The TwoNests Guide

🏡🏡 Two Nests

Your child moves between two separate homes. The calendar labels moves as Custody events, shift patterns fill in as color-coded work-shift blocks, and Handoff is built around drop-off/pick-up moments.

🏡 Nesting

The child stays in one home; you and your co-parent rotate in and out. The calendar shows "on duty at the nest" blocks instead of custody moves, and Handoff becomes a changeover checklist for switching who's "on."

👋 Home

Your day at a glance — for whichever child is currently active, and whichever day you're looking at.

• Use the ‹ › arrows next to the day heading to look back at yesterday, or ahead to tomorrow (and beyond) — a "Jump back to today" link appears whenever you've wandered off today.
• Shows everything logged that day: food and bottles, naps/sleep, medications given, what's on the calendar, plus your most recent notes and moments.
• A birthday banner appears automatically on a child's actual birthday, and a "coming up this month" reminder shows in the weeks before.
• If a medicine dose is due right now, a reminder appears here so it doesn't get missed.

📅 Joint Calendar

One shared calendar — both parents add to it, both parents see everything on it.

• Tap ＋ Add an event, or tap any day on the grid, to see what's already scheduled and add something new.
• Use the ‹ › arrows next to a selected day to step through one day at a time, or the month arrows to jump a whole month.
• Events can repeat — daily, weekly, or custom days — and get their own color dot per parent, so whose event is whose is clear at a glance.
• Shift/duty days get a full colored fill on the grid (blue for one parent, magenta for the other) — see the legend under the calendar.
• Tap ✏️ Edit or 🗑️ on any event to change or remove it — for a repeating event, you can delete just one occurrence or the whole series.
• A child's birthday shows up automatically every year with its own 🎂 badge — nobody has to add it by hand.

🔁 Shifts & Nest Duty

Tell it your rotation once, and it fills your calendar automatically — built especially for shift workers with rotating or overnight schedules.

• Set your pattern: days on, days off, clock-in/clock-out times, and how far out to generate it.
• It builds directly into the shared calendar as color-coded blocks — everyone can see who's working (or on duty at the nest) and when.
• Add more than one pattern if your schedule isn't a single simple rotation, or remove one you no longer need.

🦊 Care

Food, sleep, medicine, and potty — the day-to-day details, logged so nothing gets lost between two homes.

• Food: log meals (what, how much) or switch to 🍼 Bottle to log ounces and formula-or-breast-milk instead — useful for infants not yet on solids.
• Sleep: log bedtime or naps, with a 1–5 star rating and optional notes.
• Medicine: add a medicine with dose and schedule, then log each dose as it's given — everyone sees who gave the last one and when the next is due.
• Potty: switch between potty-training mode (success/tried/accident) and diaper mode (wet/bowel movement/both) depending on where your child is at.
• If your family has more than one child, switch which child you're viewing right from the top of this screen.
• Allergies (set per child in Settings) show as a banner right on this screen as a reminder.
• Everything here can be edited or deleted after the fact — tap ✏️ or 🗑️ on any entry.

🎒 Handoff

A shared checklist for pickup, drop-off, or a nest changeover — so nothing gets left behind, without any scorekeeping.

• Add checklist items (favorite blanket, meds, homework) and check them off as they're packed.
• Tap 🚗 I'm on my way to give your co-parent a heads-up.
• House notes at the bottom is a running note for chores, restocking, or house rules that help the handoff go smoothly.

💛 Moments

The little things worth remembering — shared between both homes.

• Share a quick written moment, or attach a photo/video with 📸 Add photo/video.
• Tap any photo or video thumbnail to open it full-size (videos play right there with sound/controls).
• Mark something as a milestone (first steps, first word, and more) to add it to the milestone timeline.
• Mark something as a favorite to make it eligible for the occasional memory pop-up — a little "just because" surprise on an ordinary day.
• Edit or delete any moment with ✏️ / 🗑️.

🎈 Ideas

Free and low-cost things to do together — every family starts with a bank of about 35 ready-made ideas, no setup required.

• Tap 🎲 Surprise me when nobody can decide — it picks one at random.
• Tap the ＋ on any idea to schedule it: pick the date and time yourself, and it's added straight to the shared calendar.
• Add your own ideas, tagged by cost (free/low cost) and category (outdoors/home/creative).
• Edit or remove any idea, including the starter ones, at any time.

🫶 Village

The people who help your child feel loved and safe — brought into exactly the parts of the app that are relevant to them.

• Add anyone — grandparent, babysitter, teacher — with their name, relation, and contact info.
• If you have more than one child, you can assign a village member to just one of them instead of the whole family.
• Tap ✉️ Invite to join to generate a one-time code for them — you approve them before they can see anything, and choose exactly which tabs (calendar, care, moments, etc.) they get access to.
• Revoke access anytime, or edit/remove someone from the village entirely.

🧾 Shared Costs

A light running record for shared expenses — here if you need it, never the focus.

• Log a cost with an amount, category, and optional receipt photo.
• Set your agreed split (not everyone splits 50/50 — drag the slider to whatever's fair for your family).
• The balance at the top shows who owes who, measured against that agreed split, not a flat assumption.
• See totals by category, and a running list grouped by month.

💌 Notes

Quick, kind words for each other — not a chat log, not a record, just the small things worth saying.

• Write a short note and send it — it shows up for your co-parent right away.
• Edit or delete any note afterward.

⚙️ Settings

Everything about how your family and account are set up, in one place.

• Add, edit, or remove children — name, birthday, allergies, and their emoji.
• Update your name, username, and password (or reset a password for someone who's still logged in, if they've forgotten theirs).
• Share your invite code to bring in your co-parent.
• Switch between ☀️ Light, 🌙 Dark, or 📱 System appearance.
• Switch your arrangement between Two Nests and Nesting anytime.
• Turn features on or off for the whole family (Care, Moments, Ideas, Shared Costs, Notes, Shifts) — handy if your family just doesn't need one of them.
• The 💬 Feedback & bug reports section right here sends bugs and ideas straight to the developer — see Getting help below.

• From inside the app: Settings → 💬 Feedback & bug reports. Pick bug/idea/general, write what happened, and optionally leave your email for a reply.
• From the website: the feedback box on the homepage opens a pre-filled email.