Who's Handling It
Clear handling decisions on every event and task, including when no one is needed.
Most family drops aren't forgetting the task. They're two people each assuming the other one had it. Mavo makes ownership visible so that assumption never has to happen.
Owners, not assumptions
Every task can carry an owner, and a calendar event can name one or more responsible people. Something with a responsible person is covered; something undecided shows in Needs Attention on Home until a person takes it. For plans such as school holidays that genuinely need no handoff, choose No one needed and Mavo treats that as a saved decision instead of a loose end. The Who's Handling What view on Home shows the week's load at a glance.
One tap to accept or pass
When something lands on you, Mavo tells you: in the app, and by email if that's on (alerts like these are included with the Plus plan and up). "I've got it" and "Pass" both work right from the notification, and the email link works without signing in, so a busy partner can respond from their phone in the school pickup line. On a shared event, each responsible person answers their own assignment. Links stay good for 30 days.
Passing hands the item to the backup person if your family named one. If there's no backup, it goes back to the family and Mavo says it still needs an owner.
Rules for the regular stuff
Settings → Who handles what lets you set defaults so assignment stops being a chore: a default owner per calendar (practices go to Sam), taking turns, and a backup person for passes. When someone manually assigns the same person to the same calendar three times running, Mavo offers to make it a rule.
The safety net
On the Plus plan and up, Mavo keeps gentle pressure on until things are truly covered:
- If an assignment sits unconfirmed for a day, Mavo asks that person again, same one-tap choices.
- If something inside the next two days still needs an owner, Mavo nudges the whole family until someone takes it. Events marked No one needed stay quiet.
- Each nudge goes out once per event, so nobody gets piled on.
- The weekly digest carries a "still needs an owner" section.
Needs Attention on Home
Missing owners, stalled items, dates that slipped, and double-booked people (the same person on two overlapping events in the next two weeks) collect in one list on Home. It's the two-minute scan that replaces the 11 PM mental inventory.