Forward email to family calendar with Zenframe Assistant
Forward any email or appointment confirmation to assistant@zenframe.no and it appears in your family calendar instantly — no copy-pasting required.
Calendar chaos almost always begins with an email that you read, mentally filed, and then couldn't find again. The dentist confirmation. The swimming lesson schedule PDF. The WhatsApp message from the football coach you screenshot and forgot about. These messages carry dates your family needs, but they live in someone's inbox rather than a shared place everyone can see. Zenframe's email-forwarding feature solves that in one step: forward the email, and the event lands in your family calendar.
The flow is straightforward. You receive an email — a ParentMail reminder about the school trip, a GP appointment confirmation, an after-school club schedule — and you forward it to assistant@zenframe.no. The assistant reads the body text and extracts the date, time, location, and a short description. The calendar event is created within seconds and appears in the shared family calendar for everyone in your household to see. No login required to forward; anyone in the family who has the forwarding address can add events.
This is particularly useful for the information asymmetry problem most families recognise immediately: one parent's inbox gets the school newsletter while the other's gets the sports club email. Traditionally, keeping both people in sync means a stream of 'did you see the email about...?' texts throughout the day. With Zenframe forwarding, you hit forward once and both parents — and any older kids with their own profile — see the event without a second conversation.
The assistant handles the common formats you'll actually encounter: formal confirmation emails with structured dates, plain-text messages copied from WhatsApp into email, meeting invitations, NHS appointment letters, and schedule PDFs from clubs and associations. It understands relative date expressions like 'next Thursday' and 'two weeks from today'. Your emails are processed to extract structured data and are not stored beyond the processing window. The forwarding feature is part of the Assistant module, which includes a free-tier allowance and full access at the Assistant plan level.
FAQ
Can I forward messages from Class Dojo or ParentMail?
Yes. Forward the email notification directly, or copy the text content into an email and forward that. If the school app sends a PDF attachment with the date in the document, you can also upload that separately via the Zenframe app.
What if the assistant extracts the wrong date?
The created event appears in the calendar immediately, and you can edit the date, time, and description directly in Zenframe with two taps. The assistant shows you what it extracted, so you can confirm or correct it before the event is finalised.