Change or skip one date of a repeating event without touching the rest
The change
You can edit a single occurrence of a repeating event without breaking the entire series. Move Tuesday's piano lesson to 4pm instead of 3pm, and next Tuesday stays at 3pm. Delete one soccer practice because of a holiday, and the rest of the season continues as planned.
Families rarely want a change to apply to every week. Usually it is one lesson that moved or one practice that got rained out, and the rest of the schedule should stay put.
What it means now
You can move, edit, or delete any single date. On a computer, drag that day's card to a different day and only that occurrence moves. To change just the time of one date, open it and change the time, and NestBoard asks whether you mean that day or the whole series. To drop one date, open it and choose "Delete just this day". You can also ask Robin and name the day, as in "move this Friday's practice to 5pm" or "skip Art Club on October 15".
A moved or skipped day is remembered against the date it originally sat on. That is why changing the repeat itself is the one case worth knowing about. A new pattern can leave that day pointing at a date the series no longer has. Switch Art Club from Tuesdays to Wednesdays and the Tuesday you skipped is no longer a Tuesday the series touches. NestBoard clears that stranded day away when you save the new pattern instead of leaving it sitting there, so switching Art Club back to Tuesdays months later will not bring an old skip back to life. Nothing else in the series moves and nothing reappears in the wrong place, but if that week still needs skipping, it needs skipping again on its new date.
Forwarded email works on a single date too. Your household has its own forwarding address, and an email sent to it that cancels next week's meeting takes next week off and leaves every other week where it is, the same as opening that day in the app and choosing "Delete just this day". A change of time reads the same way: "practice is at 5pm next Tuesday" moves that Tuesday and nothing else. Ending a repeating event altogether is a separate instruction that the email has to give, with wording like "cancelled for the rest of term". When NestBoard cannot tell which date an email means, it changes nothing and writes back to ask. A new name or a new place cannot ride on one date, so a forwarded email that renames or relocates something moves or cancels the date it names and tells you it left the name and place alone.
If you have tried any of this and it did not work the way you expected, tell us at hello@mynestboard.com.