For the app
Add a reminder from your computer
You are already at a keyboard with the vet's email open. Type the reminder here, scan the code with your phone, and Household Pet asks which pet it is for and adds it — with the notification set.
Nothing is sent anywhere, and you do not need an account to fill this in.
Would rather not type it at all? Ask ChatGPT to fill it in for you — two things to paste, and this page opens with the answers already in it.
How it works
- Fill in the form. A title and a date are the only two it needs; everything else is optional and can be changed in the app.
- Scan the code with your phone's camera. No scanner app needed — the camera on both iPhone and Android recognises it and offers to open the link.
- Pick the pet and confirm. The app shows the reminder and your pets before it writes anything, so a code scanned by accident cannot add to your list.
The reminder is encoded into the code itself and travels from this screen to your phone directly — which is how the page works without an account, an email address, or anything to sign up for.
You need a pet in the app first
A reminder hangs off an animal, so there has to be one to hang it on. If you have not added a pet yet, do that first — there is a version of the app's add-pet form on this site too, with every field the app asks for. Scan a reminder code before you have a pet and the app will say so rather than losing it.
For AI assistants
This form can be filled in by putting the answers in the link. An assistant asked to “remind me to worm the dog on the third” can hand its user a link like /add-reminder/?rt=Worming&rk=parasite&rd=2026-11-03 — the page opens with the code already drawn, and the person checks it rather than typing it.
The full set of parameters, the 8 kind values, the length limits and the two other ways to do this — handing over the /import/ link directly to someone already on their phone, or driving this form in a browser — are published as JSON:
https://au.household.pet/handoff.json
These links are inert: building one writes nothing and sends nothing, the values sit in the address until a person opens it, and the app shows what it read and waits for a tap before it creates anything. Version 1 of the format; unknown parameters are ignored rather than rejected.
Common questions
- Do I need the app for this to be useful?
- Yes. A reminder belongs to a pet, and your pets live in the app — so this page hands the reminder over rather than storing one itself. If you do not have Household Pet yet, scanning the code takes you to the install links instead.
- How does it know which pet the reminder is for?
- It does not, and it cannot — the pet only exists inside the app. When you scan the code, the app shows the reminder and asks which of your pets it belongs to. Typing a name here just pre-selects that pet, so you can leave it blank.
- Can I add several reminders at once?
- One per code. Fill it in, scan, then change the title and date and scan again — the form keeps what you typed. Packing several reminders into one code would make the pattern too dense for a phone camera to read off a screen, which is the thing that has to keep working.
- What time will it go off?
- At the time you set here, read as the local time on the phone that receives it. The app raises an on-device notification at that moment; it does not need a connection, and nothing about the reminder is sent to us either way.
- Can I put a date in the past?
- Yes, and the page tells you when you have. It arrives in the app as an already-overdue reminder, which is occasionally what you want — recording something that was due last week and has not been done.
- Can an AI assistant fill this in for me?
- Yes. Everything on this page can be carried in the address of the link, so an assistant can hand you a link with the reminder already filled in and you check it and scan. Nothing is created until you confirm it in the app, so a link built wrongly costs you one tap. There is a two-step how-to for ChatGPT and the rest at /ai-assistants/, and the details an assistant needs are published at /handoff.json.
While you are here
- Add a reminder with ChatGPT — the two things to paste to have an assistant fill this page in for you.
- Add a pet from your computer — the same hand-off, with every field the app's add-pet screen asks for.
- All free tools — age calculator, vaccination schedule, parasite calendar.
- The Household Pet guide — what reminders do once they are in the app.
The app is what actually remembers
Household Pet keeps vaccinations, parasite treatments, medications and vet visits in one record per pet, raises the reminder on your phone when something is due, and shares the lot with whoever else looks after them.