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37 entries · 34 prompts, 1 personas, 2 workflows

Family logistics

Shared calendars, chores, school runs, household emergencies and family events.

  • Audit the family's activity load

    Audits all the children's clubs and lessons together for hours, driving, cost and clashes, and helps the family decide what to keep, swap or drop so the week has room to breathe.

  • Coordinate the family week

    Builds a weekly family logistics plan from everyone's schedules, flagging conflicts and covering school runs, activities, meals, a fair split of jobs and a short weekly sync.

  • Create a chore chart

    Creates an age-appropriate chore chart for a family's children, with effort points for a fair rotation, a clear definition of done for each job and a simple reward system.

  • Extract actions from school messages

    Turns a pile of pasted school emails, newsletters and app messages into one dated list of actions, payments, forms, kit and events per child, with owners and nothing invented.

  • Family organiser

    Acts as a calm, practical family organiser who turns a household's tangle of schedules, school admin, childcare and jobs into clear plans with owners, dates and backups.

  • Funeral planning track

    Guides a family through arranging a funeral in gated steps, from wishes and budget to arrangements, telling people, the service itself and the tasks after the service.

  • Manage kids' clothes as they grow

    Sets up a system for children's clothes across sizes and seasons, with a size log, hand-me-down boxes between siblings, a seasonal check and a needs-only shopping list.

  • Map school-holiday cover for the year

    Maps every school-holiday and closure day of the year against both parents' leave, relatives, camps and swaps, so each day has cover and leave is shared fairly before it gets booked.

  • Match childcare to shift rotas

    Lines up two adults' shift rotas against school and childcare hours over a full rota cycle, finds every uncovered hour, and plans cover, handovers and sleep for night workers.

  • Moving house track

    Takes a household through a move step by step, from timeline and decluttering to movers, address changes, a packing plan and the first week, pausing for approval between steps.

  • Plan an au pair's arrival

    Prepares a host family for an au pair, with a weekly schedule inside the agreed hours, their room, house rules, a first-fortnight settling plan, and regular check-ins.

  • Plan back-to-school admin

    Builds the start-of-year admin checklist for each child, covering uniform and kit, forms, payments, lunch and travel arrangements, clubs, dates for the calendar and who does what, with deadlines.

  • Plan a family meeting

    Plans a family meeting on a shared issue such as care for a parent, money or holidays, with an agenda, ground rules, roles, a decision method and a summary to send afterwards.

  • Plan a grandparent childcare arrangement

    Sets up regular childcare by grandparents or other relatives with clear days, house rules, money, safety basics, backup cover and a review, so it works without straining the relationship.

  • Plan holiday visits between families

    Plans how a couple or blended family shares holidays between relatives, with rotation options, travel limits, a fair script for telling relatives and a way to keep one tradition of their own.

  • Plan household cover for a parent's surgery

    Plans how a family runs while a parent has planned surgery and recovers, covering childcare, school runs, meals, lifting limits and help rotas from the week before until they are back to normal.

  • Plan kids' belongings across two homes

    Sorts what a child keeps at each of two homes, what travels and what to double up, with a handover bag checklist and a plan for school kit, medicines and devices.

  • Plan a nanny share

    Sets up a nanny share between two families, with a fit check, host-home rota, fair cost split, shared rules, sick-day and holiday cover, and an agreement to sign with the nanny.

  • Plan relatives' extended stay

    Plans a week or more of relatives staying in the family home, with sleeping arrangements, keeping the children's routines, shared meals and costs, breathing space, and agreed expectations.

  • Plan a school-holiday childcare swap

    Organises a childcare swap or shared care rota with other families for the school holidays, with a fair schedule, ground rules, a contact sheet and a backup plan.

  • Plan a school-run carpool

    Sets up a school-run carpool with neighbouring families, with a fair rota, pickup rules, car seat and safety checks, a contact list and a cancellation plan.

  • Plan an older sibling babysitting

    Decides whether and how an older child looks after younger siblings, with a readiness check, a short trial, clear rules, emergency steps, fair pay or thanks, and limits so it stays fair.

  • Plan sick-day childcare cover

    Builds a household plan for days a child is too ill for school or nursery, or school shuts, with a call-down list, a fair split between working parents and a 7am decision routine.

  • Plan a solo-parenting stretch

    Plans the practical side of running the household alone for days or weeks while the other parent travels for work, finding the two-places-at-once clashes and lining up help in advance.

  • Plan a walking bus or bike train

    Organises a walking bus or bike train to school with neighbouring families, with a route and stops, a volunteer rota, adult-to-child ratios, safety rules, weather plans and a sign-up form.

  • Plan working from home with kids around

    Plans a workable day for one or two parents working from home with children in the house, with a shared schedule, focus blocks, meeting cover, signals and realistic expectations by age.

  • Set up a family command centre

    Designs one place, on a wall or in an app, where the family's calendar, school papers, lists, keys and daily jobs live, sized to the space and kept up by a weekly reset.

  • Share the family car with a new driver

    Sets up how a household shares one car once a teen or young adult starts driving, with booking, insurance checks, costs, house driving rules and a staged plan for passengers and night driving.

  • Split the mental load fairly

    Helps a couple or household make invisible family work visible, from remembering birthdays to booking appointments, and share it out fairly with clear end-to-end ownership.

  • Split pet care among the kids

    Shares a family pet's daily care between children by age and ability, with a rota, adult checks on the welfare-critical jobs, and a plan for when the novelty wears off.

  • Streamline school mornings

    Streamlines school-day mornings with a backwards timed schedule, a night-before routine, picture or word checklists per child and specific fixes for the household's bottlenecks.

  • Vet a new babysitter

    Helps parents vet an occasional babysitter with screening questions, an interview, reference checks, a paid trial, safety basics to confirm and a fair pay rate to agree.

  • Write a babysitter handbook

    Writes a handbook for a regular babysitter, nanny or temporary guardian with each child's routines, allergies, emergency steps, screen rules and how the parents handle common situations.

  • Write a family emergency plan

    Writes a household emergency plan with contacts, meeting points, hazard-specific actions, medical information, a go-bag list and a role for each family member, ready to print.

  • Write a house, pet or babysitter guide

    Writes a guide for a house sitter, pet sitter or babysitter with routines, house quirks, emergency contacts and procedures, and what to do if something breaks, with gaps marked to fill in.

  • Write a lost-child plan for outings

    Writes a family plan for getting separated in a crowded place such as a festival, beach, airport or theme park, with what each child does, contact details on them, and the adults' first ten minutes.

  • Write a school absence note or request

    Writes a parent's note or request to school for an illness, appointment, family event or term-time leave, with dates, a reason at the right level of detail and a catch-up plan.

Not: caring for an ill, disabled or ageing relative (caregiving); planning a large event such as a wedding or reunion (event-planning).