- What is My Activity Genie?
- It is a calendar and publishing tool built specifically for activity teams in senior living. You build a month of activities once, then turn it into a printed calendar, daily activity flyers, a newsletter, and door signs — without fighting a general-purpose design program.
- Who is it for?
- Activity directors, life-enrichment and recreation staff, and the teams around them in assisted living, memory care, independent living, skilled nursing, and adult day programs. It suits a single community just as well as an organization running several.
- Do I need design skills to use it?
- No. Templates, themes, and an AI assistant handle layout, spacing, and styling. Most people produce a finished, printable month without touching a design tool, and anything the assistant does can be undone from version history.
- Is there a free plan, and do I need a credit card?
- Yes to the free plan, and no card is required to start. It gives you 20 calendars and the document editor, and you can upload your facility logo. Image uploads and AI features are on the paid plans, and a calendar left untouched for 30 days is cleaned up automatically — your logo is always kept. If you want more, you can subscribe inside the app without talking to anyone, and cancel the same way.
- Can I print the calendar, or export it?
- Both. Calendars, flyers, newsletters, and signs export as print-ready PDF or as PNG images, so you can print in-house, send to a print shop, or post them. Word (.docx) export is pre-alpha — available to try when you need to hand someone an editable file, still rough, and not the one to rely on for a finished document. PDF and PNG are the finished paths.
- Is this a replacement for Microsoft Publisher?
- For activity calendars, yes — that is the job it was built to take over. The difference is that it understands what a month of activities is, rather than treating it as boxes of text, so recurring programs, a reusable event library, and copying last month forward all work without rebuilding the page each time.
- Can my team work together on the calendar?
- Yes. Team workspaces let several people work in the same calendar, roles decide who can edit and who can only view, and an approval step lets a manager review a month before it is published. Version history means an edit is never a one-way door.
- Does it work with the calendar we already use?
- It connects to Google Calendar and Outlook, so events already on a shared work calendar can appear alongside what you plan here instead of being retyped.
- How long does it take to build a month?
- The first month usually takes an afternoon, because you are setting up your locations, recurring programs, and the look you want. After that it is far quicker: copy last month forward, let the recurring events fill themselves in, adjust what changed, and print.
- Is resident information safe?
- The product is deliberately not designed to hold protected health information, and we ask you not to put it in. Activity calendars are about programs and schedules, not diagnoses or care details. Your content stays scoped to your own workspace, and roles control who can see and change it.