Feature guide · 6 minute tour

Get to know Pax Family
in six quiet sections.

A walk-through of everything Pax Family can do — from your morning dashboard to the weekly reports that show up in your inbox without you lifting a finger.

1
Family dashboard

Your family's home base.

Open the tablet on the kitchen counter and see today at a glance — weather, schedule, the week ahead, and last week's leaderboard winners.

Saved to home screen 📱
The Reyes Family
Tuesday · April 14
🌤️
68°F
Mostly sunny · Austin, TX
Today's schedule
9:00
Math block — all kids
11:30
Park day
2:00
Co-op library trip
4:30
Sophie's piano lesson
This week
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Last week's winners 🏆
L
2
S
1
J
3
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Weather widget

Local forecast right on the dashboard — pulled from your zip code, no setup.

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Today's schedule

Color-coded events with times and details for everything happening today.

📋

Week ahead

The next seven days at a glance so nothing sneaks up on the family.

🗓️

30-day calendar

Tap through to the full month view with every event laid out in detail.

🏆

Leaderboard podium

Monday-morning celebration of last week's top performers — gold, silver, bronze.

📱

Save to home screen

Works as a PWA on iPad, Android tablets, and phones — feels like a native app.

2
Children's pages

A page for every kid. Each one their own.

Custom colors, patterns, and a photo make each child's page feel like their own corner of the family. They see only their list — no comparing, no scrolling past everyone else's.

🎨

Colors & patterns

Dots, waves, stars, confetti, gradients — each child picks their look.

📸

Photo customization

Upload a photo for each child; it shows on their page and the family dashboard.

🏠

Their own dashboard

Each child sees only their assigned todos and events — nothing else.

🌴

Day off mode

Sick day or vacation? Their page flips to a relaxed amber-ringed "Day off today."

Today's todos

Children check off their tasks as they go — taps, not nagging.

💬

Completion messages

Custom toast messages pop up when individual tasks or whole types finish.

🎉

Milestone celebrations

Gold trophy overlay when a child hits 100, 200, or 500+ completed todos.

🔥

Streaks & counts

Personal streaks travel with the child across days, weeks, and months.

Sophie's page · today ✏️
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Sophie
3 of 5 today · streak 4 🔥
60%
Make bed
Reading: Charlotte's Web
Spelling — 10 words
Piano practice
Feed Biscuit
"Three down, two to go — you got this!" 💛
L
Liam
All done · streak 12 🔥
100%
Pre-algebra ch. 3
Spanish vocab
Reading: Hatchet
Free reading block
"All caught up. Go build something." 🎉
J
Jack
2 of 5 today · streak 11 🔥
40%
Feed Biscuit 🐶
Water plants
Math worksheet
Reading time
"Streak day 11 — keep it rolling!" 🌟
A
Ana
Day off · resting 🌴
🌴
Day off today
Back at it tomorrow — no streak lost.
3
Todos

Daily tasks, without the daily nagging.

Build the routine once. Pax replays it every week, with categories, recurrence, parent-PIN check-offs, and consequences when something slips.

Drag-and-drop ↕️
All School Chore Activity Sophie ▾
🌅 Morning routine 3 of 4
⋮⋮
Make bed & get dressed
Chore7:30
⋮⋮
Brush teeth
ChoreDaily
⋮⋮
Reading — 20 min
SchoolM-F
⋮⋮
Vitamins
Chore8:00
📚 School block 1 of 3
⋮⋮
Spelling test — 10 words
School
⋮⋮
🔒
Math worksheet ch. 4
SchoolPIN
⋮⋮
Handwriting practice
SchoolOverdue
🎹 Activities 0 of 2
⋮⋮
Piano practice — 20 min
Activity2× / wk
⋮⋮
Co-op library trip
Activity2:00 PM
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Task types

School, Chore, or Activity — each with a color-coded badge for quick scanning.

🔁

Flexible recurrence

Daily, weekdays, weekly, every 2–4 weeks, monthly, annually, or specific days.

Due times & overdue

Give a task a deadline. Overdue items glow red so nothing slips through.

🔒

Parent check-off & PIN

Require a parent to verify completion — with a tap or a 4-digit PIN.

