Welcome to Life Maintenance

Life Maintenance helps you keep track of everything in your life that needs caring for. Your home, your car, your appliances, your pets, your kids, even the houseplants. This guide will show you around in about five minutes.

What Life Maintenance does, in one sentence

You tell us what you own. We tell you when to clean it, replace something, check on it, or take it in. That is the whole product.

You can use it for things you already know about (oil changes, smoke detector batteries), and for things you forgot you were supposed to do (washing the dryer vent, sealing your driveway, descaling the coffee maker).

Signing up

Go to lifemaintenance.io and click Sign up. You can sign up with an email and password, with your Google account, or with Apple. We will send you to your Home page right after.

Life Maintenance has three plans:

• Free is permanent. You can track a handful of items and try every feature.
• Pro is for one person who wants no limits.
• Family lets you invite up to five family members to share a household.

You can change plans any time from Billing.

Your Home page

The first thing you see when you log in is the Home page. Think of it as the morning paper for your house.

It is built out of cards:

• Due now and overdue. What needs attention this week.
• Coming up. A peek at the next two or three weeks.
• Recent activity. What you, your family, or the app has been doing.
• Quick add. A shortcut to add a new item, schedule, or person.

If the page is empty, that is normal. You have not added anything yet.

Adding your first item

The fastest way to feel the product working is to add one thing. Let's say you have a refrigerator.

1. Click the + button at the top of any page and pick Item.
2. Choose the Appliance category, then pick Refrigerator from the list.
3. Give it a name (most people just write "Fridge"). The brand, model, and purchase date are optional but helpful later.
4. Click Save.

The next screen is the most useful part of the app: Review Schedules. We have already pulled together a list of recommended maintenance tasks for a refrigerator, things like cleaning the condenser coils, replacing the water filter, and checking the door seals. Each one has a sensible default schedule.

You can toggle off the ones you do not care about, then click Add schedules. That is it. You now have reminders set up.

Tip. We will not pester you about every single task on day one. Each task gets its own next-due date so reminders are spaced out across the year.

Where things live

Once you have a few things in the app, you will spend most of your time in these five places:

| Page | What it shows | | --- | --- | | Home | Today's view. Due now, coming up, recent activity. | | Items | Every item you track. Filterable by category. | | Schedules | Every maintenance task. Filterable by item or status. | | Calendar | A month-at-a-glance view with drag-and-drop. | | Reports | Summaries: spending, activity, what is overdue. |

The sidebar on the left of every page shows the full menu. On phones, tap the ☰ icon at the top left.

Marking things done

When you do a task, open the schedule and tap Mark done. We will record the date, log the cost if you tell us one, and automatically schedule the next occurrence.

If you forgot to mark something done last month, no problem. There is a Done earlier option that lets you backdate.

What to do next

• Add a few more items. The app gets more useful the more it knows about. Cars, lawn equipment, HVAC, water heater, your kids' school routines.
• Take a tour of your items to learn about categories, sub-items, and locations.
• If you have family at home, set up the Family plan so everyone shares the load.
• If you have an old iPad lying around, turn it into a family dashboard. It is one of the most-loved features.

You can always come back to this Help Center from the sidebar at the bottom of any page.