Life Maintenance

Points and achievements

Life Maintenance has a light points system to make staying on top of household work a little more fun. You earn points for completing tasks, checking in daily, finishing quests, and reaching milestones. It is entirely optional and easy to turn off if you do not want it.

How to earn points

| Activity | Points | | --- | --- | | Mark a schedule done | 10 per task | | Mark an overdue schedule done | 15 per task (a bonus for catching up) | | Daily check-in | 5 per day | | 3-day streak | 25 bonus | | 7-day streak | 100 bonus | | 30-day streak | 500 bonus | | Complete a quest | 50 to 500 depending on difficulty | | Hit a milestone achievement | One-time, varies |

You also earn small amounts for logging costs, photographing receipts, and other "good behavior" actions.

Quests

Quests are themed challenges that change weekly. Each is a small bundle of tasks you can complete to earn points.

Examples:

  • Pet Week. Complete 3 pet-related schedules. 100 points.
  • Garage Spring Clean. Mark 5 outdoor or garage tasks done. 200 points.
  • Save Money Month. Log $500 in maintenance costs. 100 points.
  • Family Together. Mark 1 schedule done with each family member. 250 points.

Quests appear on the Home page when they are active. You can also browse all current quests at Profile → Quests.

Streaks

A streak is a string of consecutive days where you did at least one thing in the app: checked in, marked something done, logged a cost.

Streaks get bigger bonuses the longer they run. We will remind you in the evening if you are about to break a streak.

If you miss a day, the streak resets. You get one "freeze" per month: a single missed day that does not reset the streak. Use it wisely.

Achievements

Achievements are one-time milestones. Some examples:

  • First steps. Add your first item.
  • Set the table. Add 10 items.
  • Domestic engineer. Add 50 items.
  • Tidy week. Mark 7 schedules done in 7 days.
  • Marathoner. Mark 100 schedules done.
  • Family band. Invite 5 family members.
  • Whole house. Add at least one item from every category.

There are about 40 in total. You can browse them all at Profile → Achievements.

The family leaderboard

On the Family plan, the Family leaderboard shows who is most active this month. It is friendly, not competitive: we never call out who is doing the least.

Toggle it off under Settings → Notifications → Show family leaderboard if you would rather not see it.

Where you see points

  • Home page. A small points tally in the top right.
  • Profile → Stats. Full breakdown with charts, level, quests, achievements.
  • The family leaderboard if you are on Family.
  • Activity reminders. Quest completions and streak milestones generate a small in-app celebration.

What points are good for

Right now, nothing tangible. The system is designed as motivation, not currency. We may introduce redemption (free months of Pro, gift cards) later, but we will tell you well in advance and never retroactively devalue points you earned.

Turning it off

If gamification is not your thing, you can hide the whole system:

  1. Open Settings → Notifications.
  2. Toggle off Show points and achievements.

Points stop being shown anywhere in the UI. We keep earning them in the background (so you can re-enable later without losing progress) but you will not see them.

Family-only: separate vs. shared totals

By default, each family member has their own points total. The family leaderboard shows everyone's separately.

You can switch to a shared household total under Family settings if you prefer cooperative play. Everyone's actions contribute to one pool.

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