What you can send moj

How do things get to moj?

There are five ways in. All five lead to the same place, your family space:

• WhatsApp. A text, a voice message or a photo, sent to the moj number.
• The inbox in the app. The button at the bottom right: write, speak or take a photo.
• Sharing. From inside another app. moj sends a picture straight off, because there is nothing to add to a till receipt. A link goes into the text box first, so you can still write something in front of it: “This one on Friday” turns an idea into a plan.
• Email. A forwarded bill or a letter from school arrives in the inbox just like a message. Bills by email explains how.
• Typing. If you’d rather add things yourself, you can. They go into the same space.

You get a single line back: a tick and what was filed. moj doesn’t start a conversation.

moj accepts pictures, voice messages and PDFs up to 20 MB. If it can’t read something, it tells you straight away. Nothing quietly disappears.

Which seven kinds of entry does moj sort things into?

Every message becomes one or more of these. The examples aren’t commands, just sentences as people actually say them.

Shopping

“Milk and toilet roll on the list” becomes two lines, not one with a comma. Each line goes into its own area. There are eleven, in the order a supermarket is laid out. When you shop, the list follows your route through the shop rather than the alphabet.

The quantity is kept separate from the item. “500 g mince” becomes the item mince with the quantity 500 g. No item called “500 g mince” is created. The same eleven areas are on the printable shopping list.

Task

“Ben has to take the bins out by Friday” becomes a task with the person responsible and a date.

moj understands two kinds of repeat, and they really are different. “Every Monday” is a fixed rhythm. “Every two weeks after it’s done” counts from the day the task was last ticked off. For laundry and filters the second kind is the right one, and most list apps don’t have it.

Appointment

“Thursday 3pm dentist for Mo” becomes an appointment with the day, the time and the person named.

moj works out vague times by itself: tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next week, on the 15th, the end of the month, and “at three” as 3pm. A weekday always means the next one. Today counts as long as the time hasn’t passed yet. moj doesn’t make up a time you didn’t give. It asks.

If you mention an end or a place, moj includes it. “Kids with me from Friday 6pm to Sunday 6pm” becomes one appointment spread over three days. Repeats work too: “Swimming every Monday” becomes a series, and so does “every other week, Friday to Sunday”.

Not every appointment blocks time. “Working from home on Friday, just so you know” shows in the calendar without setting off a warning. If you have created your own categories, “Work: early shift on Tuesday” goes into the right one. The title then just says Early shift.

Receipt

A photo of a bill becomes a receipt. moj reads the merchant, amount, date and due date, and the IBAN too if there is one.

If the bill shows a due date and is still unpaid, moj also adds a task “Pay: …”. The task is linked to the receipt.

Typing works too: “Electricity €84.20 due on the 30th”. In that case the receipt holds the due date itself, and no extra task appears.

Idea

“Gift idea for Grandma: gardening book” becomes a gift idea filed under Grandma. Grandma herself can’t see it there. “I’d like a new kettle” is the same thing the other way round. It is a wish, and everyone sees it. There are also ideas for trips, for the home and for recipes.

Recipes are where moj does the most. Send a link to a recipe page, and moj reads the ingredients and files it as an idea with an ingredient list. Write “This one on Friday” in front of the link, and it becomes a plan for Friday. Getting the ingredients onto the shopping list is then just one more step.

Note

A note is anything worth keeping that isn’t a task: the paediatrician’s number, the meter reading, what the teacher said. moj won’t turn it into a task just because it contains a verb.

Goal

“Summer holiday in Italy” or “Rainy day fund 5000” becomes a goal. A goal runs longer than a task and is made up of several entries. These are either individual steps or an amount you are saving up.

What happens when one sentence holds several things?

“Buy milk and dentist Thursday” is two things, so moj adds two: an item on the shopping list and an appointment.

That is the normal case, not the exception. It is simply how people talk when they want to get something off their mind on the go. That is exactly what the WhatsApp route is for.

What can you ask moj about your entries?

You can ask anything about your appointments, tasks, lists and receipts. moj doesn’t just file things. It answers too. Try “What’s on at the weekend?”, “Who’s got what tomorrow?” or “What did we spend in September?”

The answer is one to three lines long, with days and times. If you asked for a total, the total is included.

moj looks through what is open and coming up over the next few weeks. For receipts it looks at the most recent ones, not the whole archive. If moj finds nothing, it says so in one line instead of making something up.

Which sentences change something that’s already there?

You change things just as casually as you added them. moj works out which open entry you mean:

• Done. “Bins are out”, “Bought the milk”, “Electricity paid”.
• Cancelled. “Dentist cancelled”, “Parents’ evening is off”, “No milk after all”.
• Moved. “Dentist moved to Friday 10am”.
• Extended. “Sina is staying till 9.30pm tomorrow”.
• Taken on. “I’ll take Mo to swimming today” adds you to the appointment.
• Another person. “not Lina, Mo” changes who an entry is for.
• A new rhythm. “only on Tuesdays from November” changes a series.

If you talk about something that has already happened, moj ticks it off. If you talk about something still to come, it adds it as a new entry.

If two entries fit equally well, say two appointments called “Dentist”, moj asks a quick question rather than guessing. If it finds nothing open at all, it tells you exactly that.

Who owns what you send?

At first it belongs to you and your household. Four things you can say change that:

• “just for me”. “private” or “nobody else needs to see this” also make an entry “Only me”. Only you can see it.
• A name. “for Mo” or “Ben has to …”. The entry then belongs to that person and appears in their column in the week view.
• “for everyone”. Then everyone in the space sees it. “For the parents” means something else: it says who has to do something, not who can see it.
• Another list. “on Grandma’s list” goes to the other household’s shopping list. If you have made your own list, its name works the same way: “on the chemist list”.

If there are two grandmas, moj asks and offers you both. Add the name, such as “Grandma Ilse”, and it is clear straight away.

How do you ask the others for help?

Ask a question, just as you would out loud: “who can take Lina tomorrow from 7am to 2pm?”. moj adds the appointment for Lina and replies “I’ll ask the others who can take it on.” If the appointment is already in the calendar, moj asks about that one rather than adding a second. What happens next is explained on “Who takes it?”.

What doesn’t moj understand?

Short answers

Last updated 12 October 2026. Before this: getting started. After this: what to do when something ends up in the wrong place. And on paper, without the app: the printable templates.