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Home maintenance

A home maintenance schedule your AI keeps: what's due, when it was last done, and a monthly checklist in Amber Notes.

For homeowners and renters who forget the filter until it's a problem.

Free. Paste the prompt into ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes connected: it creates the note, then fills it in. For Claude Code, use its tab below. No Amber Notes yet? Download it for Mac.

Today

Home maintenance

The jobs that keep a home working, how often they're due, and when you last did them.

TaskEveryLast doneNext due

This month

Who to call

  • Plumber:
  • Electrician:

Appliances

Tell your AI

First, look for a note called "Home maintenance" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Home", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types). Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Home maintenance". When I tell you about a recurring job, add a row with log_table_row: Task, Every, Last done and Next due as yyyy-mm-dd. At the start of a month, when I ask, read the table with read_table and add what's due this month under "This month" as a checklist with append_to_note. When I say I've done one, update its Last done and Next due with edit_note and tick it with set_checklist_item. Keep model numbers and warranty dates I mention under "Appliances".

```markdown
Home maintenance

The jobs that keep a home working, how often they're due, and when you last did them.

<!-- pane-table: Task=text; Every=choice Month|3 months|6 months|Year; Last done=text; Next due=text -->
| Task | Every | Last done | Next due |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |

## This month

## Who to call
- Plumber:
- Electrician:

## Appliances
```

Paste it into a chat in ChatGPT with Amber Notes turned on. That chat keeps it; paste it again when you start a new one.

Then just talk to it

  • Add: clean the dishwasher filter every month, last done 1 September.
  • What's due in October?
  • The boiler was serviced today.

What you'll get

The same note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.

30 September 2026

Home maintenance

The jobs that keep a home working, how often they're due, and when you last did them.

TaskEveryLast doneNext due
Clean the dishwasher filterMonth2026-09-012026-10-01
Test the smoke alarms3 months2026-07-052026-10-05
Service the boilerYear2025-10-122026-10-12

This month

  • Clean the dishwasher filter (due 1 Oct)
  • Test the smoke alarms (due 5 Oct)
  • Service the boiler (due 12 Oct)

Who to call

  • Plumber:
  • Electrician:

Appliances

  • Dishwasher: Bosch SMV4HTX31E, warranty until March 2028

How to set it up

  1. Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can write the note.
  2. Paste the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. It creates the "Home maintenance" note in your Home folder, if you don't have it yet.
  3. Talk to your AITell it what happened, in your own words. It fills in the note, and you see every change in Amber Notes.

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