Power-user setup · iPhone
Capture by voice in two seconds.
Say “Hey Siri, HomeHQ” and start talking. The HomeHQ Siri Shortcut transcribes whatever you say and drops it into your /insights queue as a task you confirm later. Walking the dog, driving, hands full — the friction goes from “open the app, find the input, tap, type” to just talk.
Install
Add the HomeHQ Shortcut
Tap below on your iPhone. iOS will open the Shortcuts app and ask you to confirm installation.
Add to Shortcuts →iPhone only · iOS 15 or later
What it does
Dictate → email → insight.
The Shortcut runs three steps on your phone, all local:
- 1Siri opens a dictation prompt. You talk.
- 2The transcript is emailed to your household's private forward-in address (the same
u-…@inbound.homehqapp.comyou may have already set up under Settings → Inbox). - 3HomeHQ's existing inbound pipeline picks up the email, extracts tasks, and surfaces them on /insights for you to confirm.
Setup
Three taps.
- 1
Tap the install button
The Add to Shortcuts button above. On your iPhone, Safari opens the Shortcuts app and previews the actions: Dictate Text → Send Email.
- 2
Paste your household address
The first time the Shortcut runs, it asks for the email address it should send your dictation to. That's your household's private inbound address — unique to you.
Grab it from Settings → Voice capture (it looks like
u-…@inbound.homehqapp.com). Paste it when prompted. Shortcuts remembers your answer — you only do this once.You'll also be asked to allow access to Mail and Speech Recognition. Tap Allow on each — iOS handles everything on device.
- 3
Try it
Say “Hey Siri, HomeHQ”. Siri opens the dictation prompt. Talk. When you stop, Siri sends the email and you're done. Check /insights in a minute — your note appears as a suggested task to confirm.
Privacy
The Shortcut runs entirely on your phone. Dictation uses Apple's on-device Speech Recognition. The transcript is sent via your Mail app to your household's private inbound address — same pipeline as the email forwarding rules you may already use. We never store raw audio. We never store the raw email body — only the extracted task suggestions, which you confirm before they land.