Forward the school email. It pulls out the dates, asks you once whether it got them right, and puts the day on the fridge.
Ben's karate and Ana's dance
are both at six.
Dana was down to drive both.
You used to find that out
at six.
Now you find it out
on Sunday.
Forward it. That is the whole setup.
The queue below is the product. Every guess shows the email it came from, what it concluded, and waits.
The bit nobody else catches
Nothing is wrong with Ben at karate and Ana at dance. Both at six, in different places, is a perfectly ordinary Thursday — until you notice Dana is down to drive to both. No other calendar sees it, because none of them store who drives.
not a scoreboard —
just the gaps.
The person being scheduled
Every other family app takes input from the adult doing the coordinating. The child is data in somebody else's calendar. How an eight-year-old feels about Thursdays is not in any inbox — no model can infer it, because it does not exist until she says so.
What it learned, and how to correct it
It writes down how the household actually runs. Plain sentences, in a list, with a button on every one.
Everyone else's assistant learns silently. Ours hands you the list.
Where it lives
We sell no hardware. Everything past the phone is optional — a tablet out of the drawer, a proper panel later, or never.
This is where the work happens: confirming what the school email said, adding the thing you were told at the door, saying who is driving. It is also the only screen that can reach you when you are not in the kitchen.
The notification carries nothing. It is an empty tap on the shoulder — your phone wakes and asks our server what it was about. Google and Apple never see a child's afternoon.
Everything after this is optional. A screen on the wall is the same day, shared with the people who do not have a phone yet.
| Screen | Cost | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your phone | $0 | Where the confirming and the adding actually happen |
| A dead tablet | $0 | Retired, not broken. It is plugged in, so the flat battery does not matter |
| E-ink, 7.5″ | est. CA$196 | Three months on a charge. No glow. Cannot become a tablet, which is the point |
| E-ink, 10.3″ | est. CA$322 | The fridge board. The week, not just the day |
Panel prices are TRMNL's, shown as their Canadian store showed them on 5 September 2026 — US$139 and US$229 before conversion. Shipping and any duty are on top. We do not sell the hardware and we do not set the price, so treat every figure here as an estimate and check theirs before you buy.
| Mon7 | Tue8 | Wed9 | Thu10 | Fri11 | Sat12 | Sun13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana | ♫ 4:00 pm Choir | ▣ 8:45 am Picture day ♫ 4:00 pm Choir ≋ 5:00 pm Swimming ▲ 6:00 pm Karate ✧ 6:00 pm Dance | ≋ 10:00 am Swim meet | ||||
| Ben | ⌂ 6:30 pm Cubs | ▪ 4:00 pm Tutoring | ≋ 7:30 am Swim squad ▪ 4:00 pm Tutoring ⬤ 5:00 pm Football ⌂ 6:30 pm Cubs | ⬤ 9:30 am Football | |||
| driving | ↻ Dana | ↻ Nan | ↻ Nan | ↻ Dana↻ Nan↻ Sam | ↻ Sam |
They are not the same picture at two sizes. The 7.5″ is widescreen and one bit — black or white, nothing between, so a clash is an inverted block rather than red, which reads harder across a kitchen anyway. The 10.3″ is nearly square, has sixteen greys to spend, and draws the whole week — a row per child, a column per day, and who is driving underneath. That is the shape the paper calendar on the fridge always had. Same wall, two different drawings.
Which leaves out the person in the house who most needs to know what today is. Every activity carries a symbol, so a four-year-old can look up at the fridge and know there is swimming.
Drawn flat, not emoji — an e-ink panel has one colour to spend, and a coloured picture turns to mud on it.
ben knows the wavy one
means swimming.
Where the data sits
Every serious competitor is American, and so is their storage. Your children's weekly routine sits in a US cloud, reachable under the CLOUD Act. That is not a slogan for us — it is an architecture.
We forward a school
newsletter to a server
in Kelowna.
Not to Virginia.
What it costs
The software is free either way. What you are paying for is not having to run mail, a server, and backups for the rest of your life.
A grandparent gets Tuesdays until December, and then stops. Not an account with your whole life in it.