Daily briefings on WhatsApp, weekly digest by email.

Each of you gets your own, at the time you pick, on the app you already have open. Built from your calendar and your list.

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RRowan7:00
Your day
•Parents’ evening 16:30
Yours to do
•Sign the Y4 trip slip
•Call the dentist back
DDev8:15
Your day
•Standup 09:00
•Parents’ evening 16:30
Yours to do
•Book the 6-week check
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One message a morning. Yours, not the household’s.

1

Say hello on WhatsApp

Both of you, each from your own phone. That is where the briefing arrives.

2

Pick your time

Each of you chooses separately. School-gate, post-coffee, on the train. There is no household default you both have to live with.

3

It builds from what is already there

The calendar, the shared list, what came out of the school emails overnight. Nothing extra to fill in.

4

It splits yours from ours

Your calendar, your to-dos. Your partner’s own diary stays on their briefing.

It arrives where you already are.

An email you have to go and open is a to-do. A message in the app you check anyway is not.

Rowan’s, at 7:00. Built from her calendar and her list.

Your own time, not a household one.

Set it per parent. One of you reads at the school gate, the other on the train, and neither has to compromise on when the message lands.

It is your day, not the household’s.

Your calendar and your to-dos. Your partner’s work meetings are not in it, so you are not reading their day to find yours.

Nothing to fill in the night before.

It is built from the calendar, the shared list and whatever came out of the school emails while you were asleep.

The one that shows you what slipped.

A week is the unit you actually plan in, and the only view that tells you what did not happen.

Email · Sunday 18:00
Your week: 9 to 15 March
Coming up
•Mon: Y5 Bikeability starts, kit all week
•Wed: parents’ evening, 16:30
•Fri: non-uniform day, £1
Still open from last week
•Sign the Y4 trip slip
•Call the dentist back
Email, because this one is for sitting down with, not glancing at.

It tells you what slipped.

Not just what is coming. Anything still open from last week is listed, which is the bit a calendar will never show you.

Sunday evening, or whenever suits.

Sunday before the week starts is the default because that is when most people look, but the day is yours to change.

Also yours, not the household’s.

Each of you gets a version built from your own list, so the week you are shown is the week you are actually responsible for.

Briefings questions, answered.

What time does the morning briefing arrive?

Configurable per parent. Pick a time that fits when you actually look at your phone (school-gate, post-coffee, on the commute).

Why WhatsApp for the morning briefing but email for the weekly?

Different jobs. The morning one has to land where you will actually read it in the moment, and that is WhatsApp. The weekly one is for sitting down with, and email is better for that: you can open it on a laptop next to the calendar.

Do both parents get their own briefing?

Yes. Each of you gets your own version at your own time, and the shared things appear in both. Neither of you has to forward the other one their day.

Is this on the free plan?

The weekly digest is, on every plan. The daily briefing arrives on WhatsApp, so it comes with the paid plans, with a 14-day free trial.

Start the day knowing what is actually yours.

One message each morning, at your time, on the app you already have open.

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