What’s new
What changed in Homedrawer, and when. Newest first; the legal pages keep their own record of changes to their words.
Your name, and one home per account
- Signing up asks for your first name and, if you like, your last name. Your first name is how every email and message from Homedrawer addresses you, and you can change both under Settings → Profile.
- Homedrawer is one home per account for now. A second home is part of the paid plan when it arrives.
The Store field remembers where you shop
- While you type a store, a list under the field offers your household’s favourite stores, the places you have bought that kind of thing from before, and popular stores in your country — Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
- A star on any row makes that store a favourite for everyone at home, so it comes up first next time. You can still type any store at all.
- Adding an item now has a “No warranty” switch, for a second-hand vehicle or anything whose coverage has run out.
- This page exists: a plain record of what changed and when, for anyone who wants to know.
Vehicles
- Cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, boats and RVs can be kept like anything else you own, with their model year and their odometer or engine hours.
- Maintenance can be by distance as well as by date — every 8,000 km or six months, whichever comes first — and readings you log show how far away the next service is at your pace.
- A warranty can end at a date or a distance. Type the VIN and tap Look up to fill in the make, model and year. Vehicles are checked for recalls against Transport Canada and the US NHTSA.
- Every item can now carry links — the owners’ forum, a parts diagram, a how-to video.
Our legal pages say what changed
- The Terms, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy each show the date their words last changed and a short list of what changed.
- When a change matters to you, every account holder is emailed once, before it applies.
Manuals, from the manufacturer
- When an item has a brand and a model, Homedrawer looks for the manual on the manufacturer’s own website and shows it on the item for you to check. We link to the manufacturer’s copy; we never keep our own.
- One tap says it is the right manual, or reports a wrong or dead link.
Maintenance tasks can be someone’s, or taken in turns
- A maintenance task can belong to one person, to someone without an account, to everyone, or go round in turns, exactly like a chore. Reminders go to whoever it is for.
- Who did what counts maintenance alongside chores, on the Household page and in the monthly summary.
Who does what
- A chore can be taken in turns among the people at home, including someone without an account, and the next turn comes round on its own.
- Every chore done is credited to the person whose turn it was, and the Household page keeps the tally.
- Setting up a new home now starts with a few chores, so the household has something to do from the first day.
Chores for the whole house
- Tasks has two tabs now: Chores and Maintenance. A chore can be for one person, for everyone, or for a kid without an account; it can repeat, on particular weekdays if you like, and the important ones are marked.
- The home page is a collection of every section, with the next thing that needs a person on each tile, and you can be told when someone adds something to the drawer.
- Uploads are checked by their bytes, so a file is what it says it is.
Start with a photo, recalls, push, a PDF for your insurer
- Adding an item can start with a photo of the label or the receipt: the brand, model, serial and purchase details are read off it and filled in for you to check.
- Your items are checked every day against Health Canada, the US CPSC and the OECD’s international recall portal, and a match is flagged on the item and in your inbox.
- Homedrawer can be installed on your phone and send push notifications. A summary of the whole house arrives on the first of the month, weekly if you prefer.
- One tap makes a PDF inventory of a home, room by room, with photos and values, and everything exports as JSON. Passkeys can replace your password. A backup is taken every night.
More than one home
- A person can keep several homes — a cabin, a rental, the parents’ place — and switch between them.
Homedrawer opens
- One place for what you own, what it is covered by, when it needs attention and where the paperwork is: items in rooms, warranties with a countdown, maintenance schedules with suggestions per category, a private document vault, search, and reminders by email.
- Invite up to five people to your household. Everyone sees the same home; owners and admins organise, members add and complete.
- Every change shows who made it and when, and the household has an activity feed.