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Tips for busy school weeks
Practical ideas for keeping up with school and activity email.
- Switching apps
Maple shuts down December 31. Where should you go?
Maple says it will sunset on December 31, 2026 after being acquired by Wander. What happens to your data, and how to choose a replacement by the job Maple was doing for you.
- Sharing the load
Why the other parent never opens the app
Family apps rarely fail because a partner does not care. They fail because asking the other parent is easier than opening the app. A cold-start problem, not a motivation one.
- The mental load
Not all of it should be automated
Some of what you notice about your children is the real work of parenting. Some of it is reading correspondence. Treating them as one thing is why the advice never lands.
- Back to school
The back-to-school handoff nobody schedules
The start of the school year brings a wave of school admin, and most of it lands in your inbox unstructured, with deadlines buried inside. Why it is harder than the rest of the year, and what to do about it.