How Joey works | Say the plan, Joey does the rest

Add Joey

Add Joey to your family group

Add Joey's number to the WhatsApp group with both parents in it. In the chat, Joey asks one parent for an email, sends a code, and asks three questions: who is in the household, what tone you like, and which shared Google Calendar to use.

Then talk like you already do:

A line in the group. "I'll take Zac to swimming Saturday at 10."
A voice note. Walking out of pickup with a kid on each hand. Joey hears the plan in it.
A forwarded email. Forward the newsletter to joey@quantrim.com from a registered parent address.
A photo. The notice on the fridge, the invite from the school bag, a screenshot of the club app.
A calendar link. "Joey, the school calendar is <link>." New dates arrive as questions.

Joey reads it

It finds the plan, and asks

Joey picks the plan out of ordinary chat: who, what, when, and which child. A forwarded email or a photo becomes one question per date, quoting the line it came from. Two questions at a time, the rest held for "Joey, the rest".

No invented dates. If the notice has nothing dated, Joey says so and names the sender.
Repeats understood. "Swimming every Tuesday at 4" is one entry that repeats. "Skip swimming this week" skips only that one.
Australian dates, always. 05/03 is the 5th of March.

Family group

📎 Fwd: Year 3 incursion, Term 3 Week 2

Two dates in that. First: "Incursion Wed 22 Jul, sports uniform." Add it for Ruby? 👍

👍

Added. Next: "$8 via QKR by Mon 20 Jul." Add a to-do? 👍

You confirm

Nothing sticks until you say so

Every plan is a question. A 👍 from a parent writes it. A 👎 drops it. No answer in a day and it expires. Joey never writes to your calendar on its own.

What you fix, Joey keeps: your words for things, who usually does what, the calendar a plan belongs on.

🎯 The rules Joey lives by

👍 A parent's yes before any write
🙊 Parents only. Anyone else in the group is politely refused
🔇 Two unprompted messages a day at most, none late at night
👀 "Joey, what can you see" lists everything it holds
🗑️ "Joey, forget today" deletes that stretch of chat

On the calendar

Straight into the calendar you already share

Confirmed plans go to the shared Google Calendar your family already lives by, with who is on it in the entry. To-dos are all-day entries, or their own to-do calendar if you ask.

You share the calendar with Joey once, and can unshare it any time.
A parent's own calendar can be read alongside, or kept out of the group.
"Joey, what's on Tuesday?" and "who's getting Mia Wednesday?" are answered from it.
Apple Calendar is not connected yet. Google only, for now.

Stay ahead

Tomorrow, in one message

Every evening at 7:15. Tomorrow's day: what's on, who's on it. Silent when tomorrow is empty.

Sunday at 8 pm. The week ahead in three parts: appointments and work, the kids, the household.

Each morning. One line with today's to-dos. 👍 when done.

"Joey quiet evenings" stops the evening note. "Joey weekly on Saturday 9am" moves the weekly one.

Join the pilot

Tomorrow 🌙

7:15 pm · family group

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9:00 am kinder (Mia) Sam

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4:00 pm swimming (Zac) Viji

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3:30 pm dentist (Mia) nobody on it

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To do: pay the kinder invoice

By design, not by limitation

What Joey deliberately doesn't do

Some assistants promise to watch everything, everywhere, all the time. We think that is the wrong trade for a family.

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No inbox, no other chats

Joey sees the one group you add it to, and the mail a parent forwards to it. It never crawls your email, your accounts or your other chats.

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No writing without a yes

Every calendar entry, reminder and to-do is a question first. Joey never writes on its own, and never more than two unprompted messages a day.

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Not your work assistant

Joey is scoped to the household: kids, school, appointments, the plumber, the holidays. It answers questions in that lane and stays in it.

Quick questions

Does Joey log into Compass or Sentral?

No. Forward the email or share the school's calendar link. Nothing to connect, no school passwords to hand over, and it works with any school, even paper notes.

Do both parents need to be in the group?

Yes. Joey belongs to the household. Both parents see every question, plan and note, and either can say yes.

Can my kids be in the group?

Joey only takes plans and questions from parents. Anyone else in the group is politely refused. Kids get the chores tracker, with their own login, if you set it up.

What if Joey gets something wrong?

Nothing is written without a 👍, so a wrong reading costs a 👎. If a wrong entry slips through, "Joey what did you do" lists the last writes and you can ask it to remove one.

Which calendars work?

A shared Google Calendar today. A parent's own Google calendar can be read alongside it. Apple Calendar is on the roadmap.

Say the plan.
Joey does the rest.