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About this page: written for houses

This page describes houses, what Doorprints keeps track of by default. If you also track schools (What you track, Experimental: more than houses), a school has other fields: see More than houses (experimental).

Compare houses

  1. Open Compare.
  2. Pick two to four houses. Shortlisted houses are offered first. Rejected and Not chosen houses are left out. To bring one back, change its status to Shortlisted or New.

Each row shows one detail: overall score, price, BHK, your rating, visits, street and each checklist item. On the website, the best value in each row is highlighted and marked ✓. Choose a house's name to open it.

Compare on the website: Green Villa and Sunrise Apartments side by side, with the best values highlighted

Compare on Android: two sample houses side by side with overall score, price, BHK, rating, visits and checklist rows

Plan a round of visits

Two features use AI (the computer reads your notes and works things out for you):

  • Plan visits puts the houses you want to see into a walking route.
  • Ask answers questions from your own notes, such as "Which house had the best water supply?"

Both need AI turned on, in one of two ways: your own server with AI features on, or the AI provider you chose, with your own key with no server at all. Until then, Ask and Plan do not show in the website's menu, and the phones have no Assistant tab.

When AI is on, to plan on the website:

  1. Open Plan.
  2. Describe what you want to see, for example "Shortlisted 2BHKs under 35k this afternoon".
  3. Set the Start point.
  4. Choose Plan route.

To plan on Android:

  1. Open Assistant.
  2. Open Plan visits.
  3. Tap Plan from my location.

Plan visits leaves out Rejected and Not chosen houses too, in the same way as Compare.

The walking times are only a rough guess.

Plan my visits on the website without a server: a note says this needs your own server with AI turned on, with a Connect link

(Without AI, you reach this page only by typing its address. The menu hides Plan until AI is on.)

The Android Assistant screen when AI is off: The assistant is not available right now, with Try again and Go to the map

What Ask and Plan look like with AI on

These pictures show the website with AI turned on. They were made with three made-up houses and a stand-in for the AI service on the same computer: nothing was sent anywhere and no key was used. The words of each answer were scripted, so every picture below is an example answer. Your own answers depend on the AI service and model you choose.

Ask with an answer that cites its houses. Each number in the answer (1) opens the house it comes from, and Houses this answer uses (2) lists them:

Ask on the website, example answer: the question "Which house has the best water supply?" is answered from two saved houses, with numbered links to Green View 2BHK and Lakeview 2BHK

When your saved houses do not say, Ask gives one fixed sentence and cites no house:

Ask on the website, example answer: for a question your houses cannot answer, the fixed answer "I don't know based on the houses you have saved." with a note that it is not backed by your saved houses

Plan with your request (1) and the route it makes (2): the saved houses that match, in walking order, with a rough time for each leg:

Plan on the website, example answer: a request for shortlisted 2BHKs under 35k gives a two-stop route, Green View 2BHK then Lakeview 2BHK, with the distance and walking time of each leg

To see what we test, and how it did the last time we measured it, see What we test.