Upkeep

Recurring house, vehicle and pet maintenance

Upkeep is for things that keep coming due: furnace filters, oil changes, flea meds, smoke detector batteries. Each item has how often it repeats and when it was last done. Check one off and Tagged works out the next date for you.

When to use it

• House jobs on a schedule, like changing the furnace filter every 3 months.
• Vehicle service, like an oil change every 6 months.
• Pet care, like monthly flea meds for both dogs.
• Anything you’d otherwise have to remember the last date of.

Open Upkeep

The page has Maintenance and Chores under the title. This article is about Maintenance; see Chores for the weekly grid.

Add an item

2. Type the title, like “Replace furnace filter”.
3. Tap the For row and pick House, Vehicle, Pet or Other. For a vehicle or pet, tick which one (or more), or tap Add vehicle or Add pet to add a new one. Tap Done.
4. Set Repeats every: a number and days, weeks, months or years.
5. Set Last done. If it’s never been done, set First due instead.
6. Under Parts or supplies, pick Auto-ship (shows up on its own), Order it (you buy it) or No parts (just labor).
7. Paste a Where to buy it link if there is one, like the filter’s product page.
8. Add notes, like the filter size or where spares are kept.
9. Tap Add item.

Check it off

1. When you do the job, tap the round check on its row.
2. The check turns green and the row reads Done today with the next date. Today becomes “last done” and the next due date moves forward by the repeat.
3. A message with Undo shows for a few seconds if you checked the wrong one.

Upkeep that comes due also shows in Upcoming, and you can check it off there too.

Read the list

• Late items are at the top in red, like “3 days late”.
• This week items are in amber.
• Coming up has the rest. On a phone it shows three, then Show N more.
• The tabs All, House, Vehicles and Pets (and Other when you have one) narrow the list. Vehicles and Pets let you pick one vehicle or pet.
• A thin bar on each row shows how far through its repeat it is.

On a computer, click a row to see its details on the right: next due, last done and by whom, the date after that, its parts and link, a Done today button, and Recently done. Double-click it to open the full item.

Change or delete an item

1. Open the item: tap its row on a phone, or double-click it on a computer.
2. Change anything. It saves as you go.
3. To delete it, tap ⋯, then Delete item. It asks first, and it can’t be undone.

Add vehicles and pets

1. Open Settings → Upkeep.
2. Add each vehicle and pet by name.

Deleting a vehicle or pet keeps its items, just without that name.

Questions

Still stuck? Send feedback from the ? menu at the bottom of the app bar on a computer. Back to the help center