Home ready

The week your family actually has: the renewals that turn up without warning, the birthdays you meant to plan for, the animals, and the jobs the house needs before the season turns.

What it does today

• Everything with a date on it in one list: renewals, birthdays, the animals, and the jobs the house needs. One list because in a real week they all arrive as the same interruption.
• Anything can repeat, on any interval. Marking a repeating thing done rolls it forward rather than finishing it, and it rolls from the date it was due, so dealing with something late does not drag its schedule late forever.
• Each thing carries its own notice period, so a car registration can warn you a month out and a filter change a week out.
• People are recorded whether or not they ever sign in, because a four year old has a birthday and gets an allowance and is never going to have a login.
• Birthdays are worked out from the date of birth rather than stored as reminders, so they can never go stale, never need rolling over in January, and never drift from the person.
• Gifts: what you gave, what it cost and what you are thinking of next time. The reason anyone writes that down is the second Christmas, not the first.
• Pets, with a weight history, and their shots and vet visits sitting on the same list as everything else.
• Chores with an allowance, and a ledger of what is owed and what has been paid. A chore nobody is assigned to asks who did it before it is marked done, so the money is owed to a person rather than to nobody.

Why it is built this way

These look like five different apps and are deliberately one. A birthday, a vet visit and a tag renewal are completely different data answering exactly the same question: what is coming, and how long have I got.