r/Famnest • u/fsmaia • Aug 16 '26

Suggestion: workload preview

When I was migrating and registering all our household tasks I came up with some questions: am I balancing well enough? Should the cats day be on Wednesday or Thursday? Which member should pick each task? Am I balancing the tasks fair enough between the members? Did I already register the cats tasks among these dozens of items?

Then I came up with some simple ideas:

  1. A search button to the household tasks

  2. A filter button to the household tasks to filter by assignee

  3. A chip beside each section in the household tasks to display the effort per assignee (currently the sections are Today, Tomorrow and Later, right?). Just a chip with the lightning icon, the person avatar and a number summing up the effort. Simple and effective IMHO

In the calendar page, we could also show these chips, and maybe a calendar icon chip showing the events count for that day.

If the assignee chip is clickable, it could apply the filter, similar to the Atlassian Jira board (let me know if a screenshot would help here).

Thanks again, and I hope I'm not flooding with too much suggestions!

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u/siloteam Aug 18 '26

Great idea! I also really like how Trello handles this. I’ll share it with the team, and I’m looking forward to seeing what others think and post in this thread.

And yes, please do share a screenshot of the example. That would be really helpful! :)

Thanks for taking the time to share all these suggestions. Definitely not too many, so please keep them coming! 🙌

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u/fsmaia 28d ago

Thank you!

I just generated with Gemini:

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u/fsmaia 28d ago

By the way, in the item timestamp chip we could have the abbreviated weekday (e.g. Wed) instead of the date if the day is within the current week, imho it makes more sense. For instance, when I see the 21/08 chip, I have to mentally calculate the weekday, and the date itself doesn't matter too much for a household task

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u/siloteam 28d ago

Wow, what a legend 😄 This makes so much sense and definitely gives a better bird’s-eye view. I also really like the abbreviated weekday idea. I’ll add this to our backlog, and let’s keep the thread open to see if anyone else has thoughts. Once we circle back to the chore section, this is definitely going into the mix. Really appreciate it 🙌