Got a work meeting, a school district calendar, or a coach's email with practice times? Forward it to your unique SportsCal address and the events show up on your Dashboard — no copy-paste, no re-typing.
Best for events that live outside your kids' sports apps — work calendars, school district newsletters, one-off invites — that still need to show up next to the family schedule.
The flow
STEP 1 · GRAB YOUR ADDRESS
Settings
Add events by email
Your SportsCal inbox
Forward any email to this address — meeting invites, school district calendars, coach emails — and SportsCal adds the events.
add+8a12d81b@inbox.sportscalapp.com
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Copy your unique address
Every SportsCal account gets its own add+<code>@inbox.sportscalapp.com address. Anything you forward to it lands on your family Dashboard. Tap Copy and paste it into your Contacts so you can address it as easily as any other name.
STEP 2 · OPEN THE INVITE
Your inbox · Gmail
Meeting invite from work
From: hr@company.com
Subject: Company all-hands · Friday Sept 27
Reminder — our quarterly all-hands is Friday Sept 27 at 2:00 PM in the main conference room.
Whether it's an HR email, a school district newsletter, or the coach's Sunday planning message — open it and tap Forward. Works from any email app (Gmail, Apple Mail, Outlook).
STEP 3 · ADDRESS + SEND
Forwarding
New message
To
add+8a12d81b@inbox.sportscalapp.com
Subject
Fwd: Company all-hands · Friday Sept 27
Body + attachment travel along automatically. No message from you required.
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Paste your address, hit Send
Paste the SportsCal address into the To field. You don't need to type anything else — the original email body and any attached .ics file go along automatically.
STEP 4 · SPORTSCAL READS IT
Message sent
SportsCal is reading it now
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SportsCal has your email
Confirmation coming back in a few seconds
Nothing to do — SportsCal handles it
Behind the scenes: SportsCal pulls any webcal:// or .ics URL out of the email body, or reads the attached invite file if there's one. Then it drops the event on your Dashboard and sends you a confirmation email.
STEP 5 · CONFIRMATION
Your inbox · 4 seconds later
Confirmation from SportsCal
From: SportsCal
Subject: 1 event added to your family calendar
You get a confirmation email within a few seconds — every event that was added, with a link to change how it's routed if the automatic pick isn't right. Silence means nothing was found in the email; SportsCal doesn't add empty entries.
STEP 6 · RESULT
Dashboard
This week + one more
Baseball practice
Wed 4:30 PM · Riley
Company all-hands
Fri 2:00 PM · Parents only
Basketball game
Fri 6:00 PM · Sam
✓Work event lands next to kids' schedules — clashes visible at a glance
Everyone's schedule in one place
Your work meeting sits next to Riley's practice and Sam's game on the Dashboard. Spot the conflict? The Ask a contact for a ride flow is right there when you need it.
What SportsCal can pull from an email
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iCal / webcal links
Any webcal:// or .ics URL in the email body — typed, hyperlinked, or in a signature. SportsCal follows the link and pulls every event on it.
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Meeting invites (.ics)
A calendar invite attached to a meeting notification. Read directly — no separate subscription needed for one-off events.
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School district emails
Field trip dates, early dismissal, teacher planning days. Most district newsletters carry a subscribe link at the bottom.
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Coach's group email
The Sunday email with the practice schedule for the week — forward it and SportsCal grabs anything schedule-shaped.
One-way and private to you
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Address is unique to your account
Every account gets a different token. Even if someone else emails your address, only your calendar sees the events. Rotate the address anytime from Settings.
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Forward from any email you own
Home Gmail, work Outlook, school district webmail — SportsCal doesn't care which sender you forward from, only which address you forward to.