Introduction

Tips & Suggestions

Quick Start Guide

Detailed Functionality

Introduction

It's often difficult to remember all the details of your child's life, particularly if you have more than one child. Need help?

If you’re ready to take control of your child's life, My Children's Journal can help you. Start to chronicle and track your child's life the way you like by tracking the information that suites you.

My Children's Journal makes it easy to perform tasks like tracking medical records, school and activity events, milestones, graphing patterns,emailing reports, including graphical attachments. By keeping track of your child's history, you will always be in a powerful position to achieve the best and most appropriate care for your child. My Children's Journal provides ample space to keep track of the following:

* Keep track of several children
* Keep track of several teachers, coaches and doctors
* Milestones and events
* Medical history
* Routine doctor visits for preventative health care
* Short-term illness records
* Complete medications records
* Complete immunization records
* Growth record and charts
* Lab Tests, Allergy, Procedures records
* Injury and hospitalization
* School Activities and Performances
* Activities such as sports or music lessons
* Photos
* Customize many features
* Export your data to a spread sheet for offline backup
* Document as much or as little information as you like

Designed by a mom to track all aspects of your child's life with a few screen taps.
Keep all your child's records and information at your fingertips with this easy-to-use journal.
Designed to keep you happy, organized and stress-free!

My Children's Journal

Start using My Children's Journal immediately and take control of your child's life. Once you’ve used it for a while, you will be able to customize numerous features to make it work the way you like, making it easier to take control, and improve the quality of you and your child's life. You can customize all the data, so you can track anything and everything.          

 Support for My Children's Journal includes a public forum for suggestions, questions and answers. We work very hard on making our products complete, easy to use and appealing. We always welcome any suggestion or ideas you might have to improve our products.

Tips and Suggestions

Please read the following Tips & Suggestions section. Your diary is very customizable. To unleash its power you should familiarize yourself with its full potential.

Lists

You can add your own "choices" to all lists. When adding events to your diary, several drop-down lists are shown. Add a choice to the list by typing in a new entry at the bottom of the list. You can also do this from the "Manage Choices" option from the main menu or from the "Preferences" option. All choices can be edited and deleted here also.

Look & Feel & Visual Indicators

All symbols that appear on your calendar can be changed. These indicators help you understand your data. They represent an event that occurred on a specific day. You can also change the theme color for your diary. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Columns

All columns that appear in your list view can be changed. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Backing Up Your Data

You can email yourself a report with all of your data. This will provide you with a backup of all of your data. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Reports

All reports can be emailed. The emailed report is sent in graphical format and in comma-delimited format so that it can be used in another program such as Excel spreadsheet. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Quick Start Guide

This section guides you through a simple My Children's Journal session.   You will navigate through the common functions to create and view your information.   For help on advanced features go to the Detailed Functionality section.

Recording an Event

Your child was just sent home from school with a fever, what do you do?

  Your data will be more accurate if you record the events in your journal as soon as possible. My Children's Journal allows for tracking of milestones, events, school and extra-curicular activities, medical events such as sickness or allergy shots, and many other aspects of your child's life all with just a few screen taps. Enter as little or as much data as you need. Create new items, new milestones, new school activities, new medications, mulitple children, doctors, teachers, coaches, etc. in your selectable lists.

Step 1

Highlight the date of the entry and press the add (+) button.

Step 2

Enter the data.  If you have more than one entry in a day, don't forget to enter time specific information.

Step 3

Finally, press the “Save” button.  If you do not save before exiting, you will be asked to confirm your action. 

Finding your Information

You have entered several days of data.  You want to see if your child's growth or recognize any patterns so that you can try and manage your child's life better.  My Children's Journal Reports will help you do this.  The report analysis will not be useful unless you have a few entries entered and your data is accurate.  For accuracy, remember to record your data as soon as you can.

Step 1

Navigate to the Reports menu.

Step 2

Select the “Growth Log” report.  This is an integral report in viewing the growth of your child. It lists your child's growth information for the given date range.  You can select the Monthly Growth chart to view this data by monthly averages. 

Step 3

There are several log and charts to choose from.  The log reports show you your daily entries over time. The charts show you the data in a graphical representation.

Detailed Functionality

Please note that functionality described here varies from system to system.

