A smarter way to handle household tasks
Earlier this week, Forge dropped How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier, a new project all about the many (many, many) ways to use it as the ultimate self-improvement tool. Over the next few days, we’ll be using this space to highlight a few of our favorite Drive tips.
🏠 Today’s tip is a tool to help you manage the logistics of daily life: the household manual.
How it works:
Set up a Drive folder with separate docs and spreadsheets for each area of responsibility, such as how to use the TV, how to tidy each room, a list of recurring cleaning tasks, and a contact sheet listing who to call for various repairs. Invite everyone else in the family to add to the folder based on the things that typically fall under their purview.
Why do it?
It’s nice to feel indispensable, up until the moment you discover no one else in your home knows how to change the smoke-alarm battery, where to find the circuit breaker, or where the stain remover lives. Whether you’re the primary keeper of all knowledge in your household or every member has their own specialized knowledge, it helps to gather all that crucial know-how in one place.
Not into it? Don’t worry — there are dozens more where this came from. Explore our Guide to Google Drive now, and check tomorrow’s Daily Tip for more of our favorites from the project!
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