BackpackBuddy reads your kids' teacher emails, finds every assignment and due date, and puts it straight on your Google Calendar with a reminder — automatically. No more digging through your inbox to figure out what's due tomorrow.
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🔒 We only read emails from addresses you give us — nothing else in your inbox, ever.
Module 4, Lesson 37 + Read for 10 minutes
HomeworkMath worksheet pages 12-14, due Thursday
HomeworkPermission slip due Friday for field trip
Due SoonWeek of 4/7–4/11 saved to Google Drive
AttachmentYou're not a bad parent. You're a busy one — and homework reminders shouldn't be a second job.
It came in Monday with eleven other emails. By Wednesday night, nobody remembers it exists — until it's overdue.
Sticky notes, group chats, mental notes — none of it survives a busy week. Things fall through the cracks.
One teacher emails a PDF, another writes a paragraph, another links to a class site. Tracking it all by hand doesn't scale.
Sign in with Google. Tell us your kids' teacher email addresses. That's it.
Our AI scans teacher emails daily — including linked pages and attached PDFs — and pulls out homework, due dates, and instructions.
Each assignment becomes a Google Calendar event with a popup reminder, plus a daily digest so nothing slips by.
Set it up once. Every assignment lands on your calendar from then on.
Homework, worksheets, reading logs, and projects all get added to your Google Calendar with a popup reminder before they're due.
Attached PDFs are read automatically and re-checked for assignment details, so nothing hides in an attachment.
One clean evening summary of every assignment due, so you and your kid can plan the night before — not the morning of.
Track homework reminders for multiple children across different teachers, grades, and even different schools.
BackpackBuddy checks for existing calendar events before creating new ones, so your calendar stays clean — not cluttered.
We never store your emails. We process and discard. Your data stays in your Google account.
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BackpackBuddy reads the teacher emails you tell it to watch, including any linked pages or attached PDFs, and uses Claude AI to pull out assignments, due dates, and instructions automatically.
Yes. Every assignment becomes a Google Calendar event with a popup reminder, so it shows up on your phone or computer ahead of the due date.
Yes. You can add multiple teachers per child on the Family and Premium plans, and each one's emails get scanned and turned into reminders separately.
If no specific date is given, the assignment still appears in your daily digest so you don't miss it — BackpackBuddy only adds a calendar event when there's a date or deadline to attach it to.
Yes. BackpackBuddy includes a 30-day free trial with full features, no credit card required, on every plan.
That's fine — BackpackBuddy works with plain email, whatever your teacher already sends. No school adoption or special app needed. Want the bigger picture on getting all those teacher emails under control? See managing school email overload.
Set up in 3 minutes — connect your Google account and tell us your kids' teacher emails. Every assignment becomes a reminder, automatically. Once it's running, every event also syncs to your Google Calendar on your phone.
🔒 We only read emails from addresses you give us — nothing else in your inbox, ever.
No credit card required · Cancel anytime · Your data stays in your Google account.
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