Email digests & push notifications

Our Caring Circle keeps you in the loop two ways, and they're built to complement each other rather than pile on. Email digests are the "I'll catch up later" channel — a calm summary you read on your own time. Push notifications are the "drop what you're doing" channel — real-time interrupts for the handful of things that genuinely can't wait.

Here's exactly what each one does, when it fires, and how to dial it to what your family actually needs.

Email digests: the catch-up channel

Digests bundle activity so your inbox isn't pinged every time someone claims a task. You get two, and each has its own on/off switch in your account settings.

Daily summary — 8 PM your time

Every evening at 8 PM in your local time zone, you get one email recapping what happened across your circles that day: new tasks, who claimed what, appointments added, and updates you might have missed. It's the end-of-day glance that tells you the family stayed coordinated — or flags the thing that still needs a hand.

Weekly digest — 8 AM Sunday your time

The daily summary looks back; the Sunday digest looks forward. At 8 AM on Sunday in your local time, you get a rundown of open tasks and appointments due in the next 14 days, so the whole circle starts the week knowing what's coming and who's covering it.

Push notifications: the drop-everything channel

Push notifications reach you in real time — on your phone's lock screen or your computer — for the things that need attention now. They're grouped into three categories, each with its own toggle, so you decide how much reaches you:

Push notifications respect quiet hours automatically — nothing fires between 10 PM and 7 AM in your local time zone, so a midnight task update won't wake the house. Anything that happened overnight is waiting for you in the morning.

How email and push work together

The two channels are designed not to double up. Email is where you catch up on your own schedule; push is for the moment something needs you. Our Caring Circle picks the right channel for each event, so you're not getting an email and a buzz and a lock-screen alert for the same thing. Urgent items interrupt; everything else waits politely for your next digest.

Getting push notifications on your iPhone

iPhone has one extra requirement worth knowing about up front.

Android and desktop don't have this restriction — push works in Chrome and Edge whether or not you install the app, though installing still gives you the cleaner, full-screen experience. See the install guides for any device.

Controlling your notifications

Everything above is yours to adjust. In your account settings you'll find:

• A toggle each for the daily and weekly email digests
• The three push categories — Activity, Reminders, Urgency — switched on or off independently

Every digest email also has a one-click unsubscribe link, so you can step back from email entirely without digging through settings.

Your privacy

Notifications are deliberately light on detail. Emails include task titles and circle names so you know what they're about — but never medical information or anything that would count as protected health information. Push notification payloads are encrypted using the standard Web Push protocol. And because both channels are fully optional, you're always in control of what leaves the app and lands on your devices.