What a year with Oosby is like
There's a dull bit at the start, and then a handful of days when you're glad you bothered. These are those days.
Most reminders are accidents
The warning that something's due tends to arrive by luck — an email you happened to open, a letter that happened to be near the top of the pile. Nobody designed that. It's what's left when there's no system, and it quietly makes one person responsible for noticing everything.
The day it tells you
An email arrives one morning: the MOT is due in three weeks. Not on the day it expires, and not so far ahead that you file it and forget — three weeks, which is long enough to ring round and find a garage with a free slot.
Oosby is watching 47 different kinds of date across 33 kinds of thing, from the MOT to the boiler service to the cat's booster, and each kind comes with its own amount of warning. You hear once. Never more than once a day.
On the days there's nothing to do, nothing arrives. That's the part worth caring about: an app that pings you about everything gets muted, and a muted app may as well not be there.
The day somebody else looks it up
Months in, someone you live with wants the dentist's name, or the date the boiler was last serviced, or the policy number. They don't ask you. They look.
Invite whoever you live with — a partner, your family, the people you share a flat with, or nobody at all if the household is you and a cat — and they see what you see, without anyone entering it twice or forwarding it on. Nothing here leaves that household. The fields worth protecting go further and are encrypted so that we can't read them either; sharing hands over the key rather than unlocking anything for us.
Documents sit with the thing they belong to, so the V5C is on the car and the MOT certificate is next to the renewal date. When you're asked for it, you're not going through your email. That part is on the web for now.
The dates you never have to check
Long after you've forgotten you added the car, its MOT and road tax are still accurate. Those two come from the DVLA, so when a date moves Oosby moves with it and tells you afterwards rather than asking you to approve a fact you had no hand in.
And a job you didn't know you had
Somewhere in there you added a boiler, and Oosby offered you a yearly service. You hadn't asked for it. It's what boilers need, and it isn't written down anywhere you'd look — not on the boiler, not in the manual you've lost, and not in a calendar, because you'd have had to know about it to put it there.
A coffee machine gets offered descaling. Nothing is created unless you accept it, so the ones you don't want stay gone.
Getting it in was the short part
Every date on this page arrived one of four ways, and only one of them is typing. Forward the email — your household gets its own address, so a bill or a renewal sent to it gets read. Point your phone at a letter and the same thing happens. Type a registration and you get the make, the colour, the fuel and four more fields back, which is seven characters instead of a form. Or pick the provider, because most of the companies a household deals with are already in there.
Whatever Oosby reads turns up as a draft for you to check first. It reads things for you; it doesn't decide things for you.
Start with whichever renewal is nearest
The car, the boiler, the one you're least sure about. Forward the email and it's in, dates and all.
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