FROM Mrs. Porter
TO parent@example.com
DATE Tue, Sep 9
Hi families, we’re celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday this Friday with Spirit Week. Friday is “Cat in the Hat,” kids should come in costume.
halfday
Get half your day back.
Connect your inbox. Halfday reads the school, sports, and camp emails as they arrive and turns them into one short list per kid, per day, with enough lead time to actually do them.
We scan for your kids’ school and activities. Nothing else.
Twenty emails a week is a part-time job.
School, sports, dance, doctor, camp. Every one hides a date, a form, or a thing to buy, and reading them all is how your evening disappears. The calendar was never the problem. Feeding it is.
Three inputs. One list.
Most of what runs your week falls into three buckets. We handle all three, then merge them per kid, per day. You stop assembling the list.
Forward what matters.
The school newsletter. The dance studio email. The camp portal. The pediatrician's reminder. Forward only those, from any inbox, any provider, to your private Halfday address. We read those, and only those.
Forward the spring concert email → “Wear white shirt, Friday 6:30 PM” appears on Emma’s list, with the shopping step earlier in the week.
Add the routines you already know.
Tuesday library books. Wednesday orthodontist. Friday lunch money. Set them once. They show up on the right kid’s day, every week. They skip school breaks automatically.
“Pack swim cap, Thursdays after school” appears on Jake’s Thursday, automatically.
Drop in the rest by hand.
The text from another parent. The playdate you just confirmed. The thing your kid mentioned in the car. Pick a kid, pick a day, done.
Coach Ramirez texts that Saturday’s scrimmage moved to 9 AM. Add to Jake’s Saturday in ten seconds.
Set it up once. Then put it down.
Forward the kid stuff.
From any provider: Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud. Just the kid stuff. The rest of your inbox stays yours.
Add what you already know.
The recurring routines and the one-offs. Two minutes per kid. We catch the rest as the emails come in.
Read the short list in the morning.
At 6:30 AM, one digest per kid. Emma · three things today. Two need lead time. Tap any item to see exactly where it came from. Mark done, or don’t.
The prep happens before the thing.
Other tools tell you Spirit Week is Friday. We tell you to buy the costume by Tuesday.
Other tools put the well-visit on the calendar. We surface it in March, when there’s still an appointment before camp paperwork is due June 1.
You don’t forget the big things. You forget the tiny ones. We catch the tiny ones.
Emmathis week
- Buy Dr. Seuss costume by Tue
- Spirit Week · Friday
Jakethis week
- Dance recital costume · Wed
- Soccer scrimmage · Sat 9 AM
We see only what you forward. No Gmail OAuth, no inbox connection. Works with any provider.
The week most parents are quietly running.
Honestly, this is one of the worst underrated parts of parenting.
I saw the camp deposit email in April. I found it again in May. They'd given his spot away.
The pediatrician sent the well-visit reminder. I meant to schedule. Now they're booked out three months, and her camp form needs that signature.
If it's not on the calendar, it doesn't happen, and getting it into the calendar is the whole problem.
62% of parents have missed an important kid event. 71% say they feel like a bad parent when they do.
Your evenings are waiting.
Set up in about a minute. Halfday starts reading the moment you connect.