Carpool and activities

Soccer on Mondays, piano on Wednesdays, and a group of parents who take turns driving. Activities and carpool keep all of it on the calendar, with the driver for each day worked out for you.

In an event, open Activity and choose the type (sport, lesson, club, school or other). Add the coach from your contacts, the fee (once, monthly or per season) and a gear list, like shin guards and a water bottle.

Open Carpool in the same event and pick the drivers in order. Each time the event happens, the next driver in the rotation is on duty. Home shows who is driving today and tomorrow.

Open the event, go to Carpool, pick the date and choose who drives instead. You can also send that day back to the rotation. Anyone who can edit the calendar can swap, and so can the drivers themselves.

With phone notifications on, the driver gets a reminder 60 minutes before. The Brain also points out a trip in the next 7 days that has no driver yet. Notifications can be late or missed, so a quick look at the Home card helps too.

• “Who is driving this week?”
• “Who is driving to soccer Tuesday?”

• Put the pickup place in the event, so the driver knows where to go.
• Keep the gear list short and current. It shows on the event for whoever is driving.
• Swap early. When someone cannot drive, change that one date and everyone sees the new driver on Home.
• Add the other drivers’ families as contacts, so a quick call is one tap away.

If the team or school publishes a calendar link, you can subscribe to it on Household plans. Those events are read-only, so set up the carpool on an event of your own.

Activities and carpool are on every plan, including Free.