How it works
A real day.
From sign-up to Sunday review.
Doorpost is not complicated to start. Here is what it looks like for a real homeschool family — from the first ten minutes to the end of the week — so you can judge for yourself whether it fits how your household already works.
First ten minutes
Sign up. Add the family.
Name the household.
Create an account at /sign-up — email and a password, nothing more. Then add each family member: parents first (they become admins), then each child with a first name and, if you like, a birthday. The birthday is optional and is never shown publicly.
Give the household a name — whatever you call yourselves, “The Walker Family” or “Cornerstone Academy” or just “Home.” That name appears on the Wall Mode header and on the state reports you print.
- No payment card. Doorpost is free during the beta.
- Each family member gets a role: parent (admin access) or child (a limited view, with no Vault).
- Connect your calendar: iCloud, Google, or Outlook. Doorpost reads it every 15 minutes. Turn on two-way in Settings to send Doorpost events back.
Setup · five minutes
Set the Wall PIN.
Mount whatever tablet you have.
Open /wall on the kitchen tablet — any tablet running any modern browser. Set a four- to six-digit PIN for Wall Mode. The PIN keeps anyone from leaving Wall Mode; the Vault never appears on the wall at all.
The Wall Mode dashboard wakes up to today's verse, the day's events, and each family member's chore column. No app to install. No account required on the tablet itself — a parent pairs it once and it stays signed in to the family.
- Works on any tablet — iPad, Android, Fire — in any modern browser. No App Store purchase required for Wall Mode.
- Children can have their own PIN to open a view of just their own list.
- Screen stays on. Doorpost uses the browser's wake-lock API so the tablet doesn't sleep during the day.
Every morning
The verse is already there.
The day is already planned.
Morning. The tablet on the kitchen wall shows today's verse — in a size readable from across the room. Below it: the day's Doorpost events and the calendar feeds you subscribe to. Below that: each child's chore column for the day.
Nobody had to set this up this morning. Nobody unlocked a phone during breakfast. The household walked downstairs and the day was already on the wall.
- The verse changes daily from Doorpost's year of verses. A rest-themed verse appears on the Sabbath automatically.
- Events show the time and who they're for — enough to plan the morning without reading a full calendar entry.
- Chore columns are today only. Yesterday's undone tasks do not pile up as failures; they roll forward only if the parent has set them to repeat.
The school day
Tick off the lesson.
The record keeps itself.
After the lesson ends, the parent ticks it off on their phone. Doorpost keeps the lesson record for the course.
Attendance records itself when you tick off a lesson. No separate attendance log, no spreadsheet. At the end of the term, the attendance total is already there for the state report.
- State reporting PDFs for PA, NY, TX, FL, OH, VA, CA, CO, IL, NC and WA, from Settings.
- Grandparents can be given read-only access to follow along.
End of the week
The quiet end of the week.
Rest, then plan.
Each morning, a short email lists what's coming up. You choose which emails and alerts reach you in Settings.
The Sabbath chore board has already cleared with a quiet note. The wall is calm. The verse is a rest passage. Next week is already in the calendar from the recurring events set weeks ago. The household is ready.
- Next week's events visible on Sunday from the calendar view — useful for coordinating the coming week without opening multiple apps.
- The academic year builds quietly in the background. By June, attendance and courses are already recorded.
Begin where you are.
Ten minutes to set up. The kitchen wall knows the day before tomorrow morning. Free during the beta — no card.