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Consequences

Optional consequences for missed todos surface on the parent report.

📁

Categories & emoji

Group tasks into routines like "Morning" with custom sort order and emoji.

🌴

Days off

Sick days or vacations — per child, per category, or family-wide in one tap.

↕️

Drag-and-drop reorder

Sort todos in any order on the dedicated reorder page, filtered by child.

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Calendar events

Field trips, holidays, everything in one view.

One-time or recurring, color-coded, with skip dates and big-event highlights — and it syncs to Apple, Google, or Outlook with one tap.

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One-time or recurring

Single events or repeats — daily, weekly, monthly, annually.

🎨

Color coding

Assign a custom color to each event so they're easy to spot on the schedule.

Big events

Mark holidays, birthdays, and special days as "big" so they stand out.

Skip dates

Exclude specific dates from a recurring event — for holidays or one-offs.

📲

iCal sync

Subscribe in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook with one tap.

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Per-child events

Tag events to specific kids so only their page shows their schedule.

April · all events
April 2026
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
29
30
31
1
Math co-op
2
3
Park day
4
5
6
Math co-op
7
Piano
8
Library trip
9
10
Park day
11
12
13
Math co-op
14
Piano
15
Sophie's bday
16
17
Park day
18
19
20
Math co-op
21
Piano
22
Field trip
23
24
Park day
25
26
27
Math co-op
28
Piano
29
30
Easter
1
2
Co-op
Park day
Special
Lessons
Big event ★
5
Reports & tracking

The week, in one quiet glance.

Daily parent reports, child progress trends, sibling leaderboards, and an AI-generated summary that factors in days off and excused tasks.

AI weekly summary 📨
S
Sophie · progress report
Last 14 days · all task types
🥇
Completion
94%
+8% vs. last 2 weeks
Current streak
12 days
Personal best 🔥
14-day completion heatmap
Strongest mornings: Tue, Wed, Fri · Slowest: Sun
🤖 AI summary This week

Sophie crushed her school tasks (15/15) and built her longest streak yet. Chores dipped Sunday after the co-op trip — likely tiredness, not avoidance. Suggest moving piano practice to mornings.

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Parent report

A daily overview showing each child's status, missed tasks, and weekly summary.

📈

Progress reports

Per-child trends, calendar heatmaps, time-of-day patterns, type breakdowns.

🏆

Leaderboard

Gold, silver, bronze across kids. Filter by time period and specific tasks.

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AI summary

An AI-generated read of the week — factors in days off, excused tasks, trends.

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Sunday email

Weekly digest lands in your inbox at 8 PM Sunday so the week starts informed.

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PDF export

One-click weekly PDF — great for co-op check-ins and homeschool evaluators.

6
Admin panel

One quiet command center.

Notifications, security, settings, calendar sync, IP whitelist — every knob in the house lives in one tidy admin panel.

🖥️

Central dashboard

Today's progress by child, quick actions, daily report link, family overview.

📧

Email notifications

Real-time task alerts, 8 PM daily summaries, Sunday weeklies, missed-task warnings.

⚙️

Settings & toggles

Timezone, weather, leaderboard, event highlights, IP allowlist, notifications.

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Security

Email verification, rate limiting, CSRF protection, parent PINs, IP access control.

📱

Works on any device

Responsive on tablets, phones, desktops. Save to home screen for an app-like feel.

📲

Calendar sync

Subscribe in Apple, Google, or Outlook via the family iCal feed.

Admin · today
Today · Tuesday Apr 15
All systems ✓
🧒
Kids active
4 of 4
Tasks done
17 / 22
🔥
Streak days
12
🌤️ Weather widget
🏆 Leaderboard podium
📨 Sunday weekly email
🔐 IP allowlist
⚠️ Missed-task warnings
Inbox · 8:00 PM from Pax Family
Daily summary — Tuesday
17 of 22 tasks complete · 1 missed · 4 streaks alive
S
Sophie · 5/5 · streak 12 all done
L
Liam · 4/4 · finished early all done
J
Jack · 6/7 · skipped piano 1 missed
A
Ana · day off 🌴 excused

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