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The home room

When I own my data, I can… keep my house in order.

The household: what you own, what needs doing, and how the house runs.

The desk is the center of the household. It holds the money, the closet, other things you keep track of, security, and how itsadoor itself is set up.

Money is private, so it starts in the locking drawer. When you want to work on the budget, it leaves the drawer and comes to the desk, after you pass the second lock. This site never shows an amount.

The wardrobe holds what you wear. If you start keeping track of what you own, it can grow into a walk-in closet.

This is what the room is for. What has actually been built is on What exists today. To see this room with pictures, open the home room.

What stands in the room

A new home starts empty. When you pick home as your purpose, these objects stand in the main room. Every start has the first four. This purpose adds a wardrobe.

Call button

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The call button is how you ask itsadoor for help, and it knows which room you pressed it in. Here, that is the home room.

On the picture version it hangs on the wall just to the right of the front door, drawn large, with its name under it, and a smaller one with the word “Call” is in the band at the top. Both open the guide.

It never grows. It is the same in every room.

Small desk

edit documents

With AI: it will find and summarize what you wrote.

The small desk is where the household is kept in order. In this room it shows the household budget first, then inventory, then your to-do list.

The three views it shows first, and “add a view” for the rest:

Household budget
Bills, what is due, and a simple budget, opening only through the second lock.
Inventory
What you own, where it is, and when something needs looking after.
To-do
Chores and named lists, like packing.

How it can grow: small desk, then bigger desk, then office.

Kinds you can see from here: Documents (work on it), Data collections (catch and touch up), Spreadsheets (catch and touch up), Files & packets (catch and touch up), Calendars (work on it), Reference libraries (work on it) , and 25 more. Everything you can keep says where each kind lives. A kind lives in one place and can be seen from many.

On your phone:

  • These open in the Desk phone app.
  • The Desk phone app handles written documents today. It has only run on a test iPhone on a computer.
  • This picture shows the plan. Only Call works here. Not finished yet

Mini fridge

manage calendar, notes and to-dos

With AI: it will line up your day each morning.

The mini fridge holds food and what the house is running low on. It can grow into a full fridge, and then a kitchen.

The three views it shows first, and “add a view” for the rest:

Shopping list
What needs buying, tied to what you already have and what your meals need.
Inventory
What is in the house, and what is running low.
Meals
Recipes, the week’s meals, and the shopping list they make.

How it can grow: mini fridge, then fridge, then kitchen.

Kinds you can see from here: Documents (work on it), Data collections (catch and touch up), Calendars (work on it), Spreadsheets (catch and touch up), Forms (work on it), Classes & courses (work on it) , and 23 more. Everything you can keep says where each kind lives. A kind lives in one place and can be seen from many.

On your phone:

  • These open in the Fridge phone app.
  • The Fridge phone app is not finished yet. Not finished yet
  • This picture shows the plan. Only Call works here. Not finished yet

Locking drawer

locked health and money records

With AI: it will work here only while the drawer is open.

The locking drawer is the lockbox, and it asks for a second lock every time you open it. Health and money start inside, so Robin’s money stays unseen here.

How it can grow: locking drawer, then cabinet.

Kinds you can see from here: Spreadsheets (catch and touch up), Data collections (catch and touch up), PDFs (catch and touch up), Forms (work on it), Calendars (work on it), Computational notebooks (look and mark) . Everything you can keep says where each kind lives. A kind lives in one place and can be seen from many.

On your phone:

  • These open in the Desk phone app.
  • The Desk phone app handles written documents today. It has only run on a test iPhone on a computer.
  • This picture shows the plan. Only Call works here. Not finished yet

Wardrobe

list what you own

With AI: it will note upkeep and what to restock.

The wardrobe holds what you own and wear. It can grow into a walk-in closet.

The three views it shows first, and “add a view” for the rest:

Look
Your clothes, what to wear, and how it felt to wear them, about comfort and never about how you look.
Inventory
Each thing you own, where it is, and what shape it is in.
Shopping list
What you need to replace or add.

How it can grow: wardrobe, then walk-in closet.

