Tools

Livspusslet

Every household runs on a plan that lives in one person's head. This one puts the year on a page, so it stops being one person's job to remember it.

Open the clickable prototype →It is an application. A big screen suits it.

What it tries to solve

Nothing in a household is difficult on its own. Booking the chimney sweep is not difficult. What is difficult is that there are two hundred of them a year, they have no shared list, and they are all held in the same head — usually not the head that volunteered. And most of them have a window rather than a date: booking the boat's winter storage in June is early, in October it is a phone call to somewhere already full.

What it does

• A rolling year, drawn as windows. Each arc starts when it is worth starting and ends on the last day that works, and the reminders count backwards from when preparation has to begin rather than from the day itself.
• Chores with minutes on them. Weighted by age, so the split becomes something to look at together instead of argue about. The gap between what was agreed and what the log says is roughly the whole agenda of a family meeting.
• Food, holidays and money that know who lives here. Meals against each person's diet and training load, holiday arithmetic ranked by how many days off each vacation day buys, and a budget with a reference value, your own figure and the outcome side by side.
• A calendar each. One feed per person that Apple, Google and Outlook subscribe to — their own things plus everything shared.

It runs as a single process on your own machine. No accounts, no cloud: the whole household is two files you can copy to back it up.

Where it is

A working prototype my own family uses. Swedish throughout — the holidays, school terms and grocery habits it knows are Swedish too, and an English version is a real translation job rather than a switch.