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.
An empty dashboard on day one is expected, not broken. Log normally and it starts being useful after about three days, with the full picture at two weeks.
Why yours looks emptier than the demo's
The demo comes loaded with a week of sample data so that every chart has something to draw the moment you open it. Your own household starts with nothing in it, and the demo's data does not come with you when you subscribe — it belonged to a pretend baby.
Nothing is missing and nothing needs switching on. The charts are drawn from what you have logged, so they arrive as you log.
Roughly what appears when
- Straight away. Time since the last feed and the last sleep, at the top of both screens. This is the number most people open baybay for, and it works from your first entry.
- Same day. Today's totals, and today's entries listed under the buttons.
- Two to three days. The history board — a column per day — starts being worth looking at, and daily feed and nap counts have something to compare.
- About a week. A typical day emerges, and bedtime drift starts to mean something.
- Two weeks. The pattern charts are reading a full fortnight, which is where they settle.
The heading tells you how much it has
The Patterns heading counts the days actually drawn, not the days it would like to have. On your third day it reads "Patterns · last 3 days" and climbs from there, so you never have to guess whether a chart is thin because your baby had an unusual week or because baybay has not seen enough yet.
Two windows sit underneath that, on purpose. The pattern charts fill up to fourteen days — long enough to show a direction. The history board below them is always the last seven, one column per day, which is the span you actually compare against yesterday.
Gaps do not break anything
A day you forgot to log is a thinner day in the charts and nothing worse. baybay plots the days that have data rather than assuming a missing day was a day with no feeds, so a weekend away does not read as a fortnight of decline.