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Household Inventory

Household is the sibling view next to Tasks, Focus, and Routines in the workspace navigation bar. It's a shared list of the things your household keeps stocked — groceries, supplies, anything with a "we're about to run out" moment — so restocking becomes a task instead of a surprise.

How To Open It​

  1. Open the main workspace.
  2. Select Household.

Household inventory panel showing Milk

What An Item Tracks​

Each household item can have:

  • A name and optional category (e.g. "Dairy").
  • A quantity.
  • An optional expiry date, for items with a hard "use by."
  • An optional shelf-life in days, for items you restock on a rough cycle rather than a printed expiry date, measured from when it was last restocked.
  • An optional low-stock threshold, for items you track by count rather than freshness (paper towels, batteries, light bulbs) — PrimeCal flags the item once quantity drops to or below this number.
  • A shared people group, so the whole household sees and manages the same list instead of everyone keeping a private one.

Example: The Lates keep "Milk" in their shared inventory — category Dairy, a 7-day shelf life, and last restocked 4 days ago. With 3 days of shelf life left, Milk is heading into the window where PrimeCal will flag it for restocking. Separately, they track "Paper towels" by count: quantity 6, low-stock threshold 2 — no expiry date needed at all.

Automatic Restock Tasks​

PrimeCal scans household items on an hourly basis and creates a restock task automatically when an item is:

  • marked used up, or
  • within 3 days of its expiry date, or
  • within 3 days of exhausting its shelf life (last restocked date + shelf-life days), or
  • at or below its low-stock threshold (quantity-based items).

The created task is titled Restock: <item name> and appears in your normal Tasks board like any other task. Once a restock task exists for an item, PrimeCal won't create a duplicate — it waits until that task is resolved before scanning the item again.

Marking An Item Used Up Or Consuming Some Of It​

For an item you finish in one go, mark it used up. For an item you use a bit at a time — paper towels, batteries — use the -1 (consume) button instead so the quantity stays accurate as you go.

  1. Open Household.
  2. Find the item.
  3. Select Mark used up (all gone) or -1 (used one unit).

Marking used up, or consuming down to zero, raises the restock task immediately instead of waiting for the next hourly scan.

Good Household Habits​

  • Set a shelf-life in days for anything you restock on a rhythm (milk, coffee, filters) rather than tracking an exact expiry date.
  • Set a low-stock threshold for anything you track by count (paper towels, batteries, light bulbs) and use -1 as you go, instead of only ever marking the whole item used up at once.
  • Use a shared people group for anything the whole household draws from, so restocking isn't left to just one person to notice.
  • Mark items used up (or consume them down) as soon as you finish them — it's the fastest way to get an accurate restock task instead of waiting on the hourly scan.

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