Knowledge Base

Planning

Routines, rotations, and calendar feeds

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A routine is a chore that repeats. Each repeat is its own chore with its own submission and review, so the history stays clear.

Setting up a routine

Make a chore repeat when you create it, or manage routines from Chores → Routines. Routines can repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

Keep daily routines small: beds, pets, dishes, a five-minute tidy. If a daily chore takes 45 minutes, split it or make it weekly.

When you're unsure, start less often. A chore that shows up too often gets ignored.

Rotations

For a chore nobody wants, select several children and turn on Rotate Between Selected Assignees. Choreze hands the chore to the next child each period, and everyone can see whose turn it is.

For a chore every child does, like making their bed, assign it to all of them without rotation. Each child gets their own copy.

Keeping routines healthy

Chores → Routines shows when each routine last ran and flags any without someone assigned. Check it when a schedule changes.

End a routine that no longer fits rather than letting it pile up overdue chores.

Calendar feeds

In Settings → Integrations, create a private feed for the family or for one child, then subscribe to it from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook.

Feeds are read-only, so kids still submit in Choreze. Calendar apps refresh subscriptions on their own schedule, and changes can take a few hours to show.

Anyone with the link can read the feed. If it's been shared somewhere it shouldn't be, rotate or revoke it.