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Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by kstrauser »

lstamour wrote: post #15
eddieroger wrote: post #4

Todoist. My wife and I can share lists, assign tasks, track completion, all sorts of stuff. It’s not perfect, but I’m really mostly happy with it. Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our li…

1Password family has been hard to get everyone on… one or two people yes, but not the entire family. YouTube Premium is probably the only thing everyone in the family uses significantly and frequently… but mostly because they don’t notice it. Netflix, Disney+ maybe go without saying. Alexa/Google/HomePods too, mostly for music playback. Spotify Premium has excellent family features also. Background but storage from G…

A key to 1Password Family: make sure that's the only way you share passwords. Kid wants to watch Netflix? 1Password.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by msadowski »

We bought Tody before they changed to a subscription model. The app allows you to create a task list for cleaning of each of the rooms with a desired repetition period for a given task (for example mop the kitchen floor every 3 weeks). I found that having a list of tasks that are overdue in the house helps a lot with the mental burden of cleaning.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by kstrauser »

kmano8 wrote: post #10

Fantastical family plan, hands down.

How are you using it that makes it worthwhile for you? I used Fantastical for a long time until their recent rate hike. All of our family scheduling works nicely through shared iCloud calendars, though.

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Post by Descon »

ljnelson wrote: post #5

AnyList ( https://www.anylist.com/ ). Streamlines grocery shopping and the paid version is absolutely worth the money. ~$15/year for a family.

Love anylist - bummer about Google assistant dropping them. Almost enough to make me switch to alexa

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Post by SlightlyLeftPad »

Google photos, I have all devices syncing photos to one place and now I don’t need to worry about did in-law A remember to backup their phone when they inevitably lose it at the grocery store. Arguably the only remotely important thing we have on our phones is photos and maybe chat history but it’s not earth shattering to lose that. Despite having more photos of ourselves than any other generation ever, It’s still soul crushing to lose family photos.

That said, I’ve been gradually losing trust in Google storage services so I’m searching for alternatives (and not finding anything remotely as good unfortunately).

Key features I live by * search by ocr, object, location, face * multi-platform sync * originals storage * auto-face match * duplicate detection

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by garciasn »

ljnelson wrote: post #5

AnyList ( https://www.anylist.com/ ). Streamlines grocery shopping and the paid version is absolutely worth the money. ~$15/year for a family.

We have been using AnyList for what seems like 10+ years now and I, too, recommend it to anyone and everyone.

We had the pay-for version for a year or two but it works just fine without as well!

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