How topics work

In Clearly you don't send loose messages. You start a topic about one thing, such as a pickup time, a school form or a doctor's visit, and it stays together until it's settled.

Kinds of topic

When you write a topic, Clearly works out how your co-parent can answer it, based on what you wrote:

• A quick question they can answer Yes or No in one tap.
• A question they answer in a few words.
• An FYI they mark as seen.
• A conversation, for anything that needs back and forth.

To send it another way, change the wording.

Statuses

Each topic shows where it is, for example:

• Waiting for you or Waiting for co-parent
• Resolution pending: one of you proposed how it ends.
• Resolved
• Closed · not accepted, Closed · no reply or Closed · no activity
• No longer needed

Open and closed

On iPhone, Topics has Open and Closed tabs. On the web, filter by Open, For you, Closed or All.

A closed topic stays on the record. To raise it again, start a new topic.