Manage chats and project chats

Personal chats are private by default. Project chats keep long-running work connected to the right goal.

Use this when a chat has the wrong title, should be archived, should connect to a project, or should stay separate from household chat.

This is a practical page. It focuses on the controls a normal household member needs, not on how Homie is built.

Start from personal Homie. Open the chat list, choose the chat, and decide whether it is a regular private chat or part of a project.

- Open personal Homie on your claimed phone.

- Create a new chat for a new topic.

- Rename a chat when the title no longer describes the work.

- Connect a chat to a project when the conversation should help that project.

- Remove the project link if the chat no longer belongs there.

- Archive a chat when you want it out of the active list.

Use these controls when you want to correct Homie, reduce noise, or make the home match how the household actually works.

- Chat title.

- Whether a chat is linked to a project.

- Whether a chat is active or archived.

- Which channel chat, such as mail or messaging, is connected for a member.

Homie should stay honest about what changed. If an action needs a trusted device, a claimed member, or an approval, it should say so before pretending the work is done.

- It will not show private chats on the shared household screen by default.

- It will not let another member open a private chat that belongs to you.

- It will not treat archiving as deletion of all related project work.

- It will not bind a chat to a missing project.

Personal chat history stays with the member and device context that owns it. Sharing a result with the household is a separate choice.

Project chats can include project context, but they should still respect whether the project belongs to one person or the household.

After making an operational change, do one small check. It is the easiest way to catch a wrong member, wrong device, stale link, or missing permission while the context is still fresh.

- Open the chat list after renaming or archiving.

- Open the project and confirm the chat appears where expected.

- Start a new chat for unrelated topics so old project context does not leak into new work.

Make the goal concrete. Homie works best when the project has an owner, a desired outcome, and a source or signal it can watch.

- Use one chat per real topic.

- Rename long-running chats early.

- Archive old chats instead of reusing them for unrelated work.

Most Homie issues come from setup, identity, or approval state. Work through these checks before assuming Homie ignored the request.

- Make sure the project has a clear goal and owner.

- Check whether the work needs an approval, connected account, or source link.

- Ask for the run status if Homie started multi-step work and did not finish visibly.

Good to know: Most operational changes take effect right away on the home system, but connected accounts and devices may need a refresh or reconnect.

- Use one chat per real topic.

- Rename long-running chats early.

- Archive old chats instead of reusing them for unrelated work.

- Start a new private chat.

- Rename this chat to Summer trip.

- Bind this chat to my renovation project.