Groups

What it's about

Groups bring people together across household boundaries – the sports club, the class parents' team, the flatshare crowd.

Why it's here

Not everything you plan belongs to your household. If you're organising the tennis club's summer party, you need a different set of people than your family – and your son's training schedule shouldn't flood the family calendar, but run as a separate layer.

How it works

A group has its own name, its own members (from other households too), and its own events. You give the group a role (club, work, school, say) and use the event policy to decide whether every member can create events, or only admins. Group events land in the calendar with their own colour – so you can tell at a glance whether something is “Family” or “Tennis club”.

Who gets into a group

You add people from your household and your children directly. Everyone else joins with the group code themselves.

Joining with the code is that person's own consent: the other members see their profile, even if they belong to several households, until they leave. If someone linked the profile to one in their own household before that, it stays visible to that household after the person leaves, until either side undoes the link in the edit dialog.

Someone who was added without using the code is only visible as long as they share a household with the group's owner or with the person who added them, and only with their profile from that household. If the shared household ends, they stay in the group, but the others no longer see their profile. Links and copies made with a code are the exception: a linked profile stays visible to that household until either side undoes the link in the edit dialog, and a copy stays as a separate profile in the other household. A child without a login depends on the person who added them in the same way: if that person no longer shares a household with the child, a group admin from the child's household removes the child and then adds them again.

If someone is missing from the group or can't be picked as a participant, they simply join again with the group code. That puts their entry right.

If someone leaves the group or the group is deleted, the people affected drop out of an event the next time it's saved with “This and all following events” or “Only this event”, and they get no more reminders for it.

Group tasks stay with the group. If the person leaving put one in a list of their own, it moves to a list of the group. If there isn't one yet, patchio creates one with the group's name.

In practice

Set up the group “Tennis Ladies 50+”, invite six club colleagues (all from other households), and set the event policy to “admins only”. The weekly training sessions show up in everyone's calendar – without anyone else in their households seeing them.