Add notes to a task
Leave a note on a chore, so the next person to do it does not have to ask.
Where to find it
Open a task → Notes
A lot of household knowledge lives in one person’s head: which setting the machine wants, where the spare key is, what the neighbour’s dog is called. Notes are where that goes so it stops being a reason only one person can do a job.
- Open the task.
- Tap Notes.
- Type it, choose who it is from if you like, and send.
Notes stay with the task, so whoever picks it up next reads them where the work is.
Instructions a child can follow
For step-by-step instructions, use How to do it on the task itself instead. A child sees it on their own board, folded under the job. See add a task.
Why this matters for fairness
The most stubborn kind of imbalance is not laziness, it is knowledge. If only one person knows how the boiler timer works, that job cannot move to anybody else no matter how the score looks. Writing it down is one of the few things that genuinely redistributes work.
Related
House-wide information that is not about a single job belongs in House Notes (More → House Notes) instead.
Updated 29 September 2026. Something here wrong or missing? Tell us — we'd rather fix the page than answer it twice.
