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Ask your agent to set up your house list and it proposes the standard jobs with sensible timing (filter every 3 months, detector batteries yearly, gutters in spring and fall) tuned to your place with a question or two. Say "just changed the furnace filter" and it logs today and works out the next due date. Ask what's coming up and you get a short list, safety items first. No spreadsheet, no sticky note on the water heater.

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The jobs nobody remembers, two weeks before they matter: the furnace filter, the detector batteries, the gutters. Safety-critical items come first. Each job is mentioned when its date comes within two weeks and then left alone, so the list does not become the same message every weekend. Reply that something is done and it logs today and rolls the next date forward.

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• Home Maintenance skill

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Take the daily "what's for dinner" decision off your plate. Tell your agent your tastes once and it plans meals around them, saves the week so you can glance at any day, suggests dishes when you're stuck, and rolls the plan into a grocery list. Because the plan is saved, it carries over, with no re-explaining that you don't eat mushrooms every single time. And for the 6 PM stare into the fridge: list what's on hand and it offers two realistic dinners built mostly from those ingredients, then talks you through the one you pick, step by step.

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Tell your agent the dates once ("my mom's birthday is March 12") and it never forgets. When one is coming up, it tells you how many days you have, drafts a message that fits the relationship, and reads back any gift ideas you've saved. Toss in ideas all year ("gift idea for dad: espresso beans") and they'll be waiting right when you need them.

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Each morning it checks the week ahead: if someone's day is today you get a warm nudge and a ready-to-send message, and if it's coming up you get a one-line heads-up with days to go, plus a note to jot gift ideas while there's still time. On quiet weeks it stays out of your way.

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• Birthday Keeper skill

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The answer is usually sitting in a PDF nobody wants to open, whether the question is about a lease or a contract. Add those documents once, on the agent's Knowledge tab or by dragging them into the chat, and your agent reads them properly: it finds the clause, quotes it, tells you which document and where, and says plainly when the papers do not cover your question rather than guessing. It compares across documents too, so "does my renters policy cover what my lease makes me responsible for?" gets a real answer. It reads the words on the page; it is not a lawyer, and it will tell you when something is worth asking one about.

Setting up My Documents

1. Add your documents on the agent's Knowledge tab: lease, insurance policies, warranties, HOA rules, school handbooks, anything with rules in it. PDF, text, Markdown, CSV and HTML can all be read.

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Each morning add-on is worth having; six separate morning messages are not. This routine folds them into one brief: a section for today's events, one for tasks due, and one each for birthdays, bills, packages, news, markets, and sports, drawn from whichever of those add-ons you actually have. Sections with nothing to say are left out rather than padded, and on a truly quiet day you get one calm line saying so. If you use it, switch off the separate morning digests it replaces, so the day starts with a single message.

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• Calendar Management skill

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Add each car once; a nickname like 'The Honda' is enough. Mention things in passing ("got the oil changed at 48,200 miles") and your agent updates the mileage, adds a dated line to the service history, and pencils in the next oil change. Ask "what's coming up for the car" and it reads back anything due in the next 60 days, soonest first. Works for one car or the whole driveway.

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Registration and inspection dates slip precisely because nobody checks them, and the fine tends to arrive before the reminder does. Each Sunday this looks 30 days ahead across every car in your list, names what is due and for which car, and keeps saying so each week until it's handled, which is how a lapse actually gets avoided. It also flags a date it doesn't have rather than giving you a false all-clear. Nothing coming up means no message at all.

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• Car Keeper skill

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Life gets busy and three months slip by before you notice. Add your people, whether Mom, your brother across the country, or your college roommate, with how often you want to talk. Mention "talked to Dad today" and the record quietly keeps itself. Ask "who am I overdue with" and you get who's been waiting longest, plus a personal way to open the conversation: ask how the kitchen reno turned out.

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Sunday afternoon is when there's finally a quiet moment to text someone back. Your agent checks your circle, picks the one or two people it's been longest since you talked to, and hands you a personal way to open the conversation, so the thought "I should call Mom" actually turns into calling Mom.

