A morning brief of your family's day
Anna's morning brief brings connected family information into one place so you can check the day and decide what needs you. US$20 a month or US$192 a year, equivalent to US$16 a month. Standard 14-day free trial, no card required.
Updated 16 September 2026. Written by the team behind Anna.
Start with today's decisions
A useful morning brief does not need to repeat every item you could find in a calendar. It should help you see the appointment that changes the school run, the task you need to review, and the question somebody still has to answer. Anna follows connected sources and helps organise that information. Treat the brief as a starting point for the day, then check the original message or calendar entry when a detail matters. It is easier to make one clear decision over breakfast than to open five separate sources and hope the important part stands out.
A brief time that fits the household
The default morning brief time is 7 am. Check the time you have chosen and your timezone in Settings, especially when travelling or after a change in routine. Delivery depends on the channels you have configured and the information available. A paused brief, an unavailable source, or a quiet day can affect what arrives. Do not treat the absence of a message as proof there is nothing to do. If you need a timed reminder for something important, ask Anna for that reminder explicitly. A morning summary and a reminder to leave for an appointment do different jobs.
Put the calendar beside the tasks
An appointment has a time and place. A task might instead have a deadline, a person who needs to approve it, or a missing detail. Seeing both together helps you decide when to do the preparation. For example, a parent-teacher meeting at 4 pm might mean somebody else handles pickup, while a form due tomorrow needs a reply tonight. Keep those separate rather than turning everything into calendar events. Ask Anna about the item you want to understand, and review any proposed change before relying on it. A task deadline alone does not create an automatic alert.
Use a realistic first week
Connect the sources that carry the ordinary family week. Start with the school mailbox and the calendar you already maintain, then check a few briefs against those sources. Include a day with a changed arrangement and a day when there is less happening. The point is to see whether the brief helps with your real decisions, not whether it looks convincing in an example. If an item is missing or confusing, name the source and the detail you expected. Keep an important notice available until the date or request has been checked. Anna cannot guarantee every message will be captured correctly.
Turn one item into a clear next step
A brief may tell you about a request, but it cannot decide every detail of your family's response. If you need to reply to a teacher, ask Anna for a draft and check the recipient and wording before approving it. If you need groceries, Anna can help prepare a cart; you complete checkout yourself. If the calendar shows a pickup conflict, agree which adult is collecting the child. Do not confuse a suggestion, draft, or task with a completed action. The useful outcome is a clear next step and an owner, not a longer list of things that look finished.
Keep both adults working from the same plan
An item in your brief can still need a conversation. One adult might know that the dentist moved an appointment over the phone, while the connected calendar still has the old time. Update the source and confirm any practical handover directly. If your partner joins the household setup, check that they can reach the information they need and know which arrangements are final. Avoid assuming that a shared view means somebody accepted a task. For a practical example, read school pickup and the shared family calendar guide.
What Anna does not do
Anna does not guarantee that a brief contains every event or arrives at an exact minute on every day. She does not make outbound phone calls or complete purchases. Supported outgoing messages need approval. A brief cannot replace direct contact for an urgent change in childcare or an emergency. Use it to reduce the work of finding and organising information, while keeping the family's decisions and important checks with the people involved. For questions about how Anna handles family data, contact support@hianna.ai.
Connect the brief to the rest of the week
The brief is more useful when the underlying information is clear. Use school emails into calendar events to make school dates usable and school emails and forms to keep the request and its next step together. If you are balancing a work calendar too, see an AI assistant for working parents. The family-assistant guide explains how an assistant differs from an organiser you maintain yourself or a display that shows a shared calendar.
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