Recurring chores and calendar feeds

A recurring template is the pattern: make bed every day, clean the coop quarterly, take out trash every Tuesday, or vacuum common areas weekly. The generated chore is the actual piece of work a child completes and a parent reviews.

This distinction keeps history clean. If a child completes "make bed" today, that completion belongs to today’s chore, not to a vague forever item that slowly becomes impossible to audit.

Use one-time chores for unusual work: fix the deck, prepare for a party, clean after a spill, or replace a door. Use recurring templates for jobs the family expects to repeat.

Daily chores should be small and predictable: beds, pet food, dishes, counters, or a five-minute reset. If a daily chore takes 45 minutes, it is probably too broad or belongs on a different cadence.

Weekly chores are good for work that can wait a few days but should not disappear: bathrooms, laundry folding, trash bins, floors, backpacks, or the family car.

Monthly and quarterly chores are best for maintenance: filters, deep cleaning, pool tiles, seasonal storage, coop refreshes, garage zones, and outdoor projects.

When in doubt, start less frequent and increase later. A chore that appears too often teaches everyone to ignore it.

Recurring chores can be assigned to one person, shared across several people, or rotated depending on how your family handles fairness. Rotation helps with chores nobody loves because the turn is visible before the argument begins.

Bulk assignment is useful when one routine belongs to several children, such as "make bed" or "clear dishes." It saves setup time while still generating concrete chores for each child.

Fair does not always mean equal. A teenager, a younger child, a child with practice, and a child learning a task may need different difficulty, reward, and review expectations.

Private calendar feeds help chores appear in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, and similar apps. They are read-only because Choreze remains the source of truth for editing, completion, proof, approval, and rewards.

Use family feeds when a parent wants the big picture, child feeds when a kid needs their own schedule, and review-focused feeds when a parent wants to see work waiting on them.

Calendar apps cache subscriptions, so updates may not appear instantly. If a chore changed in Choreze but your calendar looks old, wait for the calendar app to refresh before assuming something broke.

Do not paste calendar feed links in public places or shared documents. Anyone with the private link may be able to read that feed. If a link is exposed, rotate or revoke the feed link from settings.

If chores are expiring before kids can reasonably do them, adjust the due window or cadence. The app is reporting the schedule you gave it; the family may need a schedule that breathes.

If kids say they never saw the chore, check assignment, visibility settings, notification preferences, and whether they are using the right account. Duplicate child profiles can also make work appear in the wrong place.

If the calendar feed looks crowded, split feeds by child or use Choreze for the working view and the external calendar only for high-level due dates.

If a recurring chore keeps creating arguments, it probably needs a better definition of done, a reference photo, a different owner, or a lower frequency.