See who holds what. Hand it over when it’s their turn.

Every task Hermo finds gets filed into an ownership area. You decide who holds each one. When an area changes hands, the nudges change with it.

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Who holds what
February
R
Rowan
4 areas
๐ŸซSchool forms (kids) Sign the Y4 trip permission slip from a school email
๐ŸฉบMedical and healthy living (kids)
๐Ÿ“šHomework and school supplies
๐ŸงบLaundry
D
Dev
4 areas
๐Ÿ›’Groceriesyour turn · flips 28 Feb
๐Ÿ•๏ธSchool breaks (kids)
โšฝExtracurriculars: sports
๐Ÿ”งHome maintenance

From an email nobody read to a job somebody owns.

1

Tasks arrive on their own

Hermo reads the school and nursery emails and pulls out what needs doing. Send it a voice note or a photo on WhatsApp and that lands too.

2

Each one is filed into an ownership area

You write what an area covers in your own words, or start from the Fair Play deck. Hermo reads that description when it files, so what it finds in your email lands in the right area by itself.

3

You decide who holds it

The board shows every area, who holds it, and what is outstanding in it. Keep one, share it, or set it to rotate weekly, fortnightly or monthly.

4

The holder gets the nudges

Nudges and watcher alerts for an area go to whoever is holding it that week, not to whoever set it up.

The jobs nobody named are the ones that keep landing on the same person.

A board does not argue with you. It shows every area, what is outstanding in each, and the ones neither of you has picked up.

Rowan
February
๐ŸซSchool forms (kids)6 open
๐Ÿ•๏ธSchool breaks (kids)4 open
๐ŸฉบMedical and healthy living (kids)3 open
โšฝExtracurriculars: sports2 open
๐ŸงบLaundrynothing open
+5 more, 4 quiet
๐Ÿ“ฅNobody’s holding these yet3 to decide
๐ŸŽ‚ Birthdays๐Ÿ”ง Home maintenance๐ŸŽ’ School transitions

The work nobody claimed has a place to sit.

Areas neither of you has taken go in their own pile with a count against them, instead of quietly defaulting to whoever notices first. You assign them, or mark them as not applying to your household.

See the busy months coming.

Some months, everything seems to land at once. Hermo helps you see what’s coming, what’s piling up, and who’s carrying it, so you can rebalance before it becomes too much.

Both on the same page.

Nothing to relay at the end of the day, nothing to explain. Either of you can open the board and see exactly what the other sees.

Hermo does not score either of you, work out a split, or tell you it is unfair. It puts the work somewhere you can both see it. What you do about it is yours.

A handover is more than a name against a job.

Open an area and everything that comes with it is already written down, so nobody has to be briefed.

๐ŸซSchool forms (kids)RRowan holds it
What goes in it
Permission slips, trip payments, parents’ evening, anything the school emails asking for a reply.
Handover notes
Forms go back in the book bag, not the office. The real deadline is always the Friday before the one printed.
To-dos in this area
Sign the Y4 trip permission slipfrom a school email
Pay the £12 museum contributionfrom a school email
Nudges
Every Sunday, 7pm: check the book bag

What goes in it, in your words.

Areas are yours to name. Write what one covers and Hermo uses that description to decide what belongs there, so the filing matches how your household actually splits things.

Handover notes carry the detail.

The things only the holder knows: which deadline is the real one, where the forms go. Write them once and they stay with the area when it changes hands.

Nudges you set yourself.

Add a recurring nudge to an area and it arrives on WhatsApp at the day and time you pick. It follows the area, so after a handover it reaches the new holder instead.

Board ownership questions, answered.

Do we have to use Fair Play cards?

No. If your household already runs on the Fair Play deck you can start from it, but the areas are yours: rename them, merge two that overlap, or write your own. Hermo is not affiliated with Fair Play.

What happens when an area changes hands?

On the date shown, the holder changes. The to-dos, the handover notes and the nudges sitting in that area go with it.

Can I pick the exact date it changes hands?

You pick the rhythm, weekly, fortnightly or monthly, and who takes it first. Hermo works out the dates and shows the next one on the area. Daily areas can be split across the week instead.

Is the board on the free plan?

Yes. The board, the holders and the rotations are on every plan, Starter included. Auto-categorising is on Helper, £4/month.

Stop picking it all up because no one decided who should own it.

Put the areas somewhere you can both see them, decide who holds what, and hand one over when it is their turn.

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