https://deebugging.life/blog/ Free guides and straight answers on running a house with AI. Built in my own house first, then handed over. en-au Dee Behan https://deebugging.life/blog/ai-for-school-emails/ https://deebugging.life/blog/ai-for-school-emails/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT ask Put every school email under one Gmail label, then ask AI to list only what needs you to sign, pay, bring, wear, book or turn up, with dates and which child. Cross-check it against the family calendar and do it once a week. Forty school emails a week, three that matter. Here's how to get AI to find the three, without handing it your whole inbox. https://deebugging.life/blog/why-chatgpt-forgets-your-family/ https://deebugging.life/blog/why-chatgpt-forgets-your-family/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT ask Because AI memory is patchy by design: the app decides what to keep, and saved memories can vanish. The fix is to write your house down in one plain document and give it that to read, instead of hoping it remembers. Memory in AI chat apps is patchy by design. Here's why your assistant forgets who does Thursday pick-up, and the simple fix that doesn't rely on it remembering. https://deebugging.life/blog/is-it-safe-to-share-family-information-with-chatgpt/ https://deebugging.life/blog/is-it-safe-to-share-family-information-with-chatgpt/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT fear Some of it is fine to share, and you need a lot less than you think. Give it the shape of the week, keep out full identities, health and money details, and use roles instead of names. A plain guide to what's fine to tell an AI about your household, what isn't, and how to set things up so you share less without it getting dumber. https://deebugging.life/blog/can-ai-help-with-the-mental-load/ https://deebugging.life/blog/can-ai-help-with-the-mental-load/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT truth Yes, a bit: AI is good at the noticing part of the mental load, like reading the school emails and flagging what's coming. It can't take the responsibility off you unless the rest of the house can see what it sees. AI can take some of the mental load off you. But only one specific part of it, and only if you set it up so it isn't still all in your head. https://deebugging.life/blog/use-ai-to-organise-family-life/ https://deebugging.life/blog/use-ai-to-organise-family-life/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT ask Write your house down once, feed the AI your calendars and the school emails, and ask it for one weekly rundown. Then send that rundown to everyone, so you stop being the only one who knows. The honest way to use ChatGPT or Claude to run the week, the school stuff and dinner, without becoming the admin of yet another app.