Family Inbox — email to calendar

Your household has its own email address — something like [email protected]. Forward the school newsletter, the practice schedule, or a party invitation to it, and Plannie reads the email (attachments included) and adds what it finds to your calendar. The Family Inbox is part of Plannie Premium.

Set your address

Pick your handle under Settings → General → Family inbox. Changing it later means mail to the old address stops being read — Plannie asks you to confirm.

Choosing or changing the address needs an active Plannie Premium subscription. During the free trial and on the free plan the address is shown read-only — but your existing inbox keeps working, including approving senders. In the iPhone, iPad, and Android apps you can set it freely while we launch, like everything else.

Address it to the right people

Put the names it concerns in the subject line, comma-separated — "Vera, Liam" — and the events are attributed to them. You can add a category too (like "Sport"). Anything Plannie can't match goes in as general and is noted in the Activity log.

Only senders you approve

The first time a new address emails your inbox, the message is held and the household owner gets an "Approve this sender?" email with one-tap Approve / Decline. You get an answer straight away either way: approving confirms the sender and tells you how many held emails it's working through — they land on the calendar a moment later — while declining discards them and blocks the sender. You can do the same from the Family inbox settings in the app, which confirms the same way. Held mail is discarded after 30 days, and mail that fails authentication is dropped silently.

Confirmations

After processing, Plannie replies to the sender with a summary of what was added, one line per event with its date and time — so grandma knows the recital made it onto the calendar. Forwarding the same flyer twice won't create duplicates.

Any PDFs or photos on the email are kept too, and attached to the events they created — so the schedule or invitation is one tap away from the event itself in the calendar. See Attachments.