Google-first family admin

School mail in.
A clear next step out.

School Action Hub files every useful update, catches genuine actions and dates, then gives the family one clean place to act without turning ordinary news into noise.

  • πŸ”’ Google-only
  • 🧬 Duplicate-aware
  • πŸ“… Date-validated

Fictional family briefing Β· no school data

Action required

Return excursion consent

Due Thursday Β· form link retained in the original email

🟠 Parent action

Calendar checked

Family afternoon

Future date validated before an event is created

πŸ“… Added once

Filed quietly

Weekly learning update

Archived to Drive, with no unnecessary alert

βœ… No action

The real problem

Not every school email is a newsletter. Not every update needs an alarm.

The hub separates events, health notices, forms, invoices, policies and general updates, then only interrupts the family when something genuinely needs attention.

One guarded journey

From inbox to organised action.

Each message moves through small, explicit checks. A failure stays with that message and cannot stop the rest of the batch.

  1. 01

    Watch the right senders

    Bounded Gmail searches find school and childcare mail while excluding Spam and Trash.

    Gmail
  2. 02

    Collapse copied deliveries

    Body identity and SHA-256 attachment hashes stop renamed copies becoming repeated files or alerts.

    Apps Script
  3. 03

    Classify within guardrails

    Sensitive health and incident notices bypass Gemini. Other current mail uses strict Google Gemini output that is validated again.

    Google Gemini
  4. 04

    File, schedule and alert once

    Drive receives the record, valid future dates can reach Calendar, and actionable updates get one clean Gmail alert.

    Drive Β· Calendar Β· Gmail

What it handles today

A filing cabinet with judgement.

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Organised archive

Attachments and body-only messages land in allowlisted category folders, never a model-invented destination.

🧬

Layered duplicate safety

Exact hashes, stable attachment identity and message fingerprints work together across copied deliveries.

πŸ“…

Safe Calendar events

Malformed, past or implausibly distant proposals are discarded before Calendar is touched.

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One-action alerts

Every actionable update gets its own readable email with deadlines, reasons and links back to the source.

Privacy by architecture

Family information stays in Google.

Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Apps Script and Google Gemini are the complete processing boundary. This public page contains only fictional examples.

  • No non-Google AIGemini is the only model, and its output is never trusted blindly
  • No automatic replies or deletionThe hub organises and alerts; the parent stays in control
  • No sensitive notice analysisExplicit incident and health content is handled deterministically

A Drew’s Digest project

Less inbox archaeology.
More confident family action.

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