Magic Import

Magic Import reads the school flyer, the practice schedule PDF, or the event page link, and adds the dates for you. It's part of Plannie Premium.

Import from a photo or PDF

Open Magic Import (from Settings or the sparkle menu, or in a phone-sized browser window from More in the bottom bar), then take a photo, scan a document, or pick one from your library, up to four attachments at once, and tap Import. Plannie reads them in the background: a Working on it in the background card appears, the attachments clear so you can start another import right away, and you're free to leave the screen — or close Plannie entirely. When it's done, a short message tells you what was added (“Magic Import done — 2 events, 1 recipe”), and a notification arrives on your own devices if you've left the app. Every added item shows a checkmark with an Undo button, so nothing sticks that you didn't want — come back to Magic Import and the results are waiting there. The first time you tap Take photo, Plannie asks for camera access. If you've declined it before, the button explains that camera access is needed and offers an Open Settings shortcut to turn it back on.

Scan document (on iPhone, iPad and Android, not in the browser) scans a paper flyer or a multi-page letter, and each scanned page is attached as its own photo. If a scan has more pages than there's room for, Plannie keeps the first ones up to the four-attachment limit and tells you how many were added.

Photograph a recipe instead and Plannie saves it to your recipe collection, using your photo as the dish photo.

On iOS and Android, sharing a photo or PDF directly to Plannie from another app (Photos, Files) opens Magic Import with the files already attached. Review, add instructions if you like, and tap Import. On the free plan, a shared photo or file is saved to Files instead, and a Saved to Files message lets you open it.

Import from a link

Paste a link to an event page or a recipe. Link imports always show a preview first: check the parsed event (or recipe) and tap Confirm & add. Nothing is created until you confirm. A recipe preview shows the dish photo Plannie found on the page, with the instructions laid out as numbered steps. Sharing a link to Plannie from Safari (or any other app) lands here too. Links are read right there and then — the background wait above only applies to photos and PDFs.

Category / assign to

Both modes have a Category / assign to row above the instructions field:

• Tap one or more family members to say who the import belongs to. Everything Plannie adds gets assigned to them.
• Tap a category (calendar event, meal/recipe, or task/list item) to tell Plannie what kind of thing it's looking at, so it doesn't have to guess. You can pick more than one.
• The ? chip means Plannie decides on its own (the default). If you only pick people, Plannie still works out what the content is; your picks just set who it's for.

Link imports only ever produce events or recipes, so the task chip isn't shown there.

Good to know

• Both photo and link imports have an optional instructions field. Tell Plannie things like “assign these to Vera” or “save the recipe in Swedish” and it takes that into account.
• A to-do with a deadline in the source (“RSVP by 15 Aug”) arrives with a real due date on the list item and is assigned to whoever imported it, unless you picked family members in Category / assign to, or your instructions name someone else.
• The photo or PDF you imported is attached to the events it created. Open the event and tap the thumbnail to view it full-size.
• The “done” message and the notification only reach you — the person who started the import — on your own devices, not the shared family screen in the kitchen.
• Everything Magic Import adds is labeled in your Activity log, so you can always see where an event came from.
• Re-importing the same flyer won't create duplicates.
• Very heavy use may show a note about nearing the month's AI budget. See the fair-use note in Meet Plannie Assistant.