Show tasks, chores and routines

Follow these steps in your own Denframe. This website never connects to your household, your accounts or your devices, and never asks for your credentials.

1. 1

   Open the Tasks page

   In Studio, open Sources, then Tasks. The page has a section for each task app, Microsoft To Do, Google Tasks and Home Assistant to-do, then Stars and rewards, then Denframe's list.

   Every one of them is optional. A household without a Google or Microsoft account keeps its tasks, routines and groceries in Denframe’s own list, and the wall draws them the same way.

2. 2

   Connect your task apps

   Each app’s section starts with a row such as Lists from Microsoft To Do. Choose Connect ▸ on it.

   • Microsoft To Do and Google Tasks open a read-only sign-in in another tab. Choose the Continue to Microsoft (or Google) button, sign in, come back and choose Check connection. Tick the Lists to read (the account’s default list starts ticked) and choose Connect To Do or Connect Google Tasks. Each is a connection of its own: disconnecting it leaves a calendar from the same account working.
   • Home Assistant to-do needs no sign-in: it reads through your Home Assistant connection. Tick the Lists to read and choose Save lists. Changes arrive as they happen. Later, Choose lists ▸ changes them.

   Denframe keeps each item’s title, status and due date. An item’s notes or description are never kept. Microsoft’s Flagged email list is never offered.

   Google lists Denframe once for calendars and tasks: removing it from your Google Account stops both. Disconnecting one of them in Denframe leaves the other working.

3. 3

   Give each list to a person

   Each list read has a row under its source. Choose whose it is with Person (Everyone, or a person) and what it is with List: To-dos, Groceries (see Keep a shopping list) or Routine steps. A new list starts as everyone’s to-dos. Only the household’s owner links lists.

   On a person’s list, Stars sets what each ticked item earns them (1 at first). Each row ends with a health line such as “3 open · read 2 minutes ago · every minute”.

   List	Read
   Shown on a screen	every 60 seconds (at most 30 lists in a household)
   Any other list	every 15 minutes
   A source near its daily limit (Microsoft 100,000 requests, Google 50,000)	every 15 minutes until midnight UTC

   A Tasks block mixes up to four task sources in one list, the soonest due first: choose them in the block’s Tasks from row in the dashboard editor.

4. 4

   Keep tasks in Denframe’s list

   Without an account, choose Use Denframe's list ▸ beside No Google or Microsoft account?. Then choose Add task:

   • Label, up to 60 characters, and Type: Task (or Grocery and Supply for the shopping list).
   • Assignee, and Repeats: One-off, Daily or Weekly with the days under Repeats on.
   • Due from and Due by: the days it is due.
   • Visibility: Public, Household or Private. A private task shows only to its assignee and the owner; on a screen it also needs its assignee in the list’s Audience and a dashboard that allows Private.
   • Private note, which is never shown on a screen.

   Choose Add task. Each task’s ⋯ offers Edit… and Remove; tick its circle to complete it. Below the list, Show up to sets how many tasks a dashboard shows at once (up to three), and Audience limits a dashboard to some people’s tasks.

   For a chore that comes round on its own, open Repeats and choose + Add routine: give it a Routine label, an Assignee, a time zone, Starts on, Ends on (optional), Routine repeats (Daily or Weekly), its Routine visibility and a Private setup note, then Add routine. A routine makes one dated task at a time; change the routine rather than its tasks.

   Denframe’s list holds up to 200 active tasks and 100 routines. Completed tasks are erased after 30 days.

5. 5

   Set up routines and stars

   A list from a task app linked as Routine steps is a routine, such as “Mia · Morning”, with one step per item, edited on the phone. Choose Steps… on its row to set the days it Runs on, and each step’s Picture, Stars and order. A step titled with x8 at the end counts eight a day. On the wall, the steps still to do today lead the Tasks block, and a tick counts for that day only; it is never written back to the app.

   Stars are optional and per person: turn on Collects stars in the person’s calendar details on the Calendar page. A person earns their list’s Stars for each item ticked, a routine step once a day, one star for a task of Denframe’s list they complete, and one for an event marked done on a calendar that Earns stars. An Undo takes the stars back.

   Under Stars and rewards the page shows each person’s balance, their next reward and the Streaks. Choose Add a reward, enter its Name, Cost in stars (1 to 100,000), who it is For and a Pictogram, and choose Save reward. Only the owner redeems a reward, with Redeem…; a screen never spends stars.

   Add a Stars block to a dashboard to show each person’s stars and what they can have now.

6. 6

   Let touch screens tick things off

   Items from a task app are read-only on the wall until you allow ticking. On the source’s ⋯, choose Allow ticking from screens…, sign in to the same account again in the other tab to allow changes, choose Check connection and then Allow ticking. Then turn on Ticking for each list screens may tick. A Home Assistant list that accepts updates needs only the switch.

   The screen must allow touch: in its settings, turn on Allow on-screen touch controls (requires a touch-capable screen). Ask before marking things done on this screen adds a question before every tick, so a passing hand does not tick someone’s list. See Keep a screen looking right.

   A tick is written to the app only if the item has not changed since the screen showed it, at most six a minute per screen, and is never queued for later. The wall says “Marking…” and then “Done · Undo” for ten seconds, or “Not marked · try again” if nothing came back.

   Google Tasks ticking isn’t offered yet: Google’s API cannot tell a repeating task from a one-off one, and that has not been checked on a real account. Google Tasks lists stay read-only.

7. 7

   Export or import tasks

   On the Tasks card’s ⋯, Export tasks… copies every task and shopping item not yet completed, repeating ones included, as JSON (tasks a routine made are left out), and Export routines… copies the routines. Paste them somewhere safe: they are household data.

   Import has no button. Send a document in the same format to POST /api/tasks/import with your Denframe token. One import holds at most 200 tasks, and it only adds: importing the same document twice makes duplicates, so check the list first.

   {
     "schema_version": 3,
     "tasks": [
       {
         "label": "Take out trash",
         "item_type": "task",
         "quantity": null,
         "note": null,
         "assignee_profile_id": null,
         "due_start": "2026-09-03",
         "due_end": "2026-09-03",
         "recurrence": "none",
         "recurrence_weekdays": null,
         "sensitivity": "household"
       }
     ]
   }

   schema_version must be 3. label is 1 to 60 characters; item_type is task, grocery or supply; quantity is up to 40 characters; sensitivity is public, household or private; due_end is on or after due_start; recurrence is none, daily or weekly, and a weekly task lists recurrence_weekdays from 0 (Monday) to 6 (Sunday). note is private and never shown on a screen.

8. 8

   Check it worked

   On a dashboard with a Tasks block, each person’s open items show due first, the undated last, up to the block’s Show up to. A list nobody is linked to says “Not on any wall · choose whose list it is” on its row.

   On a calendar view that draws days (every view but Next up), dated to-dos from lists linked as To-dos also appear on their day with an empty box and “To do”, and an overdue one sits on today. In privacy mode and on a Public dashboard, the block shows no items from task apps; tasks of Denframe’s list marked Public still show.