Households and workspaces
On screen, a household is a workspace. You start with one of your own, and you can belong to more than one: your own, plus any shared ones you have joined by invite link.
Starting a shared workspace
- More → Settings → Start a shared workspace.
- Name it, and its Members page opens with an invite link.
- Send the link. Anyone who opens it and signs in with Google joins.
The invite link is good for a week. From Members it can be shared again, replaced with a fresh one, or withdrawn. Whoever started the workspace cannot leave it, but can remove others; anyone else can leave from the same page.
Switching
One workspace is on screen at a time. With more than one, a bar at the top of every screen names the current one in its colour, and tapping it opens a picker that swaps into another on the same tab — you were on Lists, you are still on Lists, now the other household's.
Colour
Each workspace has a colour of its own, picked from six tones on the Colour row in Settings. It tints the bar, the buttons and the chips, so a glance says which household you are looking at.
Groups in a shared workspace
Your own workspace has Personal and Work groups. A shared workspace's first group wears the workspace's own name instead — "Family" in one called Family — and has no Work group unless something is already filed there. The household can make its own groups either way; see To-dos.
Moving things between workspaces
Holding a to-do, a note or a list item offers to move it to another workspace.
- A to-do lands on the other workspace's first shelf.
- A note keeps its photos.
- A list item moves as it is; a checked-off item stays with its trip.
Your name across workspaces
People are per household: @sam in one workspace and @sam in another are two entries. This is me is said once per account in each. See People, tags and questions.