Forward your first email
This is the feature families fall in love with. Forward an email full of dates - a class newsletter, a party invite, a season schedule - and Sense reads it and adds the events and reminders for you. No app to open, no retyping. Here's how to do it the first time.
The quick way (free)
- Open Settings → Verified Emails and verify the email address you send from. This is a one-time step so Sense knows a forward is really from you.
- From that verified address, forward any email with dates in it to share@getsense.ai.
- Within a minute or two, the events appear on your calendar, assigned to the right family members wherever Sense can tell who they're for.
What makes a good first email
Anything with real dates works well - a school newsletter, a swim schedule, an evite, a doctor's appointment confirmation. Sense handles messy formatting, long forwarded chains, and even dates buried in a PDF or an image attachment.
Your own private address (Premium)
With Premium you also get a personal forwarding address you can send to from anywhere - no per-sender verifying, and it's what lets you set up auto-forwarding so school mail flows in on its own. See Your forwarding addresses for the difference.
Common questions
How long does it take?
Usually a minute or two. A big email with PDF attachments can take a little longer while Sense reads the attachments.
What if it gets something wrong?
Every extracted event is a normal event - open it and edit the time, place, or who it's for, just like anything else.
Can I see what I've forwarded?
Yes - the Messages tab lists every email you've forwarded and what Sense pulled from each one. See Why an email wasn't picked up.