Planning
Rooms, tasks, schedule and materials — the planning side of a project.
What it is — the planning side of a project: the rooms of the home, what needs doing in each (tasks), when it happens (schedule), and what needs buying (materials).
Rooms (spaces)
Rooms live on the Spaces & Tasks tab. Three ways to add them:
1. Add by hand — + Add space with a name, type (bathroom / kitchen / bedroom / living room / other), an optional floor label and area in m². Name, type, floor and area stay editable inline on the room card afterwards.
2. Extract from a plan image — 📐 Extract from plan image takes a photo, scan or PDF of a floor plan (PDFs use page 1). RenovAI’s vision model reads it and creates the rooms it detects; when it’s done you see the plan image with the detected rooms listed beneath it — click a room to jump to its card. Select several images at once (e.g. one per floor) and you’ll be asked to label each with its floor first; that label is applied to every room from that image.
3. Import from Magicplan — ⬆ Import from magicplan uploads the Statistics CSV and creates the rooms with measured areas. A re-import shows a kept / removed / added preview first. See Magicplan import.
Deleting a room asks for confirmation and warns you exactly what goes with it: its tasks (and their materials) and its elements are permanently deleted too.
Elements (inventory)
Each room card has an Elements section — an inventory of the room’s physical parts (wall, floor, ceiling, shower, door, window, other), each with an optional existing material and notes (“Water damage lower left”). Elements are what inspiration photos get linked to and what selections are grounded in, so taking stock here pays off later.
Tasks
Tasks are the units of work. Add one from a room card (+ Add task) or leave it unassigned. Each task carries:
- Description — “Re-tile shower walls”.
- Category — plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, appliance, or general.
- Status — backlog → planned → in progress → done.
- Priority — low / medium / high.
- Contractor — a DIY-vs-pro recommendation: DIY, With guidance, or Pro only.
- Bundle — optionally assign the task to a bundle for tendering.
- Estimated cost — optional amount + currency.
Tasks with relevant hand-authored guidance show a collapsible 💡 tips panel underneath — practical notes for that trade, sometimes with a video.
Schedule
The Schedule tab plans dates. Tasks are grouped by phase (tasks without one land in “No phase”), and each gets a soft Start and End date. Sequencing is advisory — no task hard-blocks another.
If a task’s materials carry delivery dates, the task shows a delivery buffer: the fewest business days between a material’s earliest delivery and the task’s planned start. Buffers under 3 business days are flagged with a warning badge — never a block, just a heads-up that a delivery is cutting it close.
Materials
The Materials tab is the purchasing list, in two sections:
- Task materials — attached to a specific task; what’s needed to finish the work. You need at least one task before you can add these.
- Home upkeep materials — attached to the home, not the project; restocking that outlives any renovation (filters, paint touch-ups, and the like).
Every material has a description, quantity + unit, who provides it (owner or contractor), an optional estimated cost and product URL, and a purchase status: needed → ordered → purchased → delivered. Change the status straight from the list; Edit opens the full form (and is where Delete lives).