HomeLedger — Smart Household Life Manager

🏠 HomeLedger — Smart Household Life Manager

HomeLedger is a full-stack household platform designed to bring everything important in a home into one shared digital space — instead of spreading it across WhatsApp chats, random notebooks, memory, and dozens of different apps.

What started as a family health / medicine manager has now evolved into a much bigger vision:

💡 A central control centre for household life — groceries, medicine, health, expenses, reminders, logs, and more — with shared access for the whole family.

🌟 Key Pillars of HomeLedger

✔ Household-Centric Design

• Create a household space

• Invite family members

• Everyone shares the same data

• Roles & permissions built-in (owner / member)

• Great for:

  • families

  • couples

  • shared accommodation

  • elderly care households

🛒 Groceries & Pantry Management (ToDo)

HomeLedger includes a Groceries module to stop households running out of essentials.

Features

• Add grocery items with:

  • category

  • quantity

  • notes

  • purchase history

• Track items by status:

  • 🟢 In stock

  • 🟡 Running low

  • 🔴 Out of stock

• Shared view across the whole household

• Prepared for:

  • shopping list mode

  • auto-repeat

  • predictive suggestions

[IMAGE — ToDo]

💊 Medicine & Prescription Manager

Medicine is still a core module — especially for families with ongoing prescriptions.

Includes:

• Patient-level prescriptions

• Dosage & schedule tracking

• Medicine stock levels

• Optional auto-deduction when taken

• Low-stock warnings

• Upcoming expiry reminders

• Full log & timeline history

❤️ Health Logs & Appointments

Health needs proper history — not memory.

Supported logs:

• 🩸 Blood pressure tracking

• Smart Blood pressure record scanning

• Blood pressure record exporting as PDF

• ❤️ Pulse rate

• 📅 Appointments

• 📝 Health notes & doctor summaries

Everything appears in a single timeline view.

💰 (Upcoming) Expenses & Household Finance

HomeLedger is structured so expenses and payments can plug in naturally.

• Shared expense logging

• Categories (groceries / medicine / utilities etc.)

• Future-ready for:

  • charts

  • balance-splitting

  • cash-flow summaries

This makes HomeLedger useful even for students in shared homes.

🧠 Household Knowledge Hub (Future Expansion)

The platform is intentionally designed to grow.

Planned / supported sections include:

• Warranty tracking

• Household documents

• Emergency info

• Contacts & service providers

• Maintenance reminders

• Pet records

• School info

HomeLedger is meant to scale with real family life.

🧩 UX & Design Philosophy

🎯 Goals

• Clear

• Calm

• Trust-worthy

• Minimal noise

Experience features

• Two-column layouts on large screens

• Compact mobile layouts

• Global loading bar

• Real-time state indicators

• Consistent UI components

• Accessibility-first colour contrast

🏗 Tech Stack & Architecture

Frontend

• React

• Vite

• Tailwind CSS

• Axios

• Custom UI components

• Global store for loading & app state

Backend

• Node.js

• Express

• MongoDB + Mongoose

• JWT Authentication

• Secure cookies

• Email verification system

• Background job support

• Ready for:

  • AWS S3 file storage

  • PDF export

  • Notifications engine

👥 Typical User Flow

1️⃣ Create an account & verify email
2️⃣ Create your household
3️⃣ Invite other members
4️⃣ Add your:

• groceries

• medicines

• logs

• appointments
  5️⃣ HomeLedger becomes your shared “memory system”
  6️⃣ No more losing details inside chat history

📌 Why I Built This

Most families today rely on:

• WhatsApp chats

• hand-written notes

• reminders in different phones

That works — until it doesn’t.

HomeLedger centralizes the critical information that actually matters in everyday home life, in a way that is:

• clear

• secure

• structured

• and easy for everyone to access

🚀 What I Learned

• Building multi-tenant systems with households & roles

• Designing modular domain-driven features

• Secure email verification & JWT auth

• Handling sensitive personal data structures

• Creating scalable backend architecture

• Designing UI for family-friendly clarity

🔮 Future Direction

HomeLedger is designed to grow into a complete home OS, including:

✔ reminders
✔ recurring schedules
✔ record exports
✔ notifications
✔ expenses engine
✔ automation rules
✔ insights dashboard

…and much more 🙂