How to organize a family's schedule when it lives in five places
A practical method for pulling a family's dates out of five apps and group threads into one place, and keeping them there through a season.
Guides
Guides for the person who organizes everyone else
Written for one specific job each. How to get a season out of a message, a date off a piece of paper, and a backlog of screenshots into something you can actually see. Every guide here is about a thing the app does today.
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Comparing shared family calendar apps, from Cozi to TimeTree
Cozi, TimeTree, FamilyWall, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Looped In side by side: what is free, what costs money, and which phones each one needs.
What to do when the group text is the schedule
The real schedule is in message 340 of a thread with eleven people in it. How to pull the facts out without trying to move the conversation.
How to share a season schedule with the other parent and the team
Get everyone looking at the same dates without charging the people you invite, without a seat count, and without making the invite feel like homework.
How to set up one place for the school year before the paperwork starts
A structure you build once in September, so the class notices, the PTA dates and each kid's activities have somewhere to land all year.
What to do with the screenshots you took and forgot
Your Screenshots album is a to-do list nobody wrote down. A one sitting method for clearing it, and which kinds of screenshot read well and which do not.
How to turn the flyer on the fridge into a calendar event
Photograph a paper notice and get the date, the time and the thing you have to bring, without typing it. How to shoot paper so it reads cleanly.
How to get a sports season schedule into your calendar from a text
The coach sent the whole season as one message. Here is how to turn it into dated events, including the repeating practices, without typing any of it.