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Family Ops — Guide

Your household command center. Everything lives on your device — nothing to log into, works offline once installed.

The tools

🌅Today

Your morning briefing: weather + what to dress the kids for, Meghan’s shift, today’s calendar, tasks, and tonight’s dinner.

Tasks

Your Todoist list — add, complete, edit, reschedule.

Group · sort · filter by label · bulk edit · export
🗓️Planner

A day grid from your calendar feeds, with tasks overlaid. Quick-add events here.

📆Week at a Glance

The week in columns — group and sort however you like.

📊Dashboard

Tasks in buckets (Top / To-do / etc.) with grouping and sorting.

🎛️Cockpit

Meghan’s shift, meds & refills, kids’ milestones, Dodgers pace, F1 next race.

🩺Meghan’s Schedule

One master shift schedule the whole app reads. Add by hand or import from her calendar.

☀️Weather

Now & 15-day forecast, dew-point comfort, wet-bulb, and season precip/snow totals.

📅Calendar

Your Google family calendars, embedded live (week / month / agenda).

🏖️Summer Poster

The whole summer on one page. Sort within a day; print by month, week, or picked days.

📺Family Share

Plan meals and push meals / tasks / events to your Skylight display as calendar files.

🗒️Live Notes

A quick spreadsheet with tabs — auto-saves as you type.

📄Viewer

Open a PDF or image — e.g. a Numbers calendar exported to PDF.

📖Diary & Archive

A dated logbook for milestones and things worth remembering. Searchable, exportable.

💾Backup & Restore

Save everything to a file, and move it between your phone and desktop.

First-time setup

  1. Connect Todoist — open Tasks → gear (⚙) → paste your API token.Todoist → Settings → Integrations → Developer → copy the API token.
  2. Add your weather key — open Weather → gear (⚙) → paste a free Visual Crossing key and set the location.
  3. Add your calendars — open Planner → paste each calendar’s .ics / webcal link, or upload exported .ics files.Google: Settings → the calendar → “Secret address in iCal format.” Apple: share the calendar or export from Mac.
  4. Set Meghan’s schedule — open Meghan’s Schedule → add shifts, or use 📥 Import to pull them from her calendar.
  5. Pick your colors — on Tasks, tap 🎨 to set each person’s color. Today, Planner, and Summer all use them.

Tasks toolbar

☑︎
Select — tap to pick several tasks, then Complete / Set… / Delete them at once.
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Label filter — tap a label to require it (green), again to exclude it (red).
Collapse — fold or unfold all sections.
📅
Mini calendar — a small month for reference.
Compact — dense one-line rows.
Columns — 1 / 2 / 3 columns (on wider screens).
⬇︎
Export CSV — opens in Numbers / Excel.
📆
Export .ics — dated tasks as a calendar file (for Skylight).
🎨
Colors — set person & category colors used across the app.

How do I…?

Add a task with a project, due date, and labels?
In Tasks, tap “+ project · due · labels” under the add box to open the extra fields. (Or just type — p1, fri 4pm work inline.)
Change lots of tasks at once?
Tap ☑︎, select the tasks, then use the bar at the bottom — Complete, Set… (move project / set due / add-remove label), or Delete.
Import Meghan’s shifts?
Add her calendar in Planner, then in Meghan’s Schedule tap 📥 Import → pick the source → PreviewAdd. Your manual entries are never overwritten.
Get meals & tasks onto the Skylight?
In Family Share, export the .ics, then in Google Calendar do Settings → Import & export → Import into a calendar Skylight syncs.
Move my data to another device?
In Backup & Restore, download or copy the backup, then open the same page on the other device and Restore.
Print the summer calendar?
In Summer Poster, choose a Print scope (all / a month / this week / picked days), then ⎙ Poster.

Install & update

Add to your phone: open the site in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen. It then opens full-screen like an app and works offline.

After an update: once the new version is deployed, fully close the app and reopen it so it swaps in the new files. You can confirm which version is live at the bottom of the Tasks page — it shows build v….

Back up regularly: your data lives only on this device, so make a backup after big changes and keep the file somewhere safe.