Keep shared plant care clear—even when you’re away
Keep the care plan and its history in one household. Partners, roommates, family, and temporary sitters can see the context their role allows and record the work they actually do.
- Authenticated access
- Expiring sitter role
- Action provenance
Role model diagram · not live member activity
Share the collection—not a public garden.
The active household scopes its plants, rooms, dashboard, calendar, and history. Household access requires an account and membership; it is not a public profile.
Inside the household boundary
- Plants and rooms
- Dashboard and calendar
- Journal and care history
You can create more than one household and switch which one is active.
Give each person access for the job at hand.
Roles are checked by the application server on household-scoped actions. A sitter can help with care without gaining collection or member-management permissions.
| Role | Collection | Care and journal | People |
|---|---|---|---|
| OwnerFull household control | Create, edit, and delete | Complete and log | Manage members and invites |
| MemberEveryday plant care | Create, edit, and delete | Complete and log | No member management |
| SitterLimited care access | View only | Complete and add journal entries | No member management |
Choose the role before someone joins.
An owner creates a link with a household role and optional expiry. The invitee signs in before accepting it, and the owner can revoke an outstanding link.
- 1
Create
Choose member or sitter and, if useful, an expiry.
- 2
Sign in
The recipient authenticates before joining the household.
- 3
Accept
The server creates membership with the selected role.
Temporary sitter access
- Can
- View, complete care, add journal entries
- Cannot
- Manage plants, rooms, members, or invites
- Access
- Ends at the owner-selected expiry
Temporary help without handing over the household.
A sitter sees the household care context permitted by the role. Access can expire automatically, and an owner can change the role or remove the membership sooner.
Keep another person’s care in the same history.
When someone else acts, Verdiary can show who added the plant, completed the care, or wrote the journal entry. That shared history can reduce ambiguity without promising that a log can prevent every missed or duplicated task.
Illustrative household history
Completed by Sam · today
Written by Alex · yesterday
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One schedule, individual notification choice.
Eligible active household members may receive care notifications after enabling Web Push. Delivery targets each recipient’s most recently opened subscribed device, while household timezone and overdue policy are shared.
Read the full reminder behaviorHousehold and Neighbourhood stay separate.
Household membership is the private access boundary for plants, photos, schedules, and history. Nothing becomes a Neighbourhood post automatically.
Community sharing, when used, is a separate explicit step that publishes only an allowed projection—not the authenticated household record behind it.
See how the private plant diary worksClear access before the invitation.
What an owner, member, sitter, and invite link can—and cannot—do today.
Can I invite a plant sitter temporarily?
Yes. An owner can create a sitter invite with an optional expiry. Once that membership expires, it no longer grants access to the household.
Can a sitter delete plants?
No. A sitter can view the household, complete care, and add journal entries, but cannot create, edit, or delete plants or rooms and cannot manage people.
Does an invite link expose my plants before sign-in?
No. The invitee must sign in before accepting the invite and joining the household. The link is an invitation, not anonymous access to plant data.
Can I revoke a link or remove a member?
Yes. An owner can revoke an outstanding invite, change a person’s role, or remove household access.
Is a household the same as a shared Neighbourhood garden?
No. A household is a private access boundary for its plant records. Nothing becomes a Neighbourhood post automatically; community sharing is a separate, explicit action.