Tell the house

Tell the house turns a plain sentence into a plan. The Brain answers questions about the week and about your records. Both live in the Brain, above the six layers. For everything else the Brain can answer, see Asking the Brain.

Type a sentence the way you would text it:

We’re going to the beach Saturday. John needs to fill up the car and Sarah needs to buy sunscreen.

Kinnomy drafts a plan for you to review:

• The event: a beach trip on Saturday.
• A task for each person: John fills up the car, Sarah buys sunscreen.
• Shopping items: sunscreen, plus water and snacks, marked as suggestions.
• Expected costs: parking and gas, with amounts to fill in.
• A thread for the trip, so the conversation stays with the plan.

Nothing is saved until you press Save. You can try the real parser on the Kinnomy Brain page.

• When: today, tonight, tomorrow, a weekday like “Saturday” or “next Tuesday”, “this weekend”, dates like 10/12 or Oct 12, and times like 6pm, 3:30pm or “at 3”.
• Who: the names of people in your household, in phrases like “John needs to”, “Maya will” or “remind Sarah to”.
• What to buy: “buy”, “get”, “pick up”, “we need” and “we’re out of”.
• Costs: amounts like “$60 for gas”.
• Common plans: a beach day, camping, a picnic, a road trip, a party, a barbecue, a hike, the zoo, a theme park and more. These add sensible suggestions, like sunscreen for the beach.

If you name someone who is not in the household yet, the task is saved without a person and the plan tells you so. Day trips without a time get a 10:00 AM start, which you can change.

Tell the house works without AI, using the built-in parser. When AI is switched on for your household, it understands more kinds of sentences, and you can also ask the Brain for a plan, like “plan a birthday party for Theo on Oct 12 under $300”. AI answers use Brain credits from your plan’s monthly allowance: 100 on Household and 500 on Household+.

Ask “What’s going on this week?” and get the weekly brief:

• what is on the calendar each day,
• bills due, with the total,
• tasks that are overdue, upcoming and assigned to you,
• potential conflicts,
• and anything worth knowing, like a bill that jumped.

The brief is built in and costs nothing to run.

Ask a plain question, like “when was the AC serviced?”, “who is our plumber?” or “what’s the fridge model?”, and get the answer from your own records, with the record linked. Synonyms are built in: AC, HVAC and air conditioner find the same thing, and so do fridge and refrigerator.

• Use first names that match the people in your household.
• Put the day in the sentence: “on Friday”, “tomorrow at 6”.
• One plan per message works best.