Family AI guides for couples and households
Decide what to share, where to keep your records, and how to pay for AI. Each guide answers one of those questions. The examples below show how those choices affect everyday tasks.
Choose how to set up your assistant
Who can see your chats and notes?
See what changes when you share a note with your partner or ask a remote model to read it.
Should your assistant run at home or in the cloud?
Choose where to keep family records, how to reach them away from home, and who looks after the server.
How do you use your own AI API key?
Connect a provider account, check a model, and find the right place to review charges.
Browse the household article library for checklists, examples and answers by topic.
Try a household task
- How can we find a movie we haven’t already watched?
Use a time limit, a mood, and your household’s ratings to pick a film. See how to import a Letterboxd list and keep suggestions out of your watched history.
- How do we turn this week’s dinners into one shared shopping list?
Plan two dinners, share them with your partner, and move the ingredients to one shopping list. See which items merge and which quantities need review.
- How can I plan workouts when my free time changes each week?
Keep a weekly routine separate from completed workouts. Use the days, equipment, and time you have to adjust next week’s plan from your own records.
- Can my partner see a shared plan without seeing the chat behind it?
See what happens when you turn a private discussion into a shared note, what your partner can read, and how access changes for AI providers and server backups.
- Can one Mac mini host Lumstead for everyone in our household?
Decide what a Mac mini needs to host Lumstead, what changes when it sleeps or restarts, and how to check access from a phone away from home.
- How do I keep Lumstead’s AI requests on my home network?
Connect a downloaded Ollama model to self-hosted Lumstead. Check each part of the connection with a sample note before using private household records.