Penny walkthroughs

Short narrated clips showing how Penny works. Captions are built into each video.

1. 1:19

   1. Meet Penny

   Penny reads the school email, works out what actually needs you, and texts you before you are caught out. This is the short version of everything she does.

2. 1:12

   2. Getting started by text

   There is nothing to install: you text Penny, connect Gmail and your calendar once, and pick it up again in the same thread. Setup happens where you already are.

3. 1:12

   3. Getting your email to Penny

   There are three ways in: forward an email, label it, or let smart sync label it for you. They stack rather than replace each other, so you can start with one and add another later.

4. 1:08

   4. Connecting your calendar

   What the Google permission actually covers, what Penny uses it for, and what she never does. You pick which calendar she is allowed to write to.

5. 1:04

   5. Inviting your family

   Add both parents, the shared household address, and any guests who need to see the calendar. Then nobody has to remember which inbox a school used.

6. 0:59

   6. Your event feed

   Everything Penny found, in one place, newest first. A slider decides how much of it is worth your attention.

7. 0:59

   7. Deciding on events

   One click puts an event on your calendar, and a warning tells you when that afternoon is already spoken for. You can edit anything before it lands.

8. 0:35

   8. Recurring events

   Practice every Tuesday, meetings every Monday. The whole pattern goes across at once, not one event at a time.

9. 0:54

   9. Where every event came from

   Every event traces back to the email it came from, and to why Penny thought it mattered. Nothing on your calendar is unexplained.

10. 2:09

    10. Data privacy

    What Penny needs, what she will never do, and how much of your email you actually hand over. Also how to take any of it back.

11. 0:58

    11. Synced calendars

    Subscribe once to a school, team or league calendar and the whole season keeps itself current. When the school moves a game, your calendar moves with it.

12. 0:55

    12. Alerts

    Penny texts you when something genuinely needs you, and stays quiet the rest of the time. You choose what counts as worth interrupting you for.