Chore Checklist helps you to manage chores at home or other places. It records chores' completion date and calculate next due date based on your preference. You can also set reminder for each chore.
It comes with a pre-loaded check list which has routines, such as "Daily Routine", "Weekly Routine", "Monthly Routine" and etc. You may edit them or add new routine/chores.
Recent release notes:
5/31/2011 V1.4.9
- Improve performance when check off a chore
- Fix bug in checking off all chores in a routine
- Allow customizing text size in widget
5/27/2011 V1.4.8
- Fix date parsing issue for non-English locale
- Fix issue with alarms when there are more than one daily routines
- Allow moving to SD card (NOTE: if you choose to move to SD card, you will not be able to use widgets. If later you changed your mind, you will have to uninstall and reinstall the app)
- Other minor bug fixes
4/15/2011 V1.4.7
- Fix "Force Close" issue when choose to show chores overdue and due today only
4/11/2011 V1.4.6
- Add menu option to display chores overdue and due today only.
- Add setting to allow users to disable widget customization if they have issue loading the widget
4/8/2011 V1.4.5
- Add widget customization back (Full version only)
- Note: widget customization may not work on some devices. If it doesn't work for you, please contact us. We will either fix it or refund your money.
4/7/2011 V1.4.4
- Removed the change for widget customization since it causing "Problem Loading Widget" issue on some devices
4/4/2011 V1.4.3
- Fixed issue in resetting progress
- Allow changing background and text colors of the widget(Full version only)
3/28/2011 V1.4.2
- Fixed "Force Close" issue when set reminder in routine
- Other minor bug fixes
3/25/2010 V1.4.1
- Added date/time to notification
- Added toast for alarm date/time
- Added preference setting for changing the background and text colors for all the routines and chores (full version only)
- Added better color picker
- Fixed widget display issue
- Fixed notification issue
- Other bug fixes
3/17/2011 V1.3.4
3/16/2011 V1.3.3
- Add display options to allow user to choose which routine to be displayed in the widget and which routine to be always expanded in the list
- Allow carriage return in notes
- Do not pop-up date picker when complete one-time chores
- Fix bugs in auto resetting progress
- Fix display issue when screen orientation changes
- Fix bugs in multiple notification and clear notification bar when a chore is completed
- Other bug fixes
User Guide
Add Routine
To add new routines, click on "Menu"->"New Routine". You may enter frequency which is how often you want to do the chores under this routine. For example, you can set the routine as every 2 days, every 2 weeks, every 3 months and etc.
Edit/Delete Routine
To edit/delete a routine, press and hold it's name. Choose "Edit"/"Delete" from the popup menu. You may also set the completion date, due date and reminder for all the existing chores on a routine.
Add Chore
To add new chore under a routine, press and hold a routine, then select "New Chore" from pop-up menu.
Edit/Delete Chore
To edit/delete a chore, press and hold it's name. Choose "Edit"/"Delete" from the popup menu. You may edit the name, notes, progress and etc.
If you entered notes for a chore, an information icon will be displayed on the list view. To get a quick view of the notes, you may touch the icon, a toast window will show up with the notes.
If the progress is set, a progress bar will also show on the list view.
Complete/Skip Chore
When check off a daily chore, the completion date will be set to today. When check off non-daily chore, a date selection window will popup to have you enter completion date. If the chore has a reminder, it will be re-calculated based on the next due date.
If a chore has passed its due date, you may choose to skip the chore instead of competing it. Tap and hold the chore. Choose "Skip" from popup menu. It will re-calculate the next due date without changing the completion date.
Day Patterns For Daily Routine(Full Version Only)
For chores under daily routine, you can now set which day of the week the chores need to be done. For example, you can choose only the weekdays or weekends, etc.
The day pattern will be displayed on the list view when it is set.
Set Reminder
For chores under daily routine, you can set the reminder to specific time of a day. It will automatically repeat daily. For other routines, the reminder will be set to relatively to the due date or specific time on the due date. It will not repeat until you complete/skip the chore. A clock icon will show on the list view when a chore has reminder set up.
Re-Order Chores/Routines
To re-order the chores under a routine, touch the left side of the check box and drag the item. You may also drag it to another routine. To re-order the routines, first collapse the list, then drag and drop by touching the left side of a routine.
You can sort the chores alphabetically or by due date.
Automatic Reset
Daily routine will be reset everyday. That is if you checked some items today, they will be unchecked tomorrow automatically.
Other routines' checkboxes will be unchecked half way towards the next due date.
Settings(Full Version Only)
There are several settings under Menu->More->Settings
You can change how it calculates the next due date. It defaults to use previous due date. That is if you have a weekly chore set to be done on every Sunday. The next due date will always be on Sunday. You may choose to calculate base on the completion date. So if you finished it on Tuesday, the next due date will be next Tuesday, not Sunday.
You can also change the starting day of a week if you are using day patterns for daily routine. It defaults to Sunday.
There are settings for default alarm ringtone and background colors.
Widget
This application has one widget in lite version and three different size widget in full version.
Edit List On Desktop
The list is in XML format under \sdcard\chorechecklist\. You may upload it to desktop and edit it using a text editor. Please make sure to only edit the name/notes and follow the exact format. If for some reason, the file is corrupted, you may delete it so the application can re-load the pre-defined list.