Add a whole newsletter at once with Magic Add
Paste or photograph a school newsletter, a party invitation or a club email, and Equal House suggests the events and chores hidden inside it.
Where to find it
Tasks tab → Add → Magic Add
School newsletters are where family admin hides. A single email can contain a non-uniform day, a trip payment deadline, a bake sale and a swimming kit reminder — and turning that into five calendar entries by hand is exactly the job nobody volunteers for.
- Tasks tab → Add → Magic Add.
- Paste the text, or take a photo of the letter.
- Equal House reads it and proposes the events and tasks it found.
- Review them, change what is wrong, and confirm.
Change one before it goes in
From version 1.16.0 of the app.
Tap Edit beside a suggestion to add it and open it in the full form, the same one you use for any event or task. Set who is going, a reminder, a repeat or anything else the letter did not say, and save. Back on the list, that one reads Added and the rest are still waiting for you to tick and confirm. The Review Inbox’s Edit works the same way.
From Bric’s page
From version 1.16.0 of the app.
Bric can read… on the Bric tab opens Magic Add three ways: A letter or list goes straight to the camera, A screenshot to your photos, and Paste text puts what you copied in the box. Pasted text waits for you: nothing is read until you tap Find events & tasks.
Nothing is saved until you confirm
Every suggestion is shown before anything reaches your calendar. This is deliberate — an app that silently added events from a photo would be unusable the first time it misread one.
Who reads it
What you paste or photograph, or the words of what you say, is read by Amazon Bedrock, our AI provider, in the UK and the EU. See your data and privacy.
How many you get
Magic Add comes with a monthly allowance for the household: a small one on Free, and a bigger one with Pro. The numbers are under AI allowances. If you use them all, Magic Add says so and tells you when they come back. A photo you send Bric in a chat counts as one too.
What it is good at, and less good at
It is good at dates, times and named events. It is less certain about implied things — “as usual” and “the usual place” mean nothing to it — so check anything that depends on context the letter did not spell out.
Related
If you would rather forward the emails than open the app, see email forwarding, which does the same job automatically for anything sent to your household’s private address.
Updated 15 October 2026. Something here wrong or missing? Tell us — we'd rather fix the page than answer it twice.
