Sunday recap · new

Your week, narrated.

Sunday evening, the digest screen shows a warm 120-word recap of what your family actually did — written by Claude, not by us, not by a template. Text it to grandma. Save it. Re-read it next year.

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Family digest screen
The problem

The week ends, and the calendar resets.

You did so much. Three soccer practices, two parent-teacher meetings, four dinners cooked, the cousin's birthday, the dentist, the half-day. By 9pm Sunday, the new week's planning has already started — and last week dissolves into "I forget what we even did."

No family calendar has ever cared about this moment. They're transactional: add an event, complete an event, delete an event, repeat. We added a moment for reflection because parents told us the week feels like nothing if it isn't named.

"Some weeks the only thing that survives is whether I remembered to feel proud of us. Help me remember." — Beta user.
How it works

Tap "Read the story of your week."

Sunday evening — or any day, really — open the digest screen from the Today tab or the Sunday-night push notification. You'll see the structured stats (events completed, meals cooked, photos taken, who was busiest, recent highlights). Above that: a soft amber card with one button: Read the story of your week.

Tap it. We send the structured stats to Claude with a single instruction: "Write a 90–140-word recap they'd want to share with grandparents on Sunday night. Voice: warm, observational, never preachy. Specific over generic. Quiet weeks honored as quiet." Six seconds later, a paragraph appears.

  • Cached per week — re-opening on Tuesday shows the same narrative, no extra AI call
  • One-tap regenerate for when your family does something memorable mid-week
  • Quiet-week fallback — if literally nothing happened, we skip the AI call entirely and show a hand-written calm-week paragraph
  • Privacy-first prompt — only aggregates, top member's first name, and ≤6 event titles. No notes, no IDs, no photos transit
  • Share as a card — generates a beautifully-typeset PNG you can text or post
Today screen with weekly digest entry point
A real one

What a recap actually reads like.

The week moved like a brisk Tuesday morning that never quite slowed down. Owen turned in his IEP paperwork on Monday, Emma's soccer made it onto the kitchen counter despite the rain, and Ethan's first-week-of-spring-band recital somehow happened without anyone melting down. You cooked three dinners together — the carnitas twice, which is a quiet vote — and snapped a photo of the second one. Next week is calmer on paper: orthodontist Tuesday, picture day Thursday, and otherwise some room to breathe. Tonight, the kitchen smells like garlic and the laundry's still folded. You did good.

The model never repeats. It picks up on what's specific to this week — names, dishes, what got photographed, what's coming. The instruction set forbids hype words ("amazing," "incredible," "crushed") and demands plain prose. Voice matters.

The numbers

What it costs us. What you don't pay.

~$0.002
Per narrative (Claude Haiku 4.5)
~120
Words per recap
~6s
Generation time

Cached server-side per week, so re-opening the digest on Wednesday is free. AI-tier-gated so free families get the recap (counts against the 15-call monthly quota); Plus families ($4.99/mo) get unlimited regenerations.

Related features

Claude Vision

Photo-to-events

The same AI engine handles your flyers + writes your recaps.
In the kitchen

Cook-with-kids mode

Cooked photos surface on the weekly recap photo strip.
130 ms

Real-time sync

The audit log that powers the recap also powers your "what changed?" notifications.

Name the week. Save it. Send it.

Sunday recap is included free for every Our Life family. Plus families get unlimited regenerations.

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