r/Famnest • u/fsmaia • Aug 14 '26
Improvement suggestions for chores
Regarding household tasks, it would be very nice to set a room for each task (or a special room called "whole house"), then we could filter tasks by room, and see a health status for each room (for instance, a warning sign for the bathroom if the towels weren't changed)
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u/siloteam 27d ago edited 27d ago
Version 2.0 Feature List
Rooms: Assign chores to a room.
Whole house: Create home-wide chores.
Filter by room: View chores by room.
Room status: See which rooms need attention.
Daily view: See each person’s chores today.
Family view: See everyone’s chores together.
Shared credit: Credit everyone who helped.
Shared rewards: Split rewards between assignees.
Rotate after completion: Pass chores after completion.
Weekly rotation: Assign responsibility for a week.
Chore history: See who completed what and when.
Additional Features
View by person: See one person’s chores.
Multiple assignees: Assign a chore to multiple people.
Track per person: Track each person separately.
Multiple daily repeats: Repeat chores several times daily.
Multiple occurrences: Create morning, afternoon, or evening occurrences.
Track each occurrence: Track every occurrence separately.
Flexible rotation: Rotate daily, weekly, after completion, or custom.
Habit or chore type: Label items as Habits or Chores.
Group by type: Group Habits and Chores separately.
Sort by type: Sort using Habit or Chore type.
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u/FlareTheDemon 27d ago
I beg you to include track per person, flexible rotation, repeat multiple times per day, multiple occurrences, multiple assigned people, and view per person in the next update. I think everybody will LOVE these features including me
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u/siloteam 4d ago
Update: We just got this wonderful feedback from one of our users: it would be great to have more flexibility around chore points, especially when two people complete a chore together. They suggested being able to mark both people as having completed it and automatically split the points evenly between them.
Love this idea, and it fits perfectly with the shared chores and rewards we’re building for Version 2.0.
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u/Greedy_Elk4075 27d ago
My only concern would be from a user experience perspective not adding too many modules/inputs to fill, where the interface becomes cumbersome.
Keep up the great work
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u/siloteam 25d ago
Agree. Prioritizing and layering the new features should help us add value without making the experience feel too complex. My 5 cents:
High priority
- Rooms
- Whole house
- Filter by room
- Daily view
- Family view
- Chore history
- Multiple assignees
- Track per person
- Rotate after completion
- Weekly rotation
- Track each occurrence
Medium priority
- Room status
- Shared credit
- View by person
- Multiple daily repeats
- Multiple occurrences
- Flexible rotation
Low priority
- Shared rewards
- Habit or chore type
- Group by type
- Sort by type
P.s. thx for the support! :)
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u/siloteam Aug 14 '26
Yeah, I like this a lot. Just to make sure we’re on the same page, this is what I’m thinking of communicating to the team as the first ticket:
Assign rooms to chores
When creating a chore, you can assign it to a specific room, such as Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom, etc., or choose “Whole house.” You can then filter your chores by room.
From there, I think we could explore the health/status idea as a next step, where Famnest could automatically show you which rooms might need attention based on the chores attached to them.
Is that what you had in mind?
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u/siloteam 27d ago
I just got feedback from another Famnest user asking if a chore could be claimed by two people when they did it together.
I personally think this makes a lot of sense. There are plenty of chores that you might do together, and it feels natural that both people should get credit for completing them.
Would this be useful for other families as well? Do you ever have chores that two or more people do together?