MyChores Journal

From tomorrow those of you who receive HTML format emails should notice a change in layout - it now uses a table layout to line things up more nicely. It also includes the due date of each task. Thanks to a suggestion from Nat you can also opt to have your email coloured with Red/Amber/Green [...]

Today is MyChores Monday and i’ve been working on email address verification, which has been noticeably missing for a very long time. This change shouldn’t affect anyone already registered on the site – i’ve taken it for granted that your email addresses are already verified. But for any new members signing up, they’ll get an [...]

Well, i’ll admit that wasn’t the smoothest MyChores update i’ve ever done! I managed to break the standard outbound email queue, a few people in Europe got sent the wrong tasks, and a few people in the UK received duplicate emails. I was so worried about whether i’d got the timezone thing right, i didn’t [...]

Wow, it’s been a long time coming, but i think i’ve finally achieved timezone support for email notifications. Emails were previously sent out at 4am GMT. This presumably meant that Americans were getting emails a day early, and Australians had to wait until the afternoon to get their email! Now i have an process polling [...]

Hi everyone, we’re having a little problem with MyChores email. I don’t think any emails got sent out this morning, and reminders, contact messages, signup confirmations etc are not working.
Paul at Rushed Sunlight, the company that hosts MyChores, is looking at it right now. It’s probably due to moving servers at the beginning of the [...]

Here’s an update especially for jinkies and a couple of other people who said it would be a good idea: HTML emails!
This means that your daily/weekly email (if you choose to receive them) will now contain links so that you can tick chores straight out of the email.
If you don’t want to receive HTML emails [...]

It’s been a while but i’ve finally got round to adding another feature to the site.
As requested by MazzaRC (source of many great ideas) we can now request task descriptions with our emails.
In the Preferences page there is a new ticky box called “Include Descriptions”. Tick it if you want them, or not if you [...]

If daily notifications are a bit too annoying, you can now try weekly notifications! Just edit your profile and choose the day of the week that you’d like to receive your weekly email.
You’ll be reminded of any overdue tasks, plus all tasks coming up in the week. I guess most people would want this either [...]

I have created a script for sending daily email notifications! I first wrote it as an action within the controller so that i could test it through a web page. Then i transferred it to a method within the model, which i thought was a good idea, except i kept getting NoMethodError which was nonsense [...]