How Mavo works

What Mavo is, the ideas behind it, and where everything lives: the shared plan, plan items, owners, and Mavo AI.

Mavo gives your family one place to run the week: a shared calendar, lists, groceries, and meals, with a family assistant that helps capture and organize all of it. Instead of a dozen apps and a buried group chat, everyone looks at the same plan.

Three questions drive everything in Mavo:

  • What's happening? The shared plan holds the calendar, lists, and meals.
  • Who's handling it? Every event and task can carry an owner.
  • What still needs attention? Anything without an owner, or quietly slipping, gets surfaced instead of forgotten.

The words Mavo uses

  • Family (or household): the shared space for the people running life together. You can belong to more than one family, like your own household and a parent you help, and switch between them.
  • Plan item: anything captured into the plan: a calendar event, a task, a list entry.
  • Shared plan: the combined view of the calendar, lists, groceries, and meals.
  • Add from Anywhere: forward an email, paste text, share a link, or upload a file, and Mavo turns it into plan items. See Add from Anywhere.
  • Who's Handling It: owners on events and tasks, so "I thought you had it" stops happening. See Who's Handling It.
  • Covered / Needs Attention: something with an owner is covered; anything else needs attention and shows on Home until someone takes it.
  • What Changed: the recent-activity view, so you can catch up after a busy day.
  • Mavo AI: the family assistant. It reads what you send in, adds plan items, answers questions about the week, and can watch for things like weather. For changes worth a second look, it shows a preview and waits for your go-ahead.

Where things live

  • Home: the family dashboard: chat with Mavo, Who's Handling What, Needs Attention, and quick capture.
  • Calendar: the shared family calendar, filterable by person, including any outside calendars you've linked.
  • Collections: lists, groceries, meals, and any custom lists your family keeps.
  • Chats: every conversation with Mavo, including the ones started by a forwarded email.
  • Settings: family settings (General, People, Who handles what, Send to Mavo, Digest, Plan & billing, Export, Developer) plus your personal profile, appearance, and notification choices.

A normal week

Forward the school newsletter to your family's Mavo address. Mavo pulls out picture day and the early release, puts them on the calendar, and asks who's covering the 1:15 pickup. You hand it to your partner; they accept with one tap from the email. Sunday evening the digest lands with the week ahead and the one thing that still needs an owner.

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