Email furniturewala@yahoo.com. Please say which iPhone you are using and which version of iOS is on it — Settings › General › About. Most problems turn out to be specific to one device or one OS version.
Tap + on the first screen. Only the name is required, and it should be whatever you actually call the place — “Home”, “the flat”, “Mum’s place”. That is what the list shows.
The type you choose sets the icon and decides whether the form asks for a unit number — apartments, condos and rentals do, houses and townhouses do not. It changes nothing else. The work you log is the same either way.
Swipe a property in the list for Edit and Delete, or use the … menu inside it. Deleting a property deletes everything logged against it, so the confirmation tells you how many entries are about to go. There is no undo.
Open a property and tap +. Only the title is required. Everything else — category, room, cost, who did it, guarantee, notes, photos — can be left blank or filled in later.
Leave it on Me and the entry reads as your own work. Choose Someone else and you get a name and a phone number, and the number becomes tappable on the finished entry. That is usually the reason people go looking for an old entry at all.
Cost is optional; leave it at zero for a job that cost nothing but your afternoon. The currency defaults to your region, and a new entry inherits whatever that property is already logged in. Nothing is ever converted between currencies — if one property’s log holds more than one, the totals say so underneath rather than quietly adding pounds to dollars.
Tap Add photos in the form. Pictures are downscaled on the way in, so a long log does not turn into a database you cannot back up. Tap one on a finished entry to see it full screen; press and hold to remove it.
In the entry form, under Recurring, set Needs doing again to an interval — monthly through to every five years. The form then shows you the date it will next fall due.
At nine in the morning on the day it falls due, once. iOS asks for notification permission the first time you save a recurring job, which is the only permission the app ever requests.
Deliberate. iOS cannot deliver a notification for a date that has already passed, and back-dating them to “now” would mean everything overdue pinging at once the first time you open the app after a holiday. Overdue jobs are shown in the app instead, in red, at the top of the property they belong to.
Tap the job in the Due section, or open the old entry and tap Log it as done again. You get a new entry already filled in with the title, category, room and the same tradesperson — but not the cost, notes or photos, which belonged to the last visit. When you save, the schedule moves onto the new entry and the old one stays in the log exactly as it was.
Edit the entry that carries the schedule — the one showing in the Due section — and set Needs doing again back to No. Only one entry in a chain ever carries the interval, so there is only ever one to change.
Pull down inside a property’s log. Search covers the title, the room, the notes and whoever did the work, so a half-remembered detail is usually enough.
The … menu lists only the categories that property has actually used, so the list stays short.
No. The log lives on the device it was written on. This version has no iCloud sync, no account and no server.
Only whatever your iPhone backup already covers. There is no export in this version. Deleting the app deletes the log with it, permanently — worth knowing before you type in ten years of history.
Not yet. If that would be useful to you, say so in an email — it is the most likely thing to be added next.