Why Every Family Needs a Shared Family Email
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Between school newsletters, sports schedules, dentist appointment reminders, party invites, and permission slips, it's easy for family communication to fall through the cracks. Messages get buried, forwarded, or missed entirely— and that creates stress for everyone.
That’s why more and more families are choosing to create a shared family email— a single email address that serves as the central hub for all things family-related. In this post, we’ll break down why every household should consider setting one up in Maple’s family app and how Maple Inbox makes managing it simple and stress-free.
What Is a Shared Family Email?
A shared family email is a dedicated email address (like smithfamily@mapleinbox.com) that everyone in your household can access and use for family-related communication.
Instead of relying on one parent to forward emails or sort through their own inbox, everything important is sent to one place and visible to all.
Why Your Family Needs a Shared Family Email
1. Centralize Important Information
School forms, team rosters, field trip updates, flight confirmations, medical reminders—it all adds up fast. A shared email ensures:
No more “Did you get that email from the school?”
One place to search when you need to double-check a date, document, or instruction.
Everyone stays in the loop, all the time.
2. Reduce the Mental Load
One of the biggest challenges families face is the uneven distribution of planning and communication duties. A shared email address helps distribute the load by making access and information visible to all caregivers or co-parents.
3. Simplify Your Digital Life
Tired of your personal inbox getting buried under school updates, practice time changes, and birthday party RSVPs? A shared family email keeps all your family logistics in one place—and out of your personal inbox.
With Maple Inbox, you can create a shared family email (and connect any external email) directly in Maple. All your important messages come to one central place, where you can keep communication organized, shareable, and actionable.
Meet Maple Inbox: The Smarter Way to Manage Your Shared Family Email
Creating a shared email is only part of the solution. To make it truly useful, you need a way to take action on those emails— like adding events to your calendar, assigning tasks, or saving info for later. That’s where Maple Inbox really provides value…
What Is Maple Inbox?
Maple Inbox is part of the Maple app for family planning— your all-in-one hub for calendars, meal planning, to-dos, lists, folders, and now, email. It creates a shared family email right inside the app, so you can:
✅ Automatically turn emails into calendar events
✅ Quickly add tasks from emails to your to-do lists
✅ Make sure everyone has access to family emails and know who has seen what
No more lost permission slips or last-minute schedule scrambles. Maple Inbox makes it easy to keep your emails organized— they practically organize themselves!
How to Set It Up
Go to Inbox in the app
Create your shared family email (e.g., yourfamilyname@mapleinbox.com)
Connect any external email you'd like to forward messages from (you’ll find this in your Maple settings)
Share your Maple Inbox with your partner or family members
Once you're set up, Maple automatically receives and organizes your messages— so you can turn emails into calendar events, to-do list items, and more.
No more toggling between inboxes or missing the sign-up deadline for soccer. Everything your family needs is in one place.
A shared family email is one of the simplest ways to reduce stress, improve communication, and run your household more smoothly.
If you haven’t checked out Maple yet, give it a go. Maple is the easiest, most powerful way for families to keep it all together.