Use case
When did I last change the smoke alarm battery?
Testing an alarm and changing its battery are two different jobs on two different clocks, and both are the kind of thing you only think about when you hear a chirp. Tracked separately, each one has a date you can actually look up.
What goes on the list
Test the smoke alarm
Every 6 months · Home
Replace the smoke alarm battery
Every year · Home
These come from the app’s starter packs, so the intervals shown are the ones it offers. They are starting points, not advice — change any of them when you add it.
How it works for this
The app records the date you tell it, and works out the next one from the interval on the item. The intervals in the starter pack are starting points and you can change them to whatever your alarms, or the instructions that came with them, call for.
If you have several alarms, add one item per alarm and give each the name of its room. The Ask tab then answers "when did I last test the landing alarm" with that item and its dates.
Other things people track
A household maintenance tracker
Track the household jobs that come round every few weeks or months, see what is due, and record the date each time you do one.
A car service and maintenance log
A dated log of car jobs — the service, the tyres, the screen wash — with a reminder when each is next due.
A flea and worming treatment tracker
Record the date of each flea and worming treatment and see when the next one is due.
When did I last replace my toothbrush head?
Track when you last replaced a toothbrush head, and get a reminder when the next one is due.
An appliance cleaning and descaling tracker
Track descaling, filter changes and the deep cleans that appliances need, with the date of the last one and a reminder for the next.
Start with this list
The starter pack adds all of it at once, and every interval is editable straight after.