or skipped for one week without breaking the rest.
- Does it work for a couple, not just a flat of four?
- Yes, and it's one of the cases where it shows most: the uneven split of the mental load is exactly what writing chores down —with a name and a date— makes visible.
- And for children?
- Everyone in the home has their own account and sees their own. You can put chores in their name and they'll see them on their screen like anyone else in the house.
- Is it going to bombard me with notifications?
- No. The bell records everything that happens, but by email only one summary a day goes out, and if there's nothing to say nothing is sent. A daily empty summary trains people to ignore it.
Start free, no card
Setting up a home takes under a minute, and you decide later whether you need anything more.