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Getting started with Home Base

Home Base is your home for the household — one place for your calendar, phonebook, projects, and documents, plus a real assistant when you want work done for you.

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The toolkit

Everything in the toolkit is organized around your life areas — Home, Family, Health, Finances, Professional Services, and more. The tiles on your home screen are filters: tap one to see just the calendar events, contacts, projects, and documents tagged to that part of life.

The toolkit works anywhere in the world, in English — you don't need a subscription to keep your household organized.

Getting work done

When something needs doing that you'd rather hand off, that's where your Fractional Family Assistant comes in — a real person who makes the calls, compares the options, and follows up. Assistant services are available in the USA and are gated on a US service ZIP.

There are two ways work happens:

  • Do it yourself — walk through the Porchlight Method steps for a task and save the result to your records.
  • Hand it to an assistant — your assistant does the legwork and delivers a brief you approve.

Next steps

Still stuck? Contact us and a real person will help.

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