Question 1

How do I keep track of all my kid's school events?

Accepted Answer

The hard part isn't the calendar itself — it's keeping track of the latest info that you care about. TLDR Parents helps by reading every school and activity email as it arrives, extracting the dates, times, and locations, and surfaces a calendar-ready agenda for you to approve for your Google Calendar.

Question 2

How do I stop missing school deadlines and sign-ups?

Accepted Answer

Most missed deadlines happen because the information was buried. TLDR Parents processes every family-related email automatically and surfaces deadlines, sign-up windows, and "what to bring" items in your Daily Briefing. Volunteer slot deadlines, picture-day order windows, permission slip due dates, and conference sign-ups are all extracted and highlighted before they pass.

Question 3

What's the best app for managing kids' activities across multiple schools?

Accepted Answer

The problem is upstream from the calendar — the information lives in multiple inboxes, newsletters, and evolving activity updates. TLDR Parents reads across all of them, attributes each event to the right child automatically, and surfaces everything in one family feed. One place, all kids, all schools, all activities.

Question 4

How do I share school events with my spouse or partner?

Accepted Answer

TLDR Parents creates a single family calendar feed that both parents can see. When the system extracts an event from a school email, both parents see the same proposed event and sync it to their family's Google Calendar with one click. The Daily Briefing is sent to account Family Members, so the household defaults to "we both know" instead of "I forgot to tell you."

Question 5

How does TLDR Parents work, step by step?

Accepted Answer

Sign up at app.hellopenny.ai and connect Gmail via Google's official OAuth flow. TLDR Parents never sees your Google password. TLDR Parents automatically identifies which incoming emails are school- or activity-related and labels them in Gmail to show you which emails are processed. AI extracts events, deadlines, locations, and action items from each family-related email. Extracted events appear in your personalized family feed. You review them and sync to Google Calendar with one click — nothing is added without your approval. Every morning, a Daily Briefing email summarizes what's coming up for the family that day and that week.

Question 6

How long does setup take?

Accepted Answer

Under two minutes. Sign up, connect Gmail through Google's Authorization (OAuth) screen, and TLDR Parents starts processing incoming family-related email immediately. Most users see their first extracted events in minutes.

Question 7

Is TLDR Parents safe? Does it read all of my email?

Accepted Answer

TLDR Parents only processes emails it identifies as family- or school-related, or emails forwarded or labeled by you for processing. It does not read or store the rest of your mailbox. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, connections to Google use OAuth (no password handling), and access is logged and monitored. The AI provider used for event extraction is contractually prohibited from training on your data. TLDR Parents does not sell personal information, does not use your data for advertising, and does not share SMS opt-in data with third-party marketers. Full details on the Trust & Safety page.

Question 8

How much does TLDR Parents cost?

Accepted Answer

$10 per month or $100 per year per family. Includes a full-featured free trial. After the trial, accounts without a subscription revert to a limited free tier (10 emails per month). One subscription covers the whole household.

Question 9

What calendar apps does TLDR Parents support?

Accepted Answer

Google Calendar is the primary integration. Extracted events sync directly to your existing Google Calendar with one click. TLDR Parents may read your calendar to highlight potential conflicts and to surface what's scheduled in the Daily Briefing. People who use Apple Calendar or Outlook may be guests of TLDR Parents calendar events and also may subscribe to the TLDR Parents family Calendar Feed (iCal). Direct integrations for additional calendars are on the roadmap.

Question 10

Does TLDR Parents require schools to do anything?

Accepted Answer

No. TLDR Parents works entirely from the parent's inbox. Schools, sports leagues, and activity coordinators do not need to install or sign up for anything. Any email format works, including newsletters, PDFs, image attachments, plain text, and HTML.

Question 11

Does TLDR Parents work for co-parenting households?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Co-parents in separate households can each have their own TLDR Parents account connected to their own Gmail, and each will see events from emails their household receives. Co-parents may also add each other as 'Family Guests' to be TLDR Parents calendar event invitees while maintaining distinct accounts. For couples in the same household, one account covers both parents.

Question 12

What kinds of emails does TLDR Parents process?

Accepted Answer

School newsletters, PTO and PTA announcements, classroom updates, sports schedules, music and dance lessons, scouts, summer camps, after-school programs, religious school emails, library and community programs — anything family-related. Personal email, work email, and marketing are ignored. Any email that gets ignored can still be processed — forward it to us or apply a Gmail label to include it. Auto-forwarding rules and Gmail filters work too, so you can pull in content from any account or source.

Question 13

Will TLDR Parents send email or change my calendar without permission?

Accepted Answer

No. TLDR Parents will not send email on your behalf without explicit permission, and will not add, modify, or delete calendar events without your approval. Every extracted event is proposed for review; you decide what syncs.

Question 14

What is the Daily Briefing?

Accepted Answer

The Daily Briefing is a short email delivered each morning. It lists the family's events for that day and the week ahead, upcoming deadlines, and new items extracted from emails received in the last 24 hours. It is designed to be the one thing a parent reads to feel caught up.

Question 15

How do I cancel or delete my account?

Accepted Answer

You can disconnect Google access or delete your account at any time from settings in the web app, or by emailing support@hellopenny.ai. After deletion, data is removed from active systems within a reasonable period, typically within 30 days.

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