Life Maintenance

Calendar view

The Calendar page is where everything lands: maintenance schedules, family events, holidays, kid's practice. Four views, drag and drop, and filters for when the noise gets too much.

What shows on the calendar

  • Maintenance schedules with upcoming or overdue dates.
  • Family events (anything anyone adds with the + Event button).
  • Cross-item groups as a single chip per day instead of one per item.
  • Checklist instances that have a due date.
  • Birthdays and anniversaries from your People records.

What does not show:

  • Your personal Google Calendar events. (Unless you set up Google Calendar sync and chose to mirror them.)
  • One-time todos that do not have a due date.

Four views

The view picker is in the top right.

  • Month. The classic grid. Best for planning.
  • Week. Seven days with time slots, similar to Google Calendar.
  • Day. Today only, with hour-by-hour detail.
  • List. A scrollable text list, ordered by date. Great for printing or sending to family.

Your last-used view sticks across visits.

Adding a quick event

There are a few ways:

  • Click any empty day to open a quick add modal.
  • Click the + in the top bar and pick Event.
  • On the Wall Tablet kiosk, tap anywhere on the calendar.

The form asks for title, date, time, location, who it is for, and whether it should repeat.

Drag and drop

Click and drag any schedule or event chip to a new day. The schedule's next-due date updates and the recurrence picks up from the new date. We will ask before applying recurrence changes if it would push out subsequent dates.

Cross-item groups can be dragged as a unit; every schedule inside moves together.

Filtering

Above the calendar, three filter buttons:

  • Who. Show only tasks assigned to one family member.
  • What. Filter by item category. "Just car stuff" or "just pets."
  • Status. Hide completed, show overdue only, show only this week.

Filters apply to all four views and to the printable list view.

Color coding

Schedules and events are color-coded by category. You can change the palette under Settings → Appearance. The defaults are designed to be color-blind friendly and to print well in black and white.

Marking things done from the calendar

Click any schedule chip to open it in a popover. You can mark it done, snooze it, or click Open to go to the full schedule detail page. No need to leave the calendar.

Sharing the calendar

A few options:

  • Print or PDF the current view from the menu in the top right.
  • Subscribe in Google Calendar by setting up Google Calendar sync. One-way, but lets your whole calendar app know.
  • Send to family. The list view supports an email-friendly export.

The wall tablet

The iPad wall tablet kiosk shows a touch-optimized version of this same calendar. It is meant to be glanced at from across the kitchen, not stared at up close.

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