How do I…?
Short, practical guides to everything in Tidings. Each one takes about a minute to read.
Getting started
Your first look around, and how Tidings thinks.
- Getting around TidingsA quick tour of the dashboard and where everything lives.
- How Tidings builds your maintenance planWhere your tasks come from, and why new ones can appear on their own.
- How Tidings decides what mattersWhat the three tiers mean, how they differ from due dates, and the two rules that protect your plan.
Home & rooms
Build out your floor plan and keep each room covered.
- Add a roomBuild out your home's floor plan one room at a time.
- Rooms, fixtures, and room tasksOpen a room's panel to manage its fixtures, appliances, and tasks in one place.
- Change your home's name, type, or addressHome name, home type, and what your home has are editable any time; address changes go through a quick review.
Appliances
Register, correct, replace, and retire your equipment.
- Add an applianceRegister a unit by scanning its nameplate or typing it in, and get its service schedule automatically.
- Assign an appliance to a roomPut each unit where it lives, or move it later.
- Correct an appliance's typeFiled your water heater as tankless but it's a tank? Fix the type and Tidings swaps the tasks to match.
- Replace an appliance with a new unitSwapped in a new water heater or fridge? Replace keeps the old unit's history and starts the new one fresh.
- Delete an applianceTake a unit off your plan while its completed history stays on the record.
Tasks
Complete, tune, add, and clear maintenance tasks.
- Complete a taskCheck work off from anywhere; it all lands in your home's service history.
- Remove or hide a taskDelete your own tasks, hide minor upkeep, and turn off tasks for hardware your home doesn't have.
- Adjust how often tasks come dueThree dials: one task's interval, your whole plan's pace, and how far ahead you look.
- Add your own taskTrack anything Tidings doesn't already, one-off or repeating, whole-home or per room.
- Put Tidings tasks on your calendarSubscribe your calendar app to your live Tidings feed, or export a one-time snapshot. Works with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or any calendar app.
Account & billing
Your plan, your household, your data.
- You've been gifted Tidings: getting startedYour agent covered your first year of Tidings Pro. Here's how to claim it and what happens after.
- Manage billing, cancel, or get a refundUpdate your card, switch plans, download invoices, cancel, and how refunds work.
- Add household members and assign tasksShare the work: add the people in your home and put their names on tasks.
For agents
Gifting Tidings to your clients.
Can't find what you need? Email support@tasks.house and a person will get back to you.