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Chore link builder

Type a chore, say how often it comes round and where it lives, and get a link and a QR code that plant it in SpickSpan on any phone.

The app’s own suggestions, with the intervals it suggests. Change anything after.
How often?
Every
104 weeks (two years) at most. A week counts as 7 days, a month as 30.
Which room?
A room with the same name on the phone gets the chore; otherwise the app makes the room.
Its icon

How it looks in SpickSpan

Your chore Every 2 weeks

Give the chore a name.

The phone that opens the link picks the chore’s plant; it can be changed there.

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How we worked this out

The link carries the chore itself: its name, how often it comes round, its room and the room’s icon, its icon and your note. It carries no sender name, so the app won’t offer to tell anyone when it’s done, and no plant: the phone that opens the link picks one, and you can change it there.

How often is either whole days, from 1 day to 730 (two years), or a number of uses, from 1 to 500, of a counter you name, like dishwasher cycles. A week counts as 7 days and a month as 30, as the app counts them. The quick starts are the app’s own suggested chores, with the intervals the app suggests.

A room’s icon only applies when the room is new on that phone; if it already has a room of that name, the chore joins it as it is.

The chore sits in the part of the link after the #. Browsers separate that part from the address before they ask a server for the page, and only the browser reads it1. This page builds the link on your device and sends it nowhere.

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