The Parenting Planner has a parenting calendar view that turns the text of clauses 2 (Live with / spend time with) and 5 (Special occasions) into a visual calendar. Useful for understanding what the routine you’ve drafted actually looks like across a year.Documentation Index
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Why a calendar view
Drafting a routine in text — “alternating Friday-to-Sunday with Wednesday-evening dinners” — is straightforward. Imagining what that produces across a 12-month year is harder. The calendar view solves the imagination problem by showing it. Two specific moments where the calendar pays off:When negotiating the routine
A parent who can see exactly which weekends, school holidays, and special occasions sit with whom is harder to talk into a deal that turns out worse than they expected. The calendar visualises the deal.
When checking the routine works
Some routines look clean in text but produce ugly patterns in practice — every public holiday falling with one parent, all of school holidays falling outside the alternating pattern, etc. The calendar surfaces these edge cases.
When a one-off variation is being requested
“Can the children be with me on Easter weekend this year?” — easier to assess against the calendar than against the text. Short circuits a lot of arguments.
When children are old enough to consult
Older children often want to know what their schedule looks like. The calendar is the format that makes sense to them.
What’s on the calendar
Five layers, each colour-coded:| Layer | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Routine schedule | The week-by-week alternating pattern from clause 2 |
| School holidays | School-holiday blocks per the school calendar for the children’s school region, allocated per clause 5 |
| Special occasions | Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, children’s birthdays, parents’ birthdays per clause 5 |
| Public holidays | Public holidays in the children’s home state |
| One-off variations | Specific exceptions logged (“Children with mother for cousin’s wedding 14 March”) |
Calendar views
Week
Standard week view. Useful for “next two weeks at a glance”.
Month
Standard month grid. Useful for planning the upcoming month.
Year
Compact yearly grid. Useful for assessing the full annual pattern at a glance — what proportion of the year sits where, where the imbalances are, where school holidays fall.
Whose-time stats
Breakdown by % time per parent — annual, term-time-only, holiday-only. Useful for the “how much time is each of us actually getting?” question without manual maths.
Generating the calendar
The platform produces the calendar from your drafted clauses 2 and 5 plus your children’s school region (set in the Master Case File). If your clauses are precise enough to produce a calendar, the calendar appears immediately. If a clause is too vague — “alternating weekends” without specifying which weekend the alternation starts — the platform asks a few clarifying questions to anchor the calendar, without requiring you to change the clause text itself.One-off variations
Real life produces variations. The platform handles them as overlays on the underlying schedule:- Add a variation — pick a date or date range, specify who has the children for that block, and add a note (“school camp”, “cousin’s wedding”, “parent’s surgery recovery”).
- Variations don’t change the underlying schedule — they’re overlays that show on the calendar as visually distinct blocks.
- Variations log to a history — useful when you want to remember what variations have happened over time, particularly for chronology purposes.
- Variations can be agreed via the platform — propose a variation, the other party accepts (if they’re also using RYTZ in a connected matter, future feature), or accept by message.
Exporting the calendar
Three export formats:- PDF — printable monthly or annual view. Useful for fridge or wallet reference.
- iCal feed — subscribe from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook. Updates automatically when the routine changes.
- CSV — for analysis in spreadsheet form, e.g. computing exact-time splits for s75(2)(c) future-needs purposes.
Sharing with the other party
Where the parties are co-operating, the calendar is one of the most useful shared artefacts:- Read-only share link — the other party gets a link that lets them view (but not edit) the calendar
- Joint subscription — if the other party is also a RYTZ user (in a future feature), both calendars stay in sync
- PDF export — for the simplest case, just email the PDF
Calendar and Court Readiness
The calendar feeds into the broader Court Readiness Matrix:- A clearly-drafted routine that produces a clean calendar is evidence the plan can be implemented
- One-off variations logged over time become evidence of how the plan has actually operated
- Time-percentage stats are useful for s75(2)(c) future-needs assessments in any related property matter
What the calendar will not do
- It will not enforce the schedule. The calendar shows what the plan says; if the other party doesn’t follow it, the platform’s Non-Compliance Playbook covers the response.
- It will not handle late changes from the other party. Variations logged through the platform record what happened; they don’t make the change automatically.
- It will not advise on whether a routine works. The calendar is descriptive; the Strategic briefing is where evaluation happens.
What’s next
The eleven clauses
Clause 2 (Live with / spend time with) + clause 5 (Special occasions) drive the calendar.
Drafting your first plan
Where the routine is initially drafted.
Strategic briefing
Where the platform evaluates whether the routine works.
Case Planner
Court-date calendar (separate from parenting calendar).