If someone had to step in, would they know what to do?
Homebook is a handbook for your household. You make it while everything is fine, so it's ready for the stretch when it isn't.
Your household runs on things only you know.
- Which breaker controls the garage.
- What bill still comes by mail.
- How to reset the router.
None of it is written down.
It never needed to be — until someone else is standing in your kitchen, guessing.
The moment it's needed is rarely the one you picture.
- A hospitalization.
- Recovering from surgery.
- A death.
- Caring for an aging parent.
- An unexpectedly long trip.
For a while, the household has to run without the person who runs it.
Questions Homebook answers:
- How do I relight the pilot light?
- Which account isn't on autopay?
- Which day does the trash go out?
- Who do I call if the sprinklers stop working?
- Where's the emergency key?
- Who else can get into the accounts?
How it works.
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Answer questions.
Homebook asks about the rooms, the routines and the accounts, a few at a time.
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Homebook writes the handbook.
Your answers come back as plain pages, in order, that someone else could actually follow.
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Share it if someone ever needs it.
Until then it sits there, and you add to it when something changes.
What happens to your information.
- Not sold or shared.
- No tracking.
- Export anytime.
- Delete anytime.
- No passwords stored.
It's early. Don't make it your only copy of anything.
An early private beta.
- A small number of households are using it.
- Sections are still being added. There are rough edges.
- No cost, and no obligation to keep going.
One favor
Use it as if it were already part of your household, and make a note when something feels confusing, missing, or wrong. Nothing needs sending — I'll follow up once you've lived with it a little.
If you've been invited
Your link is in the email I sent you. Lost it? Reply and I'll send another.