Practical
The things that keep life running.
- Household services
- Insurance
- Important contacts
- Children’s clubs
- Bills and providers
- Where things are kept
- Useful household instructions
Sometimes it’s where the stopcock is.
For busy family life
Keep the things
your family
needs to know.
Family life creates hundreds of little things to remember — dates, contacts, routines, household details and the things that usually live in one person’s head.
Family Reminder is being built to help families remember, organise and share those things without turning family life into another admin project.
Currently in private testing in the UK.
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Family ReminderOne little thing at a time
Quick one — if the boiler stopped working tonight, who would you call?
Dave at Calder Heating.
Got it. Do you know his number?
07700 900123
Home Boiler✓
- Engineer
- Dave — Calder Heating
- Telephone
- 07700 900123
A little less to carry. A little more shared.
Sound familiar?
So much of family life lives in somebody’s head.
Who knows which company insures the house?
Who remembers the nursery dates?
Who knows where the travel insurance email is?
Who knows which bedtime story works when your child won’t settle?
Usually somebody does.
The problem is that everyone else has to ask them.
A smaller way to start
Don’t organise your life.
Just answer one little question.
Traditional family organisers ask you to sit down and fill everything in. We’re exploring a different approach: occasional, useful questions. You answer naturally. The useful information can then be organised for your household.
“Who services your boiler?”
“Where would someone find your travel insurance?”
“What’s your child’s favourite bedtime story right now?”
“Who should we call about the dog if you’re away?”
“Where is your stopcock?”
“What snack always cheers your youngest up?”
No big questionnaire. No blank page. Just one useful thing at a time.
Room for both
The practical things.
And the personal ones.
A family isn’t just accounts, documents and dates.
Personal
The things that make it your family.
- Family routines
- Favourite books
- Comfort foods
- Pet preferences
- Traditions
- Little names and phrases
- Things worth remembering
Sometimes it’s which teddy makes a three-year-old feel better.
And the things for later
A little reminder can go a long way.
We’re also testing how families could leave reminders for themselves or someone in their household.
“Remind Katy to take the wellies to nursery on Monday.”
“Remind us Grandma is coming on Sunday.”
“Remind me to pay nursery by Wednesday.”
Illustrative reminders · features in private testingHow it could work
Built around the way
families already communicate.
01
We ask
An occasional small question. We’re testing familiar conversational channels, including WhatsApp, as part of the private beta.
02
You answer
No forms. Just answer naturally, in your own words.
03
Your family knowledge grows
Useful information is gradually organised so the people you choose can find it later.
Family Reminder is currently in private development. Features shown here illustrate the product we are testing.
We’re also exploring a private web application where households could review and manage their information.
Keep life where it is
You shouldn’t have to reorganise your life to use it.
Your insurance may already be in your email. Your documents may already be stored elsewhere. That’s fine.
Family Reminder isn’t being designed to make you move everything into another app. Sometimes the useful information is simply knowing where to look.
“Travel insurance is with Aviva. It’s in my email. Search Aviva travel insurance.”
Private by intention
Family information should
stay family information.
Family Reminder is being designed around privacy from the beginning. We intend to collect only information needed to provide the service, give households control over what they share, and avoid encouraging users to store highly sensitive credentials such as banking passwords.
During the current website/private-beta stage, do not send us passwords, payment-card details, online banking credentials or other authentication secrets.
Read our Privacy PolicyPrivate beta · UKWe’re building Family Reminder
We’re building Family Reminder
with real families first.
Family Reminder is currently being developed and tested privately before a wider launch.