For the host who wants the how-to
A short guide to the practical parts: what to put in the first message, what comes back, and how to shape the page by replying until the invitation reads like you wrote it yourself.
Using Jitabi is closer to texting a capable friend than filling a form. You send what you know, it drafts a page, and you answer that draft with the changes you want. The one habit that pays off is making the first message a little more complete than feels natural: four facts carry the whole draft, and a careful paragraph there saves three rounds of edits later.
Those four facts are the occasion, the date, a rough time, and the place. Everything else — the dress note, the line about gifts, the wording of the welcome — can arrive after you have seen what it made. The draft is a starting point you react to, and reacting is far easier than composing from a blank page.
Written the way a host would actually type them — plain, a little uneven, complete enough to work from.
Hi Jitabi, Marta's turning 40. Birthday dinner Saturday 14 November at seven, at Il Ritrovo on Via Roma, around twenty people. I'd like a page they can reply yes or no to.
Hi Jitabi, garden party for Lukas on 5 September at ours, numbers not fixed yet. Draft it now and mark the guest count as still open rather than guessing.
Two changes: dinner is half seven now, and add a line that Marta would rather everyone come hungry than bring flowers.
The draft is private. Anyone who somehow gets the link early sees nothing, so you can rough it in tonight, fix the odd line tomorrow, and only then let it out.
The page gets its myjoyfullday.site address. That single link is the whole distribution — copy it into the family group, text it to one guest, or print it as a QR on paper cards.
Edits keep working the same way. Reply with the change and the live page updates, so the next guest to open the link reads the corrected version, not last week's.
The last step is the human one. Read the draft out loud, the way you would read a message to a friend, and reply to whatever sounds off. Hosts who care about phrasing tend to end up with pages that sound written by them, because the assistant absorbs their corrections line by line. And when you would rather have the keys entirely, open the same event in the web app and rewrite a section yourself — it is one page, whichever window you work in.
How it works
Name, date, rough time, place. Say what is genuinely undecided and the draft will mark it honestly instead of inventing a detail you have to apologise for later.
Open the page it returns and reply with the changes. This is the whole editing loop — you talk, it adjusts, until the wording sits right.
Group chat, individual messages, a printed card. Every guest opens the same live page, so retyping the address never becomes a job.
Answers arrive on the guest list with plus-ones inside your limits, and the quiet guests get a reminder later without disturbing anyone who already said yes.
Questions
Four facts: who or what the event is for, the date, a rough time, and where. If something is genuinely undecided, say so in plain words — the draft marks it as to be confirmed rather than inventing one.
It works from what you send. A thinner first message just leaves more to correct afterwards, so the careful version saves edits. Nothing is locked by the first draft — you can always reply with additions.
Yes, and that is the point of a page over a printed card. Reply with the change and the live version updates while the address stays the same. Before publishing, drafts remain private to you alone.
It talks to you. Guests never enter the chat — they open the page link and reply there, and their answer lands on your list. So the assistant's number is always one, however many guests you send to.
No. You can start free and build the first invitation to see how it reads. Upgrades arrive as your guest list grows rather than to unlock the basics; the numbers live on the pricing page.
Get Started
Write the party the way you would describe it to a friend, then reply to what comes back. That is the entire method, start to finish.
