Why Every Family Should Have a Shared Family Folder
Family Folder is a web app where your family can manage tasks, events, photos, discussions, documents, and frequently asked questions, all accessible to everyone in your family. Or at least everyone who you want to give access to 👀.
I have a document folder that I use for all my families paper documents. It sits in the wardrobe in our spare bedroom, that is also an office when I work from home and a play room whenever our daughter wants it to be. In this folder I try and keep everything that is relevant to me and my family, passports, receipts, birth certificates, parking tickets 😤. But there are lots of things that I don’t keep in there either because I never had the information on paper or it’s too confidential to put in an easy to access paper folder. Things like life insurance details, bank account details, my employment contract and so on. My wife has something similar except it’s on her email and various digital documents on her laptop. But don’t ask her to find anything, ever!
In our kitchen we have a Gruffalo calendar (”What’s a Gruffalo?” If you know then you get it 🙂). This calendar is the central nervous system of our family or at least we try to make it be. At any time a family member can look at the calendar and know what is going on or planned. That’s the idea anyway.
Like most other families we also have, the kitchen drawer, that has take-out menus, spare change, hair bobbins, Post-It lists, contact details for various tradesmen, lotto tickets, various receipts and a sticker with the WiFi code on it for when guests come to the house. A relatively new addition to the drawer is a printout of instructions for the baby sitter. This drawer contains the answer to many questions related to our family and our house. A bit like Grandad!
My sister has all of the above and a fridge door that acts as a sort of catch-all repository for everything not in the calendar or the kitchen drawer. It has so many fridge magnets and finger paintings that one more piece of art risks tipping the thing over.
Why am I detailing the disorganised storage of my family? Because every family is the same. Their collective lives exist in various paper folders, calendars, kitchen drawers and walls, and fridge doors. Call me selfish but I’d like to bring some order to the beautiful disorder of our family and I cannot take another question from my brother about what date we are all going away together for the weekend.
Introducing Family Folder, which I am almost done creating 🎉. Sign up for early access and be one of the first to bring order to the beautiful chaos of family life! It’s free to use for 30 days.
Family Folder is a web app where your family can manage tasks, events, photos, discussions, documents, and frequently asked questions, all accessible to everyone in your family. Or at least everyone who you want to give access to 👀. My hope for my family, and yours is that Family Folder becomes your document folder, calendar, and fridge door all online. All of our family’s information in one place—accessible anytime, anywhere. No more misplaced documents or double-booked weekends. And with any luck fewer questions.
I’ve looked around for a tool similar to Family Folder and there are some to be sure. Some are shared family calendars, shared photo storage, shared recipes, but I want Family Folder to be all of these things and more for my family as well as a family project management tool without the complexity and jargon. It’s designed specifically for families, with features like FAQs for quick answers, task delegation, and even discussion threads for planning that next big trip.
I created it so that my wife and I, and our extended families, and eventually our two daughters, have a place to store all of the information that is relevant to our families.
I hope you and your family find it useful.
