Frequently asked questions

A shared household app for remembering and running everyday life — tasks, calendar, shopping, meals, medicine, notes, and chat — with an AI companion (Noy Tomas) that can help manage that data.

Create a household when you sign up, or join one with a household invite key. Join requests can wait for an admin to accept. You can belong to more than one household and switch the active one in the app.

Yes. Members such as children or helpers can exist without logging in. Someone with an account can assign tasks and medicines to them.

Access is per feature (action items, calendar, shopping, medicine, vault, budgeting, and so on). The household owner always has admin. What you see follows your member accesses and household membership.

What needs attention now (overdue or due today), medication still to give, shopping count, and a short greeting from Noy Tomas — plus upcoming items.

Yes. Open Needs attention → View all, scroll to Done today, and tap the check again. That removes the completion log. For a recurring action item, the due date rolls back when that log was what advanced it. You can also remove a log from the action item’s completion history.

New medicines often start at the next dose later today. Aruga still treats the course as active on that day, so remaining doses should appear under “to give.” Paused medicines are left out of the count.

An action item is something to do (pay a bill, buy a cake). An event is something that happens (birthday party, appointment). Tip: event “Mia’s birthday (Apr 12)” → action item “Buy cake (due Apr 10).”

Logging one as done records a completion and moves the item to the next due date so the reminder doesn’t disappear. Unticking (or removing that log) can restore the previous due when appropriate.

Yes. Set a start date before the due date. It shows on the calendar each day of the run (with “Day X of Y” for multi-day events and runs).

Yes. Action items and medicines can be paused (optionally until a resume time). While paused they stay off Needs attention and the calendar until resumed.

No. It’s a unified view of events, action items, meals, medicine, and birthdays. Edit the underlying item to change the schedule.

So you can see the whole run. Each day is labeled (e.g. Day 1 of 3).

Per medicine: times a day, every N hours, or other recurrence rules, from a start time. Late or early doses can shift later ones. You can complete a course early or pause it.

From Needs attention, the Medication screen, or related home tiles — mark given (or skip) for the scheduled slot.

No. A meal plan is what the household plans to eat on a day. A recipe lives in the Cookbook. Linking a meal to a recipe is optional.

Yes — ingredients from recipes can be sent to shopping so the list stays shared.

Household Chat is for everyone in the house (you can tag members or Noy Tomas). Companion chat is private between you and Noy Tomas. Only household chat unread badges the main Chat icon; the hub shows which thread has new messages.

From Home, the global + sheet (“Ask Noy Tomas”), or by mentioning @tomas (also @noy, @noytomas, @alfred) in Household Chat. He can search and update household data you have access to.

He works from a short briefing of what’s relevant and calls tools when he needs more — under the same household permissions as you.

Logs over time: measurements, counts, choices, duration, or currency amounts. Some can show on Home or link to an illness, issue, event, or budget.

Household currency and period forecasts vs actuals (income and spending), so the household can plan and track together.

No. Data is scoped to your household. Members only see what their access allows.

Owners can transfer ownership or delete a household (with name confirmation). Members can leave; the last owner must hand off ownership first if others still have accounts.

Use the account deletion flow in the app (backed by the account edge function). Households you owned are handed to another member when possible.

Flutter app for iOS, Android, and web.

Writes can queue while you’re offline and sync when you’re back; you’ll see an offline indicator when the connection is down.

If something doesn’t match what you expect, check Home → Needs attention (and View all / Done today), the item’s own detail screen, and whether the item is paused or completed. For AI help inside the household, ask Noy Tomas from chat or +. Or write [email protected] / [email protected].