Your contacts stay yours. The directory stays the school's. Nobody maintains a secret spreadsheet.
So the directory can be fixed by the person who knows it's wrong.
People is the school's directory and your own contact book in one place — staff, students, guardians, partners — without either one overwriting the other.
Try it freeWhat People does
Search a parent's name and get their children, their language, and whether you may contact them.
So whoever is at the front desk can help without playing twenty questions.
The directory tells you which records are broken before you need them.
So you find the missing phone number in September, not during an emergency.
Sound familiar?
- “I keep my own contact list because the official directory is always stale.”
- “A dad's at the desk, I have his name and no idea which student he belongs to.”
- “We find out a phone number is wrong on the day we have to use it.”
People exists so the secret spreadsheet never has to be written.
What you're using now
Every school runs two directories: the official one, which is stale, and the secret spreadsheet on someone's desktop, which is accurate because they maintain it themselves. The official one can't be fixed by the person who knows it's wrong, and the spreadsheet leaves with them. Binder keeps both layers on purpose — the org's record and your private margin notes on it — so nobody has to choose.
Every Binder app works like this
Built for your phone first
Every screen works in a hallway, not just at a desk.
Paper is a first-class input
Point your camera at a roster, a sign-out sheet, a stack of work — Binder drafts, you approve.
Your district's words
Labels and letters render in your district's own terminology.
AI drafts, people decide
Nothing becomes a record until a person says so.
More on how Binder works: the platform · security & privacy
Every Feature You'd Expect. Every Feature You'll Need.
The ordinary things a tool like this has to do. Listed so you can check them off.
- Staff, students, guardians, district partners and private contacts
- Search across every kind at once
- Starring, private to you
- Personal phone, email and notes on a directory person
- Invitations and role assignment
- Staff types you can rename and reorder
14 days, no credit card, nothing to install. Explore with sample data, or bring your own roster.