The home handbook
Write and maintain household instructions that someone else can find and follow.
- Decide whether a household note should expire
- How to label two nearly identical household devices
- How to record a part that came from a dismantled item
- How to review old household instructions without rewriting the handbook
- How to tell which household copy is the master
- Keep a household key inventory without writing down access codes
- Keep a shared contact useful when the named person changes roles
- Make a home reference useful offline
- Make a household reference usable by someone who speaks another language
- Make a one-page handover for a household move
- Merge two household notes without losing a useful exception
- Name household files so another person can find them
- Tell the difference between an empty box and a missing item
- Test a household handbook with a five-minute scavenger hunt
- What to put on the outside of a moving box
- Write an instruction that a visitor can follow in the dark
- Write the first page of a household handbook