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Sharing a place
Everybody on a place has their own sign-in. What they can see and do comes from two things: the kind of access you gave them, and whose each building is.
The kinds of access
You choose one when you invite somebody, from on your screen. They sign in with their own email and type the code you send them.
| On the invite | What they can do |
|---|---|
| The owner | Everything: invite people, remove the place. That is you, on a place you set up. |
| Change schedules too | See what is due, mark it done, add tasks, and change how often check-ups come round. |
| See what is due, and mark it done | See the tasks and check-ups, mark them done, and say on a task. |
| Look, and nothing else | See it all, change nothing. |
Everything, or one building? An invite can be for the whole place or for one building. One building means they see that building and what is attached to it, and nothing else of yours.
Good until is the last day the code works. Once they have joined, they stay on the place until they leave it from their own screen.
Coming: taking somebody off a place yourself.
Whose a building is
A building on your place can be somebody else’s: a tiny house parked on your land, or a shed you built for someone to use. Whose it is and who can see inside it are separate questions.
What you see of somebody else’s building
It is their call, made when they bring their home in:
- That it is there, and what it is hooked up to. You see the building, and which of your things it runs on: your well, your septic. A problem with your well is yours to know about, so that always shows. Their own things, check-ups, tasks and costs do not.
- Everything in it. It shows like any other building on the place.
If they move on
Each building that is somebody else’s says whether it goes with them or stays here. Something on wheels goes with them; something anchored to the ground stays. You can change it when a building is unusual, like a tiny house on a foundation.
Coming: the step for when somebody actually leaves, which ends their access and sends a building that goes with them on its way with its history.
Taking a task, and what history says
A task is taken, not given. Who has it is nobody yet, you, or a company you call — nobody hands a task to somebody else. Anybody can , even when somebody already has, or just do it and mark it done. It is all work that needs doing.
Cards and lists say yours, taken, or the company’s name. Never another person’s.
History says a task was done, and which company did it if one did — not which of you. A cost says paid by us. Nothing is ever added up: no totals, no counts, no balance.
Comments, and what’s new
Any saved task has Comments at the foot of it, newest first. Type and tap ; it is there straight away, without saving the task. A comment shows who said it and when, and the × beside your own deletes it.
Nobody is tagged in a comment. Whoever wants the task takes it.
On a place with more than one person, a bell next to your name on Home and Tasks shows how many things are new: a comment from somebody else, something they reported broken, and a broken task, or one you have taken, that somebody else marked done. Done says done, not who did it. What you have seen is kept on each phone, so another phone still shows it as new.
What somebody else changes comes in when you open the app or come back to it, unless you have a task open or are part-way through typing.
Set-ups
Family with their own home on your land Works today
Mom’s tiny house, parked on the ranch and hooked up to its well and septic.
- Set your place up first, including the well, septic and anything else her home will run on.
- . Under Do they have their own home here? pick Yes, not on here yet — they will bring it.
- She signs in and accepts. If she has already set her home up in DwelLogs on her own phone, it offers to bring it in, with its things, check-ups, tasks and history.
- She chooses what you see, ticks what her home gets from your place, and says whether her well is the same one as yours. If it is, hers folds into yours rather than becoming a second well. Her own solar, holding tank and battery stay hers.
- From then on her app opens on her home, with the whole place one tap away.
On your screen, her home is one tap away too: All of the place and her home sit side by side at the top of Home and Tasks, when she shares everything in it.
Coming: nothing set up on her phone? Adding her home as a building and handing it to her from its page is set aside for now.
A building you gave someone Coming
The shed you built for her: hers to use, but anchored, so it stays with the place. Handing a building over from its page is set aside for now while the basics are made solid. Add the shed to your place today; it can be handed over later without starting again.
A home parked for a while Works today
An RV or a tiny house on wheels, staying a season. The same as family with their own home: it goes with them when they leave.
Coming: marking the day they leave, so it stops showing on your place.
Their car Works today
Add it from as a vehicle, and under Whose is it? pick them. It is theirs wherever it is parked.
Someone staying and helping out Works today
- Invite them with See what is due, and mark it done.
- They see what needs doing, say on a task, and mark it done.
- When they go, they leave the place from their own screen.
Coming: access that ends on its own on the day they leave, taking somebody off a place yourself, and putting a task out to the whole place for anyone to pick up.
Roommates Partly
Invite each other with Change schedules too, and you can both run the place. Shared chores work the same way: anyone can say .
Coming: things that are one person’s, like your fridge and their TV, so moving out has a list.
Renting a room Coming
A room that is somebody’s, where you see that it is there and not what is in it, the same way a building can be. Today a building can be somebody’s and a room cannot, so a lodger invited to the place sees the whole house.