Family weekly planner The whole week

One weekly planner for everything the family has on.

School runs, clubs, appointments, work, meals, the never-ending admin. See it all in one visual week instead of three calendars and your memory — and finally tell whether Thursday actually works.

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The family · this week
EveryoneOne week, all in view
SpotClashes and lifts early
PlanMeals, errands, admin
£40/yrFounder rate, locked for life →
Why family weeks feel chaotic

A family week is a logistics puzzle — held in one person's head.

Two parents, a couple of kids, and suddenly the week is a tangle of school runs, clubs, appointments, work shifts and meals. The information is scattered across phones, the fridge and memory, so no one can see the whole thing — and the mental load lands on whoever's keeping track.

Put the entire week in one visual view and the puzzle gets solvable. You can see the double-booked Thursday, the gap for the food shop, and the evening that's already too full — before it becomes a scramble at the school gate.

How it works

The whole household, one clear week.

Everything in one place

Capture every commitment and task — school, clubs, appointments, meals, admin — in the Life Inbox so nothing lives only in your head.

Lay out the week

Drag it onto the days it happens. Pickups, lessons and the food shop all sit together, so the busy evenings are obvious.

Make it work

Spot a clash, move a task, free up a lift. The week stops being a guess and becomes a plan you can actually run.

Is it right for you?

When a family weekly planner helps most.

A great fit if you…

  • Coordinate several people's schedules each week
  • Carry the household's mental load in your head
  • Want meals, errands and pickups in the picture too

Another tool may suit you better if…

  • You need a multi-user shared family account today
  • You only need a shared wall calendar of events
  • Chores and allowances are your main need
Questions

Family planning, explained.

A family weekly planner is a single place to see everything the household has on in a given week — school runs, clubs and activities, appointments, work, meals, and the admin that keeps a family running. Seeing it all together makes it easier to spot clashes, arrange lifts, and decide what's realistic before the week starts.

Start by getting everything out of everyone's heads into one place: the fixed events (school, work, clubs) and the loose tasks (appointments to book, forms to return, shopping). Then lay them across a visual week so you can see the busy evenings, the gaps for errands, and where two things collide. Big Picture Planner is built to capture all of it and place it into one week view.

The best family planner shows the whole week at a glance and holds more than appointments — it needs room for tasks, errands and meals too, because that's what fills a real family week. Big Picture Planner combines a Life Inbox for capturing everything with a visual weekly calendar, so the household's commitments and to-dos live in one picture.

Today Big Picture Planner is your own planning view, where one person — often the household organiser — keeps the whole family's week visible in one place. It's an early beta, and we're shaping what comes next with founding users. If shared family accounts matter to you, that's exactly the kind of feedback that guides the roadmap.

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