Get a fairer week ahead

When the score is lopsided, the useful question is not “who is behind?” but “what should move?”. This screen answers that.

1. More → Fairer Week Ahead.
2. Equal House looks at the coming week and suggests which tasks could move to whom.
3. Accept the ones you agree with. Nothing moves until you say so.

Applying them says what moved and where the week is heading — “Shared out 3 tasks. On track for 88/100.” — naming nobody. The other grown-ups’ next open says Tasks were shared out, once a week at most, and doesn’t say who did it either.

From Bric’s page

From version 1.16.0 of the app.

A fairer week on the Bric tab shows the first moves this screen would make and the days they cover: the next 7, or the next 4 on the Free plan. See the fairer week opens this screen.

How it decides

It works from the same weighting as the Fairness Score — effort and capacity, not headcount — and prefers moving work that is genuinely movable. A task tied to a person for a real reason tends to stay put.

Why it asks rather than acts

A household is not a scheduling problem. Equal House does not know that one of you cannot face another bedtime this week, or that the other has a deadline on Thursday. Proposing and letting a person decide keeps the app useful without it becoming another thing arguing with you.

Watchers

You can ask to be told when the balance drifts, rather than remembering to come and look. The nudge arrives quietly and points here.

Watchers also hear when someone else applies a fairer week: “Tasks for the week ahead were shared out.” Like everything else here, it says what happened to the week, never who did it.

If nothing is suggested

Either the week is already reasonably shared, or there is not much in it yet. A thin week produces thin suggestions — the fix is usually more of the real work being written down, not a better algorithm.