Practical writing on home management — from building a maintenance system to thinking about physical organisation.
Every let property has a folder in the kitchen drawer. It contains stale instructions, a photocopied Wi-Fi password, and a note about bin day that may or may not still be accurate. There is a better version of this.
No house ships with documentation. Casabeza is how you build it — incrementally, as a side effect of managing the home you already have.
Building a home maintenance schedule from scratch means knowing what you don't know. The Casabeza task library covers 63 household systems and vehicles with 178 pre-built templates — so you start with a comprehensive schedule, not a blank page.
Google Calendar gives you a date and a repeat interval. Casabeza gives you the full range of scheduling logic that home maintenance actually requires — seasonal, astronomical, completion-anchored, and inventory-triggered.
A phone scanner is a compromise. We're building two dedicated units — a dual-channel NFC reader with visual confirmation, and a camera device with onboard barcode and QR decoding.
A location is a discrete context where you keep things. A place is a named zone within it. The distinction sounds subtle until you try to manage more than one location.
Most households have no idea what their recurring expenses actually look like in aggregate. Here's what changes when you do.
The more steps between noticing something and recording it, the less gets recorded. Physical labels and MQTT readers reduce that gap to a single tap.
Attaching a label to a product variety and pointing a reader channel at numerics turns price logging from a four-tap task into no task at all.
Home management data is uniquely personal. Here's why the software handling it should take that seriously.
Most tagging systems collapse complexity into flat labels. Compound tags let you describe the specific ways items vary — without losing the ability to compare across them.
When more than one person manages a home, information gets siloed in individual memories. Here's what that costs and how to fix it.
Coffee pods, laundry detergent, dishwasher tablets — the things you buy every few weeks quietly add up. Here's how to see the real picture.
The problem with home maintenance isn't knowing what to do. It's having a system that reminds you at the right time.
Most people can't name half the things they own. Here's why that matters, and what you can do about it.