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TaskMate publishes each child's outstanding chores as a native Home Assistant To-do list, so you can see and tick off today's chores using HA's built-in To-do List card — and through any voice assistant — without the custom TaskMate cards.

What You Get

For every child, TaskMate creates one to-do list entity:

todo.taskmate_<child name>

For example, a child called Malia gets todo.taskmate_malia. New children get their own to-do list automatically as soon as they're added.

Each list shows the chores that child still needs to do today — the same set of due chores TaskMate uses everywhere else (it shares the integration's due-chore logic, so vacation mode, scheduling, availability and dynamic visibility are all honoured). Completed chores drop off the list.

Ticking Items Off Completes the Chore

The list isn't just a read-only mirror. When you (or a child, or a voice assistant) check an item off, TaskMate marks that chore as completed for that child — exactly as if it had been completed from the child card. Points are awarded and the usual approval flow applies where configured.

This makes the native To-do List card a fully working way to drive TaskMate from anywhere in your Home Assistant dashboards.

The to-do list supports updating items (checking them off). Items are added and removed by TaskMate itself based on what's due — you don't add chores from the to-do card; create them in the Admin Panel as usual. See Chores.

Adding the To-do List Card

Use Home Assistant's built-in To-do List card and point it at the child's list:

type: todo-list
entity: todo.taskmate_malia

To show several children at once, stack one card per child (for example in a grid or vertical stack):

type: vertical-stack
cards:
  - type: todo-list
    entity: todo.taskmate_malia
  - type: todo-list
    entity: todo.taskmate_alex

For TaskMate's own richer cards, see Dashboard Cards.

Voice Assistants

Because these are standard HA to-do lists, they work with voice assistants for free. You can ask Assist what's on a child's list and mark items done by voice, alongside TaskMate's dedicated voice intents. See Voice Assistants.

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