What's new
Everything that has changed, newest first.
- Version
- 0.16.0
- Commit
40ce113- Updated
0.16.0
Added
- Where to start cleaning a messy house, at `/where-to-start`. Not the whole house: pick the kitchen, the bathroom or the bedroom and do three things in it, in order — bag the obvious rubbish, clear one surface you can use, put the cleaning things away — each saying what done looks like. Stopping after any step counts, and "Stop here" says so. The ticks are a practice checklist for while the page is open: not saved, not marks and not a wall post. Print the room, or send a link that opens the same room with every box empty. Afterwards, one button starts a free list with the chore that keeps that room going already filled in — nothing goes on it until you press Add. Linked from the front page, the chore guides and the schedule.
- Arriving at your list from a "Put it on a list" link now says, before you sign in, which chore is waiting to be added and that nothing is added until you press Add.
0.15.0
Added
- Send somebody a copy of your routine. "Share a copy of my routine" on your list shows your live chores, none of them ticked; tick up to 30, preview exactly what the link will carry — the titles and how often, and nothing else: no dates, nothing you have ticked off, nothing from the wall, not your email or your name — and only then make the link. Anyone with it can read the titles and send it on, it does not change when your list does, and it cannot be switched off, because the chores are written into the link itself and are not kept anywhere on our side.
- Opening one, at `/routine`, shows the chores as a copy somebody shared. Tick the ones that fit your place and take them into a free list of your own: they wait in your browser while you sign in or make an account, are shown once more — anything already on your list greyed out — and go on only when you say so, each due from the day you add it. If one does not go in, it says why, and trying again adds only that one. A link that has been cut short says so and points you to the schedule instead.
0.14.0
Added
- A cleaning checklist for when guests are on their way, at `/guests`. Pick 15, 30 or 60 minutes: every plan starts with a bathroom they can use, somewhere to sit, one clear bit of worktop and the rubbish out of sight, and a longer plan goes further down the same list. The minutes are a budget to choose by, not a promise about how long your place takes, and the deep cleaning is left for another day. Ticks last only while the page is open; print the plan, or send a link that opens the same plan with every box empty. Underneath, a way to start a list so next time there is less to catch up on. Linked from the front page and the chore guides.
0.13.0
Added
- A sample list to try before making an account, at `/try`. It is the starter list a new account is offered, with how often each chore comes round; tick one and it answers the way a real tick does — something true about the job, or now and then a reason to stay standing up, and the first mark, labelled as the sample's. Undo a tick or start the sample again whenever you like. Nothing on it is saved or sent anywhere, and starting your own list starts a fresh, empty one. Linked from the front page.
0.12.0
Added
- A move-out cleaning checklist for handing a rented flat back, at `/move-out-cleaning-checklist`. Kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedrooms, then a final pass, each split into what every flat has and what only counts if the place has the appliance or surface it is for — which you can mark "Not in this flat", so the count is of the jobs that apply. It says first that the tenancy and the inventory, and an appliance's manual, come before it, and it promises nothing about a deposit or an inspection. Ticks stay in your browser; print it, or send the link to whoever you are leaving with. Underneath, a way to start a list for the next place.
0.11.0
Added
- A cleaning kit checklist for a first flat, at `/first-flat-cleaning-kit`. The handful of things that cover every weekly job, then the extras that are only worth buying if the place has what they are for — each one saying which jobs it is for and when something you already own will do, and every bit of safety or surface advice with the source it came from beside it. Tick "Already have it" as you go (the ticks stay in your browser), print it for the shop, or send the link to whoever is moving in with you. Underneath, the chores the kit is for, and a way to put them on a list.
0.10.0
Added
- A cleaning rota for a shared flat, to print or send to the house. At `/rota`, put in the names of whoever lives there, untick any chore your place does not have, and get who does what for the next four to eight weeks — every chore passed round in turn, and nobody handed more than one chore more than anybody else. Weeks are numbered, not dated, so it starts whichever Monday you like. "Print it" gives one landscape page, and "Send to the house" passes on a link that opens the same rota; the names travel in that link and are not stored anywhere. A schedule made at `/schedule` can be split into a rota in one tap.
0.9.0
Added
- Make a cleaning schedule without an account, print it, send it, keep it. The questions about the house now work at `/schedule` before you sign up: answer them and get a schedule grouped by how often, each chore saying which answer put it there. "Print it" gives one page with tick boxes for the fridge, "Send this schedule" passes on a link that opens the same schedule, and "Put this on a list that reminds you" carries it into a new account — where you still tick which ones go on before anything is added.
0.8.0
Added
- Link previews, a way in from a shared report, and a Send button. A choremen link pasted into a chat now shows a picture card — and a guide's card says the question and how often. Somebody opening a report you sent can start a list of their own from the bottom of it. On a phone, "Send" beside a report's link opens the share sheet with the link and a line to go with it, and every guide has "Send this to someone".
0.7.0
Added
- Public guides to how often each chore needs doing, at `/chores` — one page per chore with what the mess actually is and what shifts it, readable without an account. "Put it on a list" on any of them fills in the add-a-chore form for you; it still waits for you to press Add.
0.6.0
Added
- A way back in when you have forgotten your password. Put the address into the sign-in card, press "forgotten your password?", and a link to set a new one goes to that inbox. It works once, runs out within the hour, and using it signs out everything the old password was signed in on.
0.5.0
Added
- What is due each morning, if you ask for it: a notification on any device you have allowed one on, and a single email listing the lot if you have not. Off until you switch it on, and a morning with nothing due sends nothing.
- ChoreMen can be added to a home screen and opened like an app, which on an iPhone is what makes a morning notification possible at all.
0.4.0
Added
- Rename a chore from the list, without deleting it and adding it back.
- A weekly email of the last seven days, to whoever asks for it.
0.3.0
Added
- A notification that tells you whether the chore actually landed, rather than leaving you to check.
- Add a chore by saying it, from the page or from a phone shortcut.
- Something back for every tick: tips, breaks and private marks.
- Reports of what got done, and links that share them.
- A wizard that asks about the house and works out the chores from the answers.
Fixed
- `www.choremen.fun` failed its TLS handshake instead of serving the site.
0.2.0
Added
- The chore list, recurring chores and the wall.
0.1.0
Added
- First deployment.