Daybook
the household administrator
The house, written down.

A private app for one household. It keeps the house's matters in one place with their sources, watches quietly, proposes the next useful step, and acts only on exact approval.

What it does

Household commitments scatter across email, texts, calendars, receipts, shopping lists, maintenance records and memory. The burden is not writing each fact down. It is remembering what they imply, noticing what changed, and knowing when something actually needs doing. Daybook does the clerking: captures, orders and returns, deadlines, tasks and projects, shopping, the cars, the pets, the plants and the home, each tracked to its true endpoint with the source that says so.

It also keeps a commonplace book, Commonplace, for ideas and decisions worth finding again, with every passage cited to where it was said.

Todaycalendar read 7:58 am
Messages last checked yesterday at 6:40 pm. The Mac was asleep.
Return window for the desk lamp closes Friday
Merchant email, Oct 9 · return within 30 days of delivery
Confirm the service appointment draft
Suggested next · the shop's earliest slot is Thursday
Check the ficus soil
Last confirmed watering Oct 14 · rule from the nursery's care sheet
Merchant says refund issued
Waiting since Oct 12 · receipt not yet confirmed

An illustration with invented data. Every line names its source and says only what the source says.

How it behaves

One place, with sources

Every item opens its record, and the record shows where it came from and when it was last checked.

Unknown is not none

A stale source says it is stale. A quiet inbox is reported as a quiet inbox, never as a check that failed.

Approval for consequences, not busywork

Edits apply at once with undo. Anything that leaves the house, an email or a calendar change, shows its exact contents and waits for one clear yes.

Ordinary software first

Add, complete, snooze, correct, search and approve all work through plain controls. The assistant proposes; it never decides. With the model off, everything else still works.

Private by construction

One owner, on the owner's own Mac and phone. No public service, no account to sign up for, nothing read without being asked.

Status

In development. Daybook is being built for one household first, and is not available to download or to join. This page will say so when that changes.