School and activity emails arrive at one parent's inbox. The other parent finds out about the field trip three days late. Skoolit gives both parents identical, real-time access to every school and activity event — from their own separate accounts.
The co-parenting problem
When parents separate, school communication doesn't automatically adapt. Schools send newsletters, permission slips, and schedule updates to whoever they have on file — usually the parent who completed enrollment. The other parent, in a different household, receives none of it directly.
This creates an information asymmetry that has nothing to do with how much either parent cares. The primary-contact parent becomes the information hub by default — expected to relay everything, often while managing their own life and schedule. The other parent is perpetually downstream, hearing about events late, learning about deadlines after they've passed, and feeling excluded from their child's school life through no fault of their own.
The friction this creates shows up in co-parenting conflict constantly: "Why didn't you tell me about the picture day?" "I didn't know the permission slip was due Friday." "You should have forwarded me the coach's email." These arguments aren't about parenting values. They're about a broken information system.
Skoolit fixes the system. Both parents connect their own accounts. Both see the same digest. Both get the same urgency alerts. No relaying required. No information asymmetry. No "why didn't you tell me."
How Skoolit works for co-parents
Co-parenting is a first-class use case in Skoolit, not an afterthought. Here's what both parents get.
Every school email, activity schedule, and permission slip is extracted and surfaced in a shared digest. Both parents see the same events, the same urgency scores, and the same action items — simultaneously, without any manual forwarding.
Both parents link their own email account independently. If the school emails both households (increasingly common), Skoolit deduplicates automatically — you'll never see the same event twice. If only one parent is on file, the extracted information is shared with the co-parent account automatically.
Co-parents see identical urgency flags. If a permission slip is flagged as "Due in 2 days — urgent," both parents see that urgency at the same time. No one has to chase the other down. The information is simply there, for both of you, immediately.
When calendar sync is enabled, your personal appointments show as "Busy" to the co-parent — no event titles, no details. Conflict detection works (Skoolit can identify scheduling overlaps) without revealing the contents of your personal calendar to your co-parent.
Setup
Connect your email inbox, add your children's names and schools, and configure which activity programs to monitor. Skoolit starts extracting immediately.
From Settings → Family access → Invite co-parent, enter their email address. They receive an invitation with a one-click accept link. No account needed on their end to get started.
The co-parent accepts the invite, optionally connects their own email inbox (to catch school emails that only go to them), and immediately has full access to the shared family digest and calendar. From this moment, both parents see everything.
From co-parents
"My ex and I have joint custody and the school only had my email on file. I was forwarding things constantly and it created this weird power dynamic where I was the gatekeeper. Skoolit just fixed it. We both see everything now."
"The thing I didn't expect was how much stress it removed. I used to feel guilty every time my kids' dad found out about something late. Now there's just nothing to feel guilty about — he knows everything the same day I do."
"My daughter's school does picture day, recitals, sports sign-ups — all through email. Before Skoolit, half of it went to her mom and half to me and we constantly had to compare notes. Now we just both know."
FAQ
Join early access. Setup takes 5 minutes. Both parents are in from day one.