This document assumes that you’ve successfully signed into the HomeHero application. If that isn’t so, please see Getting Started page.
Below are examples of what you might see once you populate the HomeHero app with some of your entities. Although we support light and dark themes (see Changing the theme for details) all examples will be in one theme.
Example of the main view in the light theme.
Example of the main view in the dark theme.
By entity, we mean either Item, or Location, or Schedule, or anything actually. We’d probably refer to these as “items” but for us, Items mean something specific so we have to avoid that word in loose sense.
A quick start for creating most entities is by clicking the Plus icon (➕) in the top right corner. On clicking, a pop up should show up asking what entity you’d like to add.
An Item is anything that you think is worth keeping track of. Literally, anything. It can be as big as a “car” or as small as “yarn hook” or “drill bit”. The only constraint is on the name; there can be only one item with a specific name.
Hint: If you care about keeping track of quantity of an identical item, create Item Type with Quantity (number) property.
By default, each Item can be augmented with Tags, Notes (loose text), Images and Files. Tags are useful for searching. A Note is any relevant text, including links to other websites. Images and files help to quickly reference something on the go. See below an example of a Baby Stroller.
If you like to keep track of extra information, for example the Equipment section in the example below, see Item Type to learn more about them.
To enable easier search each Item can be placed in a specific Location . In the example below, the Baby Stroller is stored in the Living Room.
Baby Stroller - an Item example.
Location is anything that can contain Items or other Locations. It’s intended to help quickly check what is where. An example of location is House. A House then can have sub-location like Living Room or Bathroom, and it can also contain some Items which are often all-around-the-place.
Location example - Bedroom.