Josh Sobin, a father of two in Warren, N.J., said that he and his wife would do a back-and-forth dance of “did you sign him up" whenever actionable emails arrived for their sons.

He set up Fambot to help handle the streams of information flooding the family’s inbox, like math quizzes, Hebrew school schedules and fruit platters the family promised to bring. Now, the app directs all incoming emails to a shared to-do list and indicates who owns responsibility for what.

“We are all working and we’re all trying to spend time with our kids,” Sobin, 48, said. It’s a win, he added, “if we can focus on those two things and not have to spend time on the minutiae.”

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