How things get in
Finish a build and it parks itself in My Garage with its manual and its care schedule. You can add the rest by hand: the washer, the dishwasher, the espresso machine, the PC. The garage's own headline is the whole idea: "Everything you own, with its manual."
Each item gets its care guides by what it is, never by a broad category, so a washer gets the drain filter and not the fridge's water filter. These are the 14 guides in the app today:
| Item | Job | When | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front-load washer | Clean the drain pump filter | every 30 days | 10 min |
| Dishwasher | Clean the filter and spray arms | every 30 days | 8 min |
| Espresso machine | Descale the boiler | every 60 days | 25 min |
| Refrigerator | Replace the water filter | every 180 days | 5 min |
| Furnace or AC | Change the air filter | May and October | 5 min |
| Dryer | Clear the lint duct | April | 20 min |
| Flat-pack furniture | Re-tighten the joints | 14 days after the build, then yearly | 5 min |
| Desktop PC | Dust the filters and fans | every 90 days | 15 min |
| Phone | Check the battery health and the port | every 180 days | 5 min |
| Laptop | Clear the vents and check the fan | every 180 days | 10 min |
| Pre-lit tree | Find the dead section | November | 20 min |
| Artificial tree | Take the tree down and store it | January | 40 min |
| Outdoor string lights | Hang them safely and stop GFCI trips | November | 30 min |
| Yard inflatable | Check the blower and tie-downs | November | 15 min |
The strip
At the top of My Garage sits a strip of twelve months, this month first. Each job is a chip with the item's icon, the job and its minutes. A done chip carries a tick, a late one an amber edge and the word "late", and the ones due soon are outlined. Tap a chip and the guide opens for that item, with a "due by" line and a calendar file you can add to your own calendar. Mark it done and that date is closed.
A month with nothing in it says so: "Nothing due. Enjoy the quiet." Seasonal jobs sit in their months. A tree's dead-section check lands in November, and the garage never asks for a November from before you owned the tree.
When nothing is paused and nothing is due, the home screen offers the next moment instead: "Next up in November: find the dead section." Under it come the character's line for that job and month, "Plug it in before you fluff it.", the minutes, the first tool, and one button. It reads "Do it now" inside a week and "Do it early" further out.
Months on time, not a streak
The garage used to show a percent ring that turned red. Now it shows twelve dots for the last twelve months. A dot is green when every job done that month was done within seven days of its date, amber when one was late or something due that month is still waiting, and grey when nothing was due. The line under the dots reads like "9 of 10 months on time", followed by what is late and a "Fix it now" button, or "Everything on schedule. Mog is pleased."
We left out a streak on purpose. A streak fits something you do every day, like a language lesson. Care is monthly at most: the washer filter once a month, the dryer duct once a year. Nobody builds daily, and a streak would nag. Miss one day and it resets, which teaches you to stop looking. Months on time forgives a late week and still counts the year.
There is no red anywhere in the garage. A late filter is a nudge, not a failure. A job done on time earns a short thank-you from the character, not points, and milestones stay light: the first build, the first fix, three builds, the first job done on time.
What it costs, and what is next
In the app today the garage and its schedule live on your device. Pro, at $9.99 a month, keeps My Garage in your account with maintenance reminders, along with 120 Live minutes a month. Reminders by push and email, in the character's voice, come with the cloud build:
"Meg here. The washer filter is due Thursday."
They are opt-in, and we aim for no more than two a month. For the washer itself, the filter job is one of the common questions, and the bookcase's re-tighten closes its library page.