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Tasks

The shared list of what needs doing and how often, so the same job stops being done twice or not at all.

Written by Brian Fluhr

To use Tasks, sign in first.

This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.

Tasks is the shared list of things that need doing. Some happen once. Most come round again.

Where to find it

Open Family & Friends and tap Tasks. On My Day, the On your calendar card counts your shared to-dos that are due among your items for today.

Tasks is part of Essential, and pauses on the Free plan.

How often a task repeats

Each task carries how often it comes round. The choices are Once, Daily, Weekly, Every 2 weeks and Monthly.

Getting this right is most of the value. A task set to repeat is a task nobody has to remember, and it is the difference between a list you keep and a list you rewrite.

Choose the interval that matches how the job really comes round. When it fits, the list stays calm and easy to trust.

Where tasks come from

You can add your own, and some arrive from elsewhere in SeniorThrive. A finding from a Room Check that you hand to someone in your Circle lands here. Those carry a link back to the full home safety detail: the photograph, why it matters and what to do about it.

That link is worth following before you do the job, not after.

A message in the family chat can become a task too. Under the message, tap Turn into task, give it a date and a person if you like, and it arrives here on the shared list. The article Turn a message into a task, so a promise in the chat does not get lost walks through it.

Sharing the list

The list is shared with your Circle. A professional caregiver opens the same list from their side. It is also titled Tasks, and under the title it says it is shared with your family and that they can claim what fits the visit.

This is the whole reason it exists. The failure it is built to prevent is two people doing the same job on the same Saturday while a third thing nobody claimed goes undone for a month.

Adding a task to your calendar

A task can be put on your calendar from the list. Useful for anything with a real date attached, less so for the everyday repeating jobs, which are better left to the interval.

What it will not do

It does not chase anyone. The person a task is assigned to gets one reminder on the morning it is due, and that is all. Nothing is escalated, and an overdue task does not send a message to your family telling them you did not do it.

It also does not assign work to people on its own. Somebody still has to decide who does what, and that conversation is not one an app should be having on your behalf.

Keeping it usable

A shorter list is easier to keep up with, and easier to read at a glance.

Take things off once they stop mattering. If something has sat there a while, that is good information: either it belongs to a different season of life, or it needs breaking into a smaller step. Clearing it is progress, not giving up.

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