By Dineke · May 2026

The event is in the calendar. Now what actually needs to happen?

You've done the hard part. The birthday party is in the calendar. The date, the time, the address — it's all there.

But then Saturday morning arrives and someone asks: did we get a present? Do we know where it is? Who's wrapping it? What time do we need to leave to get there on time?

The event was organised. The things the event required were not.

This is one of the quiet frustrations of family life — and it's exactly the gap that parte.'s linked tasks are designed to close.

Events and tasks are not the same thing

Most family calendars treat everything as an event. But a birthday party on Saturday is actually two very different things:

• • An event — the party itself, with a time and a place.
• • A set of tasks — buy a present, wrap it, write a card, check the address, figure out parking.

When those tasks live somewhere else — a scribbled note, a mental to-do list, a message to yourself — they're easy to forget. When they're attached directly to the event in parte., they're impossible to miss.

How linked tasks work in parte.

When you add an event to the family calendar, you can attach tasks directly to it. These aren't separate to-dos floating in a list somewhere — they belong to that event, they live next to it, and they disappear from your view once they're done.

Example: Add "Lola's birthday party" to the calendar → attach tasks: Buy gift, Wrap gift, Write card, Check parking at the venue. Each task can be assigned to a different family member.

The tasks show up alongside the event in the calendar view. As the date approaches, parte. surfaces what still needs doing — not just that the event is coming up, but that the gift still hasn't been bought.

Assign tasks to the right person

One of the most useful things about linked tasks is that they can be assigned to different family members. The event belongs to the whole family — but the tasks can be split up.

Real example: School trip on Wednesday → Mum: pack the packed lunch. Dad: transfer the permission slip money. Emma: remember her waterproof jacket. All three tasks attached to the same event, each person sees their own.

No more standing in the kitchen the night before a trip trying to remember who was supposed to do what. Everyone can see their tasks in parte., and they can tick them off when they're done. When the last task is complete, the event is fully ready.

The tasks that save the morning

Morning routines are where family logistics most often fall apart. Not because of the big things — those get planned. It's the small things that cause the chaos. The PE kit that needed washing. The signed form that's still on the kitchen table. The snack that was supposed to go in the bag.

In parte., you can attach recurring tasks to recurring events. If Jake has football every Thursday, the task "Pack football boots" appears every week, assigned to Jake, linked to that event. It becomes part of the routine rather than something someone has to remember to remember.

How families use this: Swimming every Tuesday → tasks: Pack towel, Pack swimsuit, Pack goggles. Assigned to the child. They see it on their profile and learn to check it off themselves.

Big events, broken down

Some events need more preparation than a single task list. A family holiday. A birthday party you're hosting. A school performance. For these, linked tasks in parte. act like a lightweight project plan attached to your calendar.

Take hosting a birthday party at home:

• • 3 weeks before: Send invitations, order cake, book entertainment
• • 1 week before: Chase RSVPs, buy party bags, plan food
• • Day before: Blow up balloons, prep food, tidy the house
• • Morning of: Set up garden, collect the cake, brief the kids

All of that can live inside the single "Birthday Party" event in parte. As each date approaches, the relevant tasks become visible. Nothing gets forgotten because nothing is hidden in a separate list or a note you wrote three weeks ago.

Fewer conversations about logistics. More family time.

There's a version of family life where the adults spend a significant portion of their time together talking about logistics. What needs doing, who's doing it, did you remember, can you check — it's exhausting, and it crowds out the conversations you actually want to have.

Linked tasks in parte. move those conversations into the app, where they belong. Both parents can see what's been done and what hasn't. Tasks get ticked off silently. Nobody has to ask.

It's a small shift — but it's part of the bigger idea behind parte.: calm infrastructure for the family. A PA, not a therapist. Linked tasks are the boring, high-volume, recoverable part of family life — the part nobody wants to hold in their head — handed off to something that doesn't forget.

parte. is in early access now. Join the waitlist at parte.app to try shared calendars, linked tasks, and AI that turns a school email or a photo of the term calendar into events with everything they need attached.