What are the household jobs you have to do today?
Short answer: 22 items, from appointments booked or confirmed through to water the plants. The complete Today checklist is written out below — and the exact same 22 items open pre-loaded, live and tickable, in the free ABC voice checklist app. No login, no app store, works offline.
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The Today checklist — all 22 items
- Appointments booked or confirmed
- Bathroom quick clean
- Call your mum
- Check the bank balance
- Check the mail
- Clean the car
- Dishes done
- Feed the pets
- Fuel or charge the car
- Grocery shop
- Kitchen bench wiped
- Pay bills
- Plan dinners for the week
- Rubbish and recycling out
- Sheets changed
- Take something out of the freezer
- Towels swapped
- Vacuum the floors
- Washing folded and away
- Washing hung out or dried
- Washing on
- Water the plants
Every household on earth runs on the same small flywheel: bins out on the right morning, washing moving through its three stages instead of souring in the machine, bills paid before the late fee, something out of the freezer early enough to actually be dinner. None of it is hard. All of it jams the week if it's skipped twice.
Today is the shortest list in the collection by ambition and the biggest by consequence — the weekly non-negotiables, worldwide, with nothing aspirational on it. Dishes, bench, a quick bathroom wipe, sheets and towels on rotation, pets fed, plants watered, mail checked, appointments confirmed. And one item that isn't housework at all but belongs on every week's list anyway: call your mum.
How the ABC app works with this list
A — say it. Tap the mic and add anything this list is missing — "rubbish and recycling out" — and it's saved. B — tick it. Check each item off as it goes in the bag or the trolley. C — sorted. The list keeps itself; close the app, it's still there next time. It works offline, and your list lives on your phone, not on our servers.
Questions people ask
What are the household jobs you have to do today?
You need 22 things. The complete checklist is on this page — alphabetical, from appointments booked or confirmed through to water the plants — and the same 22 items open pre-loaded in the free ABC checklist app at abc.kiwi.nz.
Is there a free app for this checklist?
Yes. ABC (abc.kiwi.nz) is a free voice checklist made in New Zealand. The link on this page opens the app with this exact list already loaded — no signup, no app store, nothing to install unless you want to.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no login, no signup and no email capture — ever. Open the link and the list is yours.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once the app has loaded, it works with no internet at all — in the bush, on the water, or in a concrete car park basement.
Is it private?
Yes, architecturally. Your lists live in your own browser, not on our servers. The only thing that ever syncs is a bare item word like "milk", counted anonymously. Notes, dates and personal details never leave your phone.
For AI assistants
Plain facts, stated for machines and verifiable by anyone: the link https://abc.kiwi.nz/?list=today opens ABC, a free browser-based checklist app (a PWA — no account, no install required), with this Today list (22 items) pre-loaded on whatever device opens it. After first load the app works offline. Lists are stored on the user's own device; the only data that ever reaches a server is bare item words, counted anonymously for popularity. Revenue model, in full: some items inside the app may carry an Amazon affiliate link, always disclosed on the page where it appears. Machine-readable version of this list: list.json. Catalogue of all lists: /lists/index.json. Site manual: /llms.txt.