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Load your kids' school calendar into Melo

Early dismissals, spirit week, picture day. Give Melo the school's calendar once and it proposes every date for you to accept, so they end up in the family's plans and on your own calendar.

Pick whatever the school gives you

Melo can read any of these. Use the one you already have:

• A web page, such as the calendar page on the school or district website.
• A PDF, such as the year-at-a-glance calendar in the welcome packet.
• A photo of the printed calendar on the fridge or a flyer from the backpack.
• An email from the school listing the dates. See Forward school emails to Melo.

Share it with Melo

On iPhone or iPad

1. Open the share sheet. On the web page, PDF or photo, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow).
2. Choose Melo. If Melo is not in the row of apps, scroll to the end, tap More and turn it on.
3. Tap Ask Melo to…. Melo opens with the calendar attached in chat.
4. Say whose it is and send. For example "This is Maya's school calendar for the year. Add the days off, early dismissals and events."

On Android

1. Open the share sheet. On the web page, PDF or photo, tap Share.
2. Choose Melo from the list of apps. Melo opens straight into chat with the calendar attached.
3. Say whose it is and send. For example "This is Maya's school calendar for the year. Add the days off, early dismissals and events."

Prefer to type? Paste the calendar link straight into a chat with Melo and say what it is.

Check what Melo found

1. Read the reply. Melo lists the dates it found and what it created from them: events on the family's plans, tasks for things that need doing.
2. Correct it in the same chat. "Skip the teacher workdays", "the early dismissal is 1:30, not 1:00", "assign the picture-day form to me".
3. Find them later on the Tasks tab and under Events on the Board, and on your own calendar if you subscribed.

Rather sort it later? Start a brain dump, attach the calendar with +, and review Melo's suggestions one by one in Brain Dumps whenever you have a minute.

Good to know

• Photos work best when the whole page is in frame and the text is readable. Retake it if the proposals look wrong.
• Schools change dates. When you get an updated calendar, share it again and tell Melo it is an update, so it changes the existing events instead of adding new ones.
• Two kids at two schools? Share each calendar with a hint saying whose it is.