Kinds you can see from here: Data collections (catch and touch up), Documents (work on it), Files & packets (catch and touch up), Spreadsheets (catch and touch up), PDFs (catch and touch up), Images & painting (catch and touch up) , and 2 more. Everything you can keep says where each kind lives. A kind lives in one place and can be seen from many.

On your phone:

  • These are kept by the hub phone app, which lends one document at a time to a work app.
  • Only the Desk phone app exists, for written documents. It has only run on a test iPhone on a computer.
  • This picture shows the plan. Only Call works here. Not finished yet

Tray by the front door

documents out on your phone

With AI: it will show which documents are out and when loans end.

This is the tray by the door. On the phone it is called “Handed out”. It lists the documents the hub has lent to a work app, says when each loan ends, and takes it back. It has been run on the iPhone simulator only, never on a real phone.

Taking it back ends the loan now. The work app cannot open the document again, and anything typed there that was not handed back is dropped. It cannot unread what the work app already read.

Not finished yet The backpack will hang on a hook here, beside the tray. It is the one place for what you download onto the device you carry. Each device has its own backpack. You set how long an item stays, and when the time runs out it leaves the device and stays in the house.

What the call button will do here

Not finished yet

The app has no AI in it yet. This is what the call button is being built to do. Local means it will run on your own computer. Private means what you ask will stay in your home.

  • In the living room, home At the morning and evening check-in at the call button, it will surface life information from your own documents: what is on today, what you said you would do, and what you have not looked at in a while. Here that means what needs restocking, what is on the shopping list and what the house needs doing. It will not open the lockbox’s money view unless you pass the second lock.
  • At the desk It will help you edit documents: suggest a template for what you are writing, fill in fields you can accept or change, and answer “what did I write about this?” from your own documents. It will not change a document by itself: what it suggests is a draft until you accept it.
  • At the fridge It will help with what is coming up: adjust a time block in your planner, tell you honestly whether you can fit something in, and bring up the next to-do and the next step of a routine. It will not make a commitment for you.
  • At the locking drawer It will work on your health and money records only while you have the drawer open, after the second lock. itsadoor may suggest which kinds of record belong in the drawer. It will not look inside while the drawer is closed, and it will never choose which single items go in.
  • At the wardrobe It will help you list what you own: record upkeep or a need to restock, and mark an item bought. It will not buy or throw away anything.
  • At the tray It will help you see which documents are out on your phone and when each loan ends. It will not hand a document out or take one back without you.
  • At your house, outside It will help with sharing: pick one finished piece to share, and turn a good moment into a short postcard draft. It will not share anything for you: you publish or close it yourself.
  • At the stoop It will help you pick one finished piece to share, mark it open or closed, and shape drafts and good moments for the people you share with. It will not publish for you: you publish or close it yourself.
  • At the doorbell plate It will help you follow up on something you promised a person you are connected to, and look over your card to give out. It will not connect you to anyone or answer a request for you.
  • At the mailbox It will help you write a postcard and look it over before you send it. It will not send anything: nothing leaves until you send it yourself.
  • On the street It will help you remember what has passed between you and a person you are connected to. It will not look into anyone else’s house: another person’s house is seen from the outside only.
  • At the backyard The backyard is for meeting the people you are connected to, and it is not built. When it is, the call button will help you get ready to meet them. It will not join a meeting for you.

How things here grow

In the app nobody picks a size of home. Each object grows when you want it to, on its own path, and can always go back. Nothing prompts you. On the picture version of this room, a control called “See it grow” shows the same objects at three steps named studio, house and mansion. Those three words belong to the website only.

The 3D house Not finished yet The same home, as a house you walk through in three dimensions.

Your house, outside the front door

The front door leads out to “Your house”, the front of your house. The place you stand is the stoop at first. It becomes the porch and then the veranda as sharing grows, and each size shares with more people: 1, 5, 10.

On the picture version, walking out opens it on a floating page over the living room, with the room still showing around it. Your front door stands at the top of the steps. Your figure walks down them, and pressing the door walks the figure back up and in. After the steps come the doorbell plate, the mailbox, the path and the gate, in the app’s order.

