Setup assistant

A new household can feel like an empty house. The setup assistant fills in the parts most homes need, so you start with a real schedule instead of a blank page.

It is offered right after you create a household, as a Setup card on Home (with Start and Hide), and any time under People, Household.

Do you own or rent? House or apartment? A yard, a pool, cars, pets? Kids, and how old? That is all it asks.

• Home maintenance: common jobs for a home like yours, each with a sensible interval, and first dates spread over the coming months so they do not all land in one week. It never guesses what a job will cost.
• Starter chores: set up in a rotation, with kid-friendly chores for the kids.
• Papers to find and store: a checklist of documents worth keeping in the vault.
• Checklists: templates for packing, cleaning, moving and more.
• An emergency plan: a checklist to get the Emergency card and your plan ready.

Everything starts with sensible defaults. Untick what does not fit your home, then add the rest in one go.

Every item it adds is an ordinary task, chore, job or checklist, so you can edit, move or delete it like any other. You can run the assistant again later, and Hide on the Home card puts it away.

The setup assistant needs a connection, because it saves everything at once.

• You can run it more than once, for example after you get a pet or buy a car.
• First due dates are spread out on purpose, so the first month is not a pile of jobs.
• Chores are only suggested for people who are in the household, and kids get kid-friendly ones.

Ask “Help me set up home maintenance” and the Brain points you to the setup assistant.

The setup assistant is on every plan. Home maintenance itself is on Household and Household+.