Sharing is where household apps usually go wrong. They either share everything, which nobody wants, or they share so little that the second person stops opening it.
This course is about the middle.
Lesson 1: private is where everything starts
Nothing you write is shared until you decide it is. Your entries sit on your device and stay invisible to everyone in any Space you join, including whoever administers it.
Check this for yourself before you share anything. Look at a Space you haven't shared and confirm it says private. Knowing that by having seen it beats being told.
Lesson 2: what a shared Space is allowed to hold
A group is deliberately narrow, and it's a rule in the code rather than a setting.
A household carries tasks, chores, the reward bank, notices, Kitchen and the shopping list. A team carries tasks, notices and attendance, and nothing else.
Neither one can hold money, health, medications or notes. Not on any tier, and not by mistake.
Free gives you your Personal Space. Plus gives you 3 in total, Premium 10, and a Winner's Circle win doubles whichever you have. A Space somebody shares with you never counts against your own number.
Lesson 3: make one, and invite one person
Create a household and invite the other adult. One person, not the whole family, because the first thing to find out is whether the two of you actually use it.
Put the shopping list in it. That's the feature that proves the idea fastest, since both of you will touch it within a day.
Lesson 4: chores that get done
A chore needs an owner and a day. Without both it's a wish.
Set up three, no more. Pick the three that currently cause the most friction rather than the three that sound most organized. If a chore hasn't been ticked in two weeks, it was the wrong chore and you should delete it rather than feel bad about it.
Lesson 5: an allowance a child can understand
Children don't sign into Buhata. There are no child logins and never have been. A child is somebody a parent keeps track of, so the chores, the reward balance and the notices live in your account.
That's the part worth explaining out loud to them: they can see what they earned and why, and it isn't a number you can quietly change without them noticing.
What you should be able to do now
- Say exactly what the other person in your house can and cannot see
- Run a shopping list neither of you has to ask about
- Keep three chores alive for a month
Next: Talking to your app.