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• Stay In Touch skill

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Plan a trip in conversation and keep it all in one place. Say where and when, and your agent looks up live flight prices, builds a day-by-day itinerary, keeps a to-do list of what still needs booking, and remembers the details so you can pick up planning any time. Flight prices come straight from Google Flights at the moment you ask, so 'how much is Lisbon in May' gets a real number instead of a guess, with a link to book. Ideas, logistics and the countdown all live in one saved trip instead of a dozen tabs and texts to yourself. Booked something? With Email Manager (or another skill that reads your mail) installed, "add my bookings to the trip" reads the confirmation emails and files the real flight numbers, times and codes into the plan.

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• Flights

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Stop hunting through 'your order has shipped' emails. Connect an email account and it reads the shipping mail as it arrives, whether order confirmations, dispatch notices, or out-for-delivery and delivered alerts, and folds each one into a single Packages list, deduped by tracking number so a noisy thread collapses into one live row (item, merchant, carrier, tracking, status, expected date). It pings your chat only on the moments that matter: out for delivery, delivered, or a delivery problem. Ask it 'what's coming this week?' or 'where's my monitor?' any time and it answers from that list. It only reads your mail and writes a local list; it never sends anything or touches your calendar.

One thing the emails cannot tell you is where a parcel is right now. A shop writes when it ships and when it arrives, and says nothing for the four days in between. Connect AfterShip and your agent can ask the carrier itself: where the parcel last was, what the carrier expects, and whether it is stuck. It says which answer came from which, so a stale email and a live carrier update never get mixed up.

Works with

• an email account
• Aftership

Setting up Package Tracker

1. AfterShip is optional and only adds the live carrier position. Make a key at organization.automizely.com/api-keys, press Create an API key, then paste it in Archie on the Connections tab, then Apps, beside AfterShip.

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Bureaucracy is not hard, it is just long, and the cost is having to reload the whole thing in your head every time you pick it back up. Tell your agent what you're going through and it keeps the map: the steps in order, where you actually are, which documents you have and which you still need, deadlines and fees, and what the next action is. It uses the Researcher to check the current requirements on official sources and tells you what it read them from, because these rules change and stale advice is worse than none. It is not a lawyer or an immigration adviser, and it will say so where that matters.

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Tell your agent "water the monstera weekly" or "Biscuit gets his flea med on the first" and it remembers so you don't have to. Ask what needs doing, say "watered the plants" when it's done, and the next date rolls forward on its own. Vet names, food brands and quirks live right on each record, so the whole household's care sits in one place.

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A quiet daily sweep of your Plants & Pets list. When something is due or overdue you get one line per item; reply that you did it and the next date rolls forward on its own. On a clear day it stays out of your way entirely, apart from a short heads-up when something's due tomorrow.

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• Plant Pet Care skill

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The night before a trip, somebody sits down and tries to remember everything a house-sitter needs: how much the dog eats, which plant dies first, when the trash goes out, the wifi password, who to call about the furnace. Your agent already knows most of it, scattered across the lists it keeps for you. Tell it the dates and it pulls the lot into one clear note you can send to whoever is covering, written for a person who has never been in your house. It also flags what happens while you are away that nobody will be there for: a bill that charges, a registration that expires, a delivery that lands on the porch. Anything it does not know, it asks for once, and remembers next time.

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A house full of smart things is still a house you have to think about: what did the kids leave on, did the garage ever close, is the heating running for nobody. House Watch hands that watching to your agent through the Home Assistant you already run, so every brand the hub speaks is covered by one connection.

First use, it maps your house into a device list you prune once: everything it can see, named your way, grouped by room. After that, plain words work. "Turn off the kitchen lights" happens immediately and is reported back the way a person would say it; lights, plugs and scenes never need an approval tap, because a wrong one costs a tap to reverse. A thermostat, a lock or the garage is different on purpose: your agent shows you exactly what would change and waits, every time.

Say "I'm leaving" and it sets the house, then tells you what it did and what it left alone. Add The Nightly Sweep routine and the same check happens at 10:15 every night without you: what you've marked safe gets switched off, the rest arrives as one message you can answer from the couch. If your house can't be reached, it says so; it never guesses.

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• Home Assistant

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School communication is a firehose of PDFs, newsletters and last-minute asks, and missing one costs a child their trip or their costume. Your agent reads that mail as it comes in and pulls out the parts that need you: the forms with a return date, the money owed, the dress-down day, the thing to bring on Thursday, the parent-teacher conference to book. Everything is kept per child, so "what does Maya need this week?" gets a real answer, and calendar events are proposed for your approval rather than silently added. It reads and prepares; it never replies to the school for you.

