A birthday party, a dentist appointment, a family scrimmage — anything not in a team app that still needs to be on the family calendar. Four short steps and you're done.
Manual events show up on the Dashboard right next to synced events and push to Apple Calendar through the same feed.
The flow
STEP 1 · DASHBOARD
Dashboard
This week
Baseball practice
Wed 4:30 PM · Field 3 · Riley
Basketball game
Fri 6:00 PM · Community gym · Sam
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Tap + Add event
From the family Dashboard, tap + Add event to create a one-off that isn't in any team app — a birthday party, a dentist appointment, a family scrimmage, whatever.
STEP 2 · NAME IT
New event
Step 1 of 4 · Title
Title
Team pizza night|
Type whatever you'd call the event. Kept short is fine — you can always add notes below.
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Type a title
Start with the title — "Team pizza night", "Dentist", "Riley's birthday party". Anything a family member would recognize on the Dashboard.
STEP 3 · WHEN
New event
Step 2 of 4 · When
Date
Friday, September 20
Time
6:00 – 8:30 PM
All-day event? Skip the time and toggle "All day" underneath.
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Pick the date and time
Standard date picker plus start and end times. Repeating weekly? Skip that here — recurring events live on a proper calendar source, not on manual entries.
STEP 4 · WHO'S INVITED
New event
Step 3 of 4 · Who's going?
R
Riley
✓
S
Sam
✓
J
Jordan
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Check which kids are going
Some events are for one kid (a dentist appointment), some are for the whole family (a party). Check whoever's actually involved — the event will show up on their individual feeds too.
STEP 5 · SHARING
New event
Step 4 of 4 · Sharing
Share with the whole family
On means everyone sees it on the family Dashboard. Off keeps it in Riley's and Sam's personal feeds only.
Visible on family Dashboard
On
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Family-wide, or just theirs
For a party or family outing, keep it on. For something like a dentist appointment you don't want your other kids to notice on the shared Dashboard, flip it off — the event still lives in Riley's own feed.
STEP 6 · RESULT
Dashboard
This week
Baseball practice
Wed 4:30 PM · Field 3 · Riley
Team pizza night
Fri 6:00 PM · Riley + Sam
Basketball game
Fri 6:00 PM · Community gym · Sam
✓Manual event added — syncs to Apple Calendar too
On the Dashboard right away
Manual events live on your Dashboard mixed in with automatically-synced ones, and get pushed to Apple Calendar through the same feed URL. Edit or delete anytime by tapping the event.
When to add manually
🎂
Birthday parties
A friend's party, a family gathering, anything that would clash with a practice you should reschedule.
🛡
Doctor / dentist
Appointments that need to be blocked out on the family calendar — and shared with a co-parent handling pickups.
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Backyard scrimmage
A pickup game or one-off practice the coach organizes over text, not through the team app.
📌
Anything not in an app
Grandparent visits, school pickup swap days — if you'd write it on the fridge, add it here.