Tody

This app is wonderful. I’m generally a pretty tidy person but struggled with how to maintain our household once I had three young kids close together. I’ll admit sometimes the app overwhelms me because it bosses me around. But it’s a good kind of bossing and three main benefits have come of using this app: 1. It has helped me not get so hung-up on certain tasks. It has helped me to just get it done with the tasks I tend to put off. Cleaning the fish tank used to be something I’d let slip because it’s a pain. But in reality it only takes like 10 minutes and I’d rather just get it done than have the app turn red on the task! Haha! 2. It has helped me to only focus on what’s right in front of me. In the past I’d look at all the things not getting done and berate myself about them but those days are gone because I know that messy room or that cluttered closet will have its designated time, and if that time isn’t today, I can let it go! 3. I just love having everything in the same place. I put my freelance work, bills, garden tasks, daily Bible reading, cooking, hobbies, random reminders like signing kids up for swimming lessons, even taking showers (yes, apparently I need an app for that, haha), in this app. I love that it helps me prioritize all types of things - not just cleaning! This app is a total game-changer and worth every penny!

This tool allows you to set a frequency for each household task. Tasks are organized by room, and there are also options for the whole house, garage, and outdoors tasks. Initially, you choose one of three levels for how clean you want to keep things. This sets a default frequency for each task to get you started. Then, you go through and adjust the tasks, areas, and frequencies to your liking. The app creates a cleaning list and shows tasks with color coding to represent how urgent/ close to due the tasks are- green for not due for awhile, red for overdue, etc. There is a pause button for seasonal tasks. For example, packing school bags can be paused for the summer and weeding the garden can be paused for the winter. It is also possible to schedule infrequent tasks that happen every few months or even yearly. The thing that makes this better than a typical cleaning checklist or schedule is that items can easily be scheduled for unusual frequencies. Maybe every week is too often to clean the shower, but two weeks is too infrequent. It is easy to set the frequency to 10 days because the app will keep track for you, optimizing your use of time. And if you don’t get to it, the app will keep rolling it over to the next day for you. If you decide to do it a couple days early, the app will adjust for that, too. This is one of the most helpful apps that I use day-to-day. I highly recommend it.

There are three modes of cleaning. Relaxed, Standard, and Proactive. By choosing your style of cleaning it will automatically suggest the amount of days, weeks, or months for the preprogrammed cleaning guide. This is really amazing especially since it suggests things that someone might forget like washing your outside Windows or wiping down your inside doors. I highly suggest you just load everything in that is listed for each area unless of course you don't own it (e.g. I don't have glass shower doors in our upstairs bathroom so I didn't add in that task). It's well worth the money and the capsule colors keep you in line with what area needs the most attention. I personally check each zone every day to see what's in the red (meaning what's either due or behind). Also I love how it keeps track of how overdue I am on a task. For instance I actually made a zone called cat, lol. In the zone I put throughly wash cat box every two months, empty poo every day, and change the pellets monthly (we use the Breeze system), as well as change pee pad every ten days. It is amazing how many times I get busy and time slips by and it will read throughly clean litter box as all red and I will think to myself man two months went by already? My only suggestion for using this app is not to wait for the main area to be red. Check the areas daily. There is notifications that you can set to remind you when tasks are due or overdue so you can set those up as well. I love this app.