Works with any email account connected on the agent's Connections tab, under Email, calendar, files.

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• an email account

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Sunday evening is when a parent can still do something about Monday morning. This reads the school mail from the past week, picks out the jobs hiding in the newsletters, and gives you one list per child of what is needed and when. Anything already overdue goes first, because that is the one you want to know about while the school office is still reachable.

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• School Family skill

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Every house has a walk-round: the lights nobody is using, the fan in an empty room, the door that never latched. This does the walk each night through House Watch. Devices you've marked as fine to switch unattended are turned off and listed; everything else still on arrives as one short message, so "turn off the office lamp too" from the couch finishes the job. A door or window still open at that hour leads the message. A quiet house sends nothing. If Home Assistant can't be reached, it says that once instead of guessing.

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• House Watch skill

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Check-in opens 24 hours before departure and the free seats worth having are gone within the hour, so the whole job is really an alarm clock somebody has to answer. This answers it.

The day before a flight, it goes to the airline's own site, identifies the booking with the confirmation code and your surname, works through the questions, takes a free seat and sends you the boarding pass. If the window has not opened yet when it looks, it says exactly when it does and offers to go then.

It buys nothing, changes nothing and cancels nothing. If check-in cannot finish without paying, it stops and tells you what is being asked for.

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• Flight Check In skill

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The people you care about tell you their big days in passing: the interview, the surgery, the move, the results. You mean to ask afterwards, and then Thursday happens to you too. This catches those moments as they come up in ordinary conversation with your agent, without a form and without you keeping a list, and the day after each one it hands you the question: "yesterday was Sarah's interview, today's a good day to ask her how it went." It asks once, not until you act, because a nudge that repeats becomes noise you scroll past. Your own big days count too: mention your flight or your review, and the day after, your agent asks you how it landed. What you tell it goes on the record, so over time it knows how these things went, not just that they happened.

Commitment Keeper covers what you promised other people; Waiting On covers what they owe you. This is the third direction: the things nobody owes anybody, where remembering to ask is the whole gift.

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Remembering to ask is the whole gift, and it is exactly what a Thursday full of your own life makes you drop. This watches the Big Days list the Circle Back skill builds from your conversations, and the morning after each one it says so: whose day it was, what it was, and the ten-second question worth sending. Each thing comes back once. Answer it, ignore it, or say "she got it!", and either way that row is done; a reminder that repeats until you obey it is a chore, and this is not a chore. Mornings with nothing the day before are silent.

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• Circle Back skill

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Check-in opens 24 hours before a flight and the good seats are gone in minutes, so the job is really an alarm clock you have to answer. This answers it.

It finds the flight in your inbox, where the airline already sent it: the confirmation code, the name as they spell it, the flight number and the date. When the window opens it goes to the airline's own site in a browser window on your computer, identifies the booking with the code and your surname, works through the questions, takes a seat that costs nothing, and sends you the boarding pass.

It buys nothing. Not a seat, not a bag, not priority boarding. If check-in cannot finish without paying, it stops and tells you what is being asked for and what it costs. It cannot enter card details at all, and the button that takes money comes back to you, which is true of every site your agent uses.

It does not change or cancel bookings either. If the flight is wrong, it says so and leaves it to you.

What Flight Check-In needs

Needs Computer control turned on, which is off until you switch it on. Your agent works the site in a browser window on your own computer, and you can watch it. It never types a password or a card you pay with, and it asks before pressing anything that finalizes.

Works with

• an email account

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Your agent finds the lights on your network, you choose which ones it may touch, and from then on plain words work: "turn off the desk lamp", "dim the bookcase to 30", "make the shelf light warm white". Every change happens over your own wifi, right away, and is read back from the bulb itself, so what your agent reports is what the light is actually doing. "Undo that" works. Finding a Hue bridge asks Philips' own server which bridges are on your network, the way the Hue app does. Your agent knows your lights by the names and rooms you give them, and those reach your AI company like everything else it reads.

