The daily diary and photos parents love

Your diary, their feed

The Today board is the heart of MinderHQ. In the app, "Today" is a fast native tab; "Manage" opens these same views. On the web workspace, the board is the first thing you see.

Everything you log — meals, bottles, sleeps, nappies, activities and notes — lands in "Today's diary" at the bottom of the board, and appears in each child's parent feed at the same moment. Write it once; each family sees only their own child's day.

Log an entry with a photo

The quick-log bar appears at the bottom of the Today board and works the same for one child or six. If something happened earlier, set the time field before you log — left empty, the entry is stamped now.

1. 1Check each child in as they arrive with "Check in" — only children who are in can be selected for logging.
2. 2Tap a child's face to select them. Tap more faces, or "Select all in", to log for several children at once.
3. 3In the panel that appears, choose "Meal", "Bottle", "Sleep", "Nappy", "Activity" or "Note".
4. 4Add the details — for a meal that's the type ("Breakfast", "Snack", "Lunch" or "Tea") and how much ("Ate/drank all", "Most", "Some" or "None") — plus an optional note.
5. 5To add a photo, tap the camera icon ("Attach photo") and pick a picture from your phone.
6. 6Tap "Log for …" — the number shows how many children you selected.

Photo consent decides who sees what

Each child's profile holds a set of consents, and two of them do the gatekeeping here. "Photos shared with you" covers photos of the child in their own family's private diary. "Group photos" covers whether the child may appear in photos other families receive — a craft-table shot, say. Website and social media photos are a third, separate consent, never bundled in.

Parents can answer these themselves from the "details & permissions" link on their diary, or you can record each one on the child's profile as "Granted", "Declined", "Withdrawn" or "Not asked". The rule is strict on purpose: anything other than "Granted" blocks that use. Declines are enforced automatically when each family's feed is built, so you never have to remember who has opted out.

What parents see

Every family gets a private diary link that opens in any browser, and the MinderHQ parent app shows the same feed. Entries arrive grouped by day, each with its time, and photos show as big cards parents can tap to see full size. The feed covers the last 7 days — a rolling conversation about now, not a scrapbook to scroll forever.

Fix a mistake — and why times matter

Fat thumbs happen, so the diary is fixable without being flimsy.

Every entry carries the time it happened — the moment you logged it, or the earlier time you chose. Honest times are what make the diary worth keeping: parents check when the last bottle was, and a well-timed diary backs up your register if you ever need to look back at a particular day. Deleting takes two taps on purpose, so a stray thumb can't wipe part of the day.

1. 1In "Today's diary", tap an entry's text to open it for editing.
2. 2Change the note or the time, then tap "Save".
3. 3To remove an entry, tap the "✕" at the end of its row, then tap "Really delete?" to confirm.