The doorbell plate holds the people you are connected to. The mailbox holds postcards. The path leads to the neighborhood, with one house for each person you are connected with. The gate leads to the backyard.

The stoop

share drafts and good moments

With AI: it will help you pick one finished piece to share.

The stoop is the first size of the place you stand to share. The app calls the first size “Front step”. This website calls it the stoop. It shows three views first, out on the stoop:

Porch
Pick one finished piece, mark it open as a card on the porch, and close it later.
Good moments
Collect the good things from your days, and share a few with someone who matters by postcard, so the reply comes from a person.
Drafts
Turn thoughts into a letter, an essay, a story, a report or a guide, working from an outline.

Who each size shares with

Not finished yet

  • The stoop shares with one person at a time.
  • The porch shares with a group of up to 5.
  • The veranda shares with a group of up to 10.

Out front

  • Doorbell plate contacts and requests to connect With AI: it will help you follow up on what you promised. The people you are connected to, requests, your card to give out and a way to add someone's card.
  • Mailbox send and receive postcards With AI: it will help you write, and you send. Postcards you write and receive. Its flag is up while something is waiting to go. The mailbox cannot send or receive anything in this build. Nothing was lost. Not finished yet Sending and receiving between homes is not finished yet.
  • Path walk to the neighborhood With AI: it will remember what passed, and will not look into anyone’s house. Leads along the street, to the houses of the people you are connected to. It leads to the neighborhood, and it will lead on to places people host. Not finished yet Leading on to places people host is not finished yet.
  • Neighborhood One house for each person you are connected with, between a street lamp and a tree. The street is empty until someone is connected. Live presence and delivery between homes are not finished yet. Not finished yet Live presence and delivery are not finished yet.
  • Gate go to the backyard With AI: when the backyard is built, it will help you get ready. Leads out to the backyard, where spaces will be. The backyard has a tree, a bench and a fence and nothing else yet.
  • Inviting people Asking someone into a shared property. What it does is not finished yet, and it has no drawing yet. Not finished yet
  • A place you host A separate room you will create and run on your own server, for the people you invite. It will stay invitation only. You will be able to sell goods there. The seller brings their own way to be paid; itsadoor never handles the payment. Not finished yet Read about it

Nothing is sent from this website. In the app, the mailbox cannot send or receive anything in this build, and sealing a copy for another home is not yet reachable from the app.

In the backyard

  • Guest visits Seeing the houses of people you are connected to, as a guest. Not finished yet
  • Meeting spaces Meeting with those people in a shared space. Not finished yet

The rooms things can grow into

On the picture version, “See it grow” at its last step turns each thing that can become a room into a door with the room’s name on it. Walking through the door opens that room on a floating page over the living room, with the living room still showing around it. This is what stands in each room.

  • Office drafts, notebook and decisions With AI: it will help you edit drafts and weigh a decision. Writing, planning and keeping the household. Stands in it: Desk, Whiteboard, Filing. Desk shows Drafts, Notebook, Journal and 10 more. Whiteboard shows Canvas, Decisions, Goals and 1 more. Filing shows Papers, Inventory, Shopping list and 4 more.
  • Kitchen meals, shopping and plans With AI: it will help you plan meals and keep the shopping list. Actions, schedules and commitments. Stands in it: Fridge, Counter, Pantry. Fridge shows To-do, Planner, Goals and 9 more. Counter shows Meals, Routines, Exercise. Pantry shows Inventory, Shopping list, Papers.
  • Walk-in closet wardrobe, inventory and papers With AI: it will help you keep what you own and its papers. Possessions, upkeep and access. Stands in it: Wardrobe, Things I own, Papers, Devices. Wardrobe shows Look, Mirror. Things I own shows Inventory, Shopping list. Papers shows Papers. Devices shows Devices.

The lockbox

The lockbox has a second lock that you pass every time, even to look at your own data. Health and money start inside it, and you choose what else goes in.

Robin’s example

Example data. Robin is invented.