Be clear about what this needs, so it never surprises you:

It works with exactly three brands today: Philips Hue (through its own bridge, paired by pressing the bridge's round button), WiZ, and LIFX. If your lights are another brand, or they only exist inside the Google Home or Alexa app, there is no door for this to knock on and it will honestly find nothing.

It reaches lights only while this computer is at home: on, awake, with Archie open, and on the same wifi as the lights. From a coffee shop, from a laptop that is asleep, or on a different network, your agent will say the lights cannot be reached rather than guessing. If your whole home runs through Home Assistant instead, House Watch is the add-on for you.

On a Mac, the first scan makes the computer ask whether Archie may find devices on the local network. Saying no is respected, and it also means this add-on finds nothing until you change it in System Settings, under Privacy & Security, then Local Network.

Works with

• Hue, WiZ or LIFX on your wifi
• Govee
• Lifx

Setting up Home Lights

1. Nothing to set up for Philips Hue, WiZ and LIFX on your own wifi. Add those on the Home devices card: your agent scans, you pick which ones it may touch.
2. Govee only: get a key in the Govee Home app, under Settings, Apply for API Key. Paste it in Archie on the Connections tab, then Apps, beside Govee. Generating a new key cancels every older one, so make one and keep it.
3. LIFX only, and only if you want your lights to answer while this computer is away from home: make a token at cloud.lifx.com/settings and paste it beside LIFX on the same screen. On your own wifi, the Home devices card is faster and needs no token.

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Your calendar says "Dentist, 2pm". It does not say where the dentist is, which is why the leave-now alert on your phone has nothing to tell you. This reads the confirmation email, finds the address, keeps it, and then works out what the drive takes with today's traffic on it, so what you get is a time: leave at 1:22. It sets that as a reminder and hands you a link that opens in whichever maps app you use. Where you are leaving from is worked out too, from the thing before it on your calendar, or from home or work depending on the hour, and it always tells you which one it assumed so you can correct it in a line. Addresses it finds once it keeps forever, so the second time you go to that dentist it costs nothing to work out. You need a TomTom key for the traffic, which is free and takes a minute: no credit card, no account to set up.

Works with

• a calendar
• an email account
• Tomtom

Setting up Leave Time

1. Get a TomTom key, which is free and needs no card. Go to developer.tomtom.com, press Register, confirm your email, and the key is on the dashboard the moment you sign in. Copy it.
2. In Archie, open the Connections tab, then Apps, find TomTom, and paste the key in.

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This is the run that makes Leave Time arrive instead of waiting to be asked. Early each morning it reads the day's calendar, picks out the things that are somewhere real rather than a video call, finds the address for each (out of your confirmation email, if the calendar entry does not carry one), checks what the drive takes with the traffic that will be on the road at that hour, and sets a reminder at the time you have to go. You get one message with the day's journeys in it, and nothing at all on a day with none. Doing the whole day in one pass is deliberate: it is one run rather than one per appointment, and most of what is on a working calendar is a video call with no journey in it at all.

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• Leave Time skill

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The morning check times your day first thing, which means it times the five o'clock drive with the traffic a map expects at five o'clock. The truck that jackknifes at half past four is not in that. This one closes the gap: as each journey comes within about an hour, it asks the road again, and if you now have to leave meaningfully earlier it moves the reminder and tells you. Asking a map how long a drive takes costs nothing at all, so this can look every few minutes, and it only wakes your agent on the few occasions the answer has really changed. A jam that keeps getting worse is one message, not one every five minutes. It never tells you to leave later, because a morning built around a departure time should not be moved out from under you.

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• Leave Time skill

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A house does not run on a to-do list. It runs on cycles. The filter is a quarterly thing, the gutters are an October thing, the dog's pills are a monthly thing, and the only urgent question most mornings is what changed since yesterday. This voice is built for that shape and for the skills that live in it: home maintenance, car upkeep, pets, and plants, packages, meals, groceries, warranties, birthdays.

Its quiet trick is that it remembers what people said they would do. If Dan said he would call the plumber on Tuesday, that is a fact it holds and says once, in the same flat tone it uses for the recycling. Never as an accusation, never as a tally. A household is a group of people, not a project plan, and this voice will not take a side between people who live together.

When the house starts slipping it says so kindly, once, and then names the smallest thing that would turn it around.

House Manager in a conversation

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