Horse Care Assistant
Category: Rider Features
Overview
The Horse Care Assistant keeps track of your horses' routine care — farrier, worming, dental, vet visits and vaccinations — and reminds you when each one is coming up. The clever part: instead of filling in forms, you just tell it in plain English what you've done, and it works out when the task is next due.
Say "wormed today" or "farrier came yesterday", and the assistant logs it and sets the next reminder. It can nudge you by email or text message as each task approaches, and you can reply to those messages to mark things done — even from the paddock.
Good to know: the assistant tracks scheduling — when routine care is due. It's a reminder tool, not veterinary advice: always follow your vet's and farrier's guidance for the care itself.
Opening the Care Assistant
The Care Assistant lives on each horse's Health page and is the first tab you land on.
- Go to My Horses (
/rider/horses). - On one of your horses, click the green Health button.
- You'll arrive on the Care Assistant tab.
The page has two parts: your Care reminders at the top, and the Assistant chat below.
The Health button appears on horses you own. For a horse someone has shared with you, care tracking stays with the owner.
Care Reminders
Each reminder is one routine task for the horse, with how often it repeats and when it's next due. Cards are colour‑coded by status — Overdue, Due soon or Upcoming — and give you one‑tap Done and Snooze buttons.
Adding a reminder by hand
Click + Add to open the reminder form.
Choose the Task, set how often it repeats under Every (for example, every 6 weeks), enter when it was Last completed, and choose how many days before the due date you'd like to be reminded. Horsify starts you off with sensible default intervals:
| Care task | Default reminder interval |
|---|---|
| Farrier | 6 weeks |
| Worming | 3 months |
| Dental | 12 months |
| Vet visit | 12 months |
| Vaccination | 12 months |
If a club or agistment centre already handles something for you, tick "I manage this elsewhere (don't remind me)" to keep it on the record without the nudges.
Marking a task done
When a task is complete, either tap Done on its card, or just tell the assistant (see below). The reminder rolls forward to its next due date automatically. Anything you log against Vaccination is also saved to the horse's Vaccinations tab, so everything's in one place.
Just Tell the Assistant
The chat box is the quickest way to keep things up to date. Type — or tap the microphone and dictate — what happened, in ordinary language.
Things that work well:
- "wormed today"
- "farrier came yesterday"
- "teeth done on Monday"
- "vet visit done, remind me again in a year"
- "remind me again in six weeks"
- "Hendra done" (understood as a vaccination)
There are also a few quick commands you can type any time, in upper or lower case:
| Type | What it does |
|---|---|
| DONE | Marks the reminder just mentioned as done and sets the next due date |
| SNOOZE | Pushes a reminder out (a week by default) — e.g. "snooze 3 days" |
| WHAT'S DUE | Lists what's coming up |
| YES / NO | Confirms or cancels a change the assistant has asked you to check |
| HELP | Shows examples |
When it checks with you first: if a message is vague about timing, or mentions more than one horse, the assistant reads the change back and asks you to reply YES to confirm before saving anything. Clear, dated, single‑horse messages are applied straight away.
Best for short messages. The assistant is designed for quick notes like the examples above — not for pasting long vet letters or feed plans. Tell it what was done and when, and let it handle the scheduling.
Reminders by Email and Text
You don't have to open the app to stay on top of care. Horsify sends up to a few gentle nudges per task as it approaches — Coming up, Due, and a final Overdue nudge — during the day (never in the middle of the night). If a nudge comes by text message, you can simply reply (for example, DONE) to update the reminder without opening Horsify.
The Quick Reference Guide
There's a handy public guide at horsify.com.au/care that summarises the quick commands, the plain‑English examples, and the default reminder intervals — useful to share or keep bookmarked.
Good to Know
- Nothing is saved silently if it's unclear. Vague timing or a message about more than one horse is always read back for you to confirm first.
- It only tracks horses on your account. If you name a horse it doesn't recognise, it'll say so rather than guess.
- Future dates aren't accepted — you log care that has already happened.
- Voice dictation is available on supported browsers (a microphone button appears when it is).
- If a task has no fixed schedule for you, mark it "I manage this elsewhere" to stop the reminders while keeping the record.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can I say to it? Short, everyday notes: "wormed today", "farrier came yesterday", "teeth done Monday", "remind me again in six weeks". It understands the task and the date and sets the next reminder.
Can I log two horses at once? Yes — e.g. "Bella and Comet wormed today". Because it touches more than one horse, it'll ask you to reply YES to confirm.
Do I have to use the chat? No. Every reminder card has Done and Snooze buttons, and you can add or edit reminders with the form. The chat is just the fastest option.
Will it give me health or dosing advice? No — it's a scheduling assistant for routine care. Follow your vet's and farrier's advice for the care itself.
Do vaccinations logged here show up anywhere else? Yes. A vaccination you complete in the Care Assistant is also saved to the horse's Vaccinations tab.
How will I be reminded? By in‑app reminders and, where set up, email or text nudges as each task approaches — with a final nudge if something's overdue.
Related
- Horse Health Declarations — completing horse health and welfare declarations for events.
- Sharing a Horse with Other Riders — let other riders nominate your horse for events.
The Horse Care Assistant turns "wormed today" into a tracked schedule with the next due date worked out for you, and nudges you by email or text so routine farrier, worming, dental, vet and vaccination care never slips.\n\n---\n\nSource: wiki/features/HORSE_CARE_ASSISTANT.md \nLast synced: 2026-07-19 22:05:36 UTC