A new home starts empty. Then the room fills in. The situation switch changes what Robin’s things say. It never changes the room. Pick a situation to read what Robin’s things say in it. On the picture version, choosing a situation puts a small note above each object whose lines changed, and a line on the wall says what changed.

Living alone

Household budget

Not shown. This view opens only through the lockbox.

Inventory

  • Ladder: in the garage, good shape
  • Drill: on the shelf by the door
  • Bike: needs a new inner tube
  • Seedling trays: on the back step
  • Blender: warranty ends in March

To-do

  • Water the seedlings (done)
  • Buy lumber for the garden beds
  • Send the newsletter draft to Sam
  • Fix the squeaky back door
  • Call Priya on Sunday

Shopping list

  • Lumber for two garden beds
  • Tomato stakes
  • Coffee
  • Oats
  • Light bulbs

Meals

  • Monday: soup and bread
  • Tuesday: rice and vegetables
  • Wednesday: pasta with tomatoes
  • Thursday: leftovers
  • Friday: tacos

Look

  • Gray sweater: warm and soft
  • Rain jacket: keeps the rain out, a little heavy
  • Work boots: good for the garden
  • Blue shirt: comfortable all day
Having a partner

Household budget

Not shown. This view opens only through the lockbox.

Inventory

  • Ladder: in the garage, good shape
  • Drill: on the shelf by the door
  • Bike: needs a new inner tube
  • Seedling trays: on the back step
  • Blender: warranty ends in March

To-do

  • Water the seedlings (done)
  • Buy lumber for the garden beds
  • Send the newsletter draft to Sam
  • Pick a movie with Jo for Friday
  • Call Priya on Sunday

Shopping list

  • Lumber for two garden beds
  • Tomato stakes
  • Coffee
  • Jo’s favorite tea
  • Light bulbs

Meals

  • Monday: soup and bread
  • Tuesday: rice and vegetables
  • Wednesday: pasta, Jo cooks
  • Thursday: leftovers
  • Friday: tacos

Look

  • Gray sweater: warm and soft
  • Rain jacket: keeps the rain out, a little heavy
  • Work boots: good for the garden
  • Blue shirt: comfortable all day
Raising kids

Household budget

Not shown. This view opens only through the lockbox.

Inventory

  • Ladder: in the garage, good shape
  • Drill: on the shelf by the door
  • Bike: needs a new inner tube
  • Seedling trays: on the back step
  • Blender: warranty ends in March

To-do

  • Water the seedlings (done)
  • Buy lumber for the garden beds
  • Sign Ada’s school form
  • Pack Theo’s swim bag
  • Call Priya on Sunday

Shopping list

  • Lumber for two garden beds
  • Tomato stakes
  • Lunch snacks
  • Glue sticks for Ada’s project
  • Light bulbs

Meals

  • Monday: soup and bread
  • Tuesday: rice and vegetables
  • Wednesday: pasta with tomatoes
  • Thursday: leftovers
  • Friday: tacos, and Ada and Theo build their own

Look

  • Gray sweater: warm and soft
  • Rain jacket: keeps the rain out, a little heavy
  • Work boots: good for the garden
  • Blue shirt: comfortable all day
Caring for a parent

Household budget

Not shown. This view opens only through the lockbox.

Inventory

  • Ladder: in the garage, good shape
  • Drill: on the shelf by the door
  • Bike: needs a new inner tube
  • Seedling trays: on the back step
  • Blender: warranty ends in March

To-do

  • Water the seedlings (done)
  • Buy lumber for the garden beds
  • Pick up Mom’s library books
  • Fix the light on Mom’s porch
  • Call Priya on Sunday

Shopping list

  • Lumber for two garden beds
  • Tomato stakes
  • Mom’s favorite bread
  • Birdseed for Mom’s feeder
  • Light bulbs

Meals

  • Monday: soup and bread
  • Tuesday: rice and vegetables
  • Wednesday: pasta with tomatoes
  • Friday: tacos
  • Sunday: lunch at Mom’s

Look

  • Gray sweater: warm and soft
  • Rain jacket: keeps the rain out, a little heavy
  • Work boots: good for the garden
  • Blue shirt: comfortable all day