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Your first day

The app is open and it is empty. Here is the whole of what to do on day one, which is less than you think.

Your address

Your household has its own web address. Saving it is the one thing worth doing before anything else.

Put it on your home screen

baybay opens full screen, with no browser in the way, once you add it to your home screen. It takes about fifteen seconds.

Logging a feed

Bottle or breast, an amount if you are counting, and the time already filled in. Two taps for most feeds.

Naps and nights

One tap starts a sleep, one tap ends it, and baybay works out how long it ran so you never type a duration.

When the charts fill in

Your dashboard is nearly empty on day one, and that is expected. Here is what fills it and roughly when.

The daily rhythm

An optional plan for the day. Set one and the log screen shows what is coming next and ticks things off as you log them.

Why something did not tick off

baybay matches what you log against the plan by time, and is deliberately generous about it. Here is the rule.

I forgot to log it

Nothing has to be entered the moment it happens. Any feed or sleep can be put in afterwards with the right time on it.

I forgot to end a nap

The timer has been running since this morning. Ending it at the time they actually woke takes one tap and one correction.

Adding your partner

Share one short code and they can log feeds and sleeps too. No account to create, no invitation email to chase.

What the code lets someone do

Somebody who joins with your household code can log, and cannot change your settings, your children or your code.

I lost the link

If you set the household up, your email address gets it back. If you joined with a code, ask the person who did.

My sign-in link did not work

Sign-in links work once and expire quickly. Almost every failure is one of those two, and both are easy to fix.

Getting your data out

Everything your household has logged is a single file, and you can download the whole of it whenever you like.

What the demo is

The real application on a week of sample data, for a couple of days. One thing about it surprises people, so it is first.

Is baybay right for us?

What it tracks, what it deliberately does not, and who would be happier with something else.

Why only feeds and sleep

Every other tracker records more than baybay does. Here is the argument for recording less, and what it costs you.

Why there is no Docker image

baybay installs by copying files onto ordinary PHP hosting. What that costs, what it buys, and why it will still install in five years.

One file for your family

Your household is its own database file, not rows in a shared table. That is a privacy decision before it is a technical one.