This section provides details of the My Children's Journal application.   If you have a specific question that is not answered in this section, please utilize the cellHigh Support to ask further questions or send your questions to Support.

The Menu

My Children's Journal menu is available by pressing the top left arrow by the My Children's Journal program name. 

My Children's Journal Menu

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Calendar View  &  List View

When you enter the application, the Calendar View is displayed.  From this view, you can add or edit information for the current day, by highlighting the date from the Calendar View and pressing the add or edit button. To delete an entry, highlight the date and press the delete button.  If you want to see more details, select the List View.  You can even change which fields that display in your list view from the Preferences option.

Calendar View

To customize the look & feel of the calendar, select the Preferences option from the menu

List View

To customize the fields that display in this list, select the Preferences option from the menu

  Adding

To add new information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View then press this add button. The following “Add” information screen is displayed.  Enter the information and then press “save”.

 Editing

To edit information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this edit button. Pressing this button takes the user to the “Edit” information screen.

Deleting

To delete information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this delete button.  You will be asked to confirm your action before it is deleted.

Reports

Reports are available by pressing the reports option from the top left arrow by the My Children's Journal program name.   After you make your report selection, you will enter the desired date range for your report. The following lists the reports available.

The Report Menu

Growth

The “Growth Chart” report lists a summary of your child's growth information for the given date range.   It can be viewed by child or for all children.        

Log Reports

The “Log” reports  lists your information for the given date range. 

Chart Reports

The "Chart" reports are useful tools that show you numerous statistics in a graphical view.    

 Preferences

Your diary is completely customizable.  You can set preferences for your diary, such as color theme, which fields to display and visual indicators.  Additionally, password protection, backup and login information is set in this scene.

There are four Preference sections. 

In the “General Settings” drawer you have access to the password protection, unit of measurements and date formats.

In the “Application Settings” drawer you can access the “Reset Data” function as well as managing your customizable drop down lists.

In the “Look & Feel” drawer you can access your color theme and what visual indicators or data appears on your calendar and lists.  

General Settings

Password Protection

Tap the “ON” button to enable password protection for your data.  If you enable password protection you will be prompted for the password.  There are no restrictions on password length or content.  Remember this password, as you will be prompted for this password each time you start your application.  To disable the password protection just press the “OFF” button.

Date Format

Select the correct date format for your region from the drop-down list. 

Application Settings

Manage Choices

The Manage Choices section allows you to add data to and edit your customizable drop-down lists.  All lists that appear in your diary can be added to through this option.  For instance, if you have a particular “Performance Style” that does not appear in the list, you can add it here.  When you add information to your diary, you can also at that time add new entries to these lists.  These entries can be edited and deleted here also.

Reset All Data

If you want to erase all of your data and start new, you can do this by pressing the “Reset All Data” button.  Since there is no way to reverse this process, you will be asked to confirm if you really want to do this.  NOTE: you can not undo this action, so be careful and make sure that you do not want the data that is currently in your diary.

Manage Choice List

Adding symptoms to the Symptoms List.  To Add an item, you tap the ‘+’.  To Change an item, you tap it; To Delete an item, you ‘swipe’ it and the Delete appears (following figure)

Deleting an Item

Deleting a symptom from the Symptoms List

Look & Feel

Theme

Customize your diary look by choosing from one of the six color themes.

Display Emoticon

You have the ability to select an emoticon that represents an overall feeling about each entry in your diary.  These emoticons appear on your calendar and list views.  If you don’t want them to display, uncheck the display emoticon checkbox.

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.

Text Indicators

The text that displays on your calendar can be turned on or off here.

List View Fields

The information that displays on the List View, can be changed from here.

Theme

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from six color themes.

Text Indicators

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can turn off the display of the text that displays on your calendar.  “Text Indicator 1” displays the last 'Free Chlorine' of that day.  “Text Indicator 2” displays the last pH of that day.

Visual Indicators

You can customize 3 visual indicators that display in your diary

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.  You can display up to 3 visual indicators on your diary.

For each visual indicator, you select which icon to display if the condition specified is true.  To specify the event, you must select the field, operator and value of the event.   In the example to the left, the “Pain” icon will display if the “Symptom” field equals any value other than “Normal”.  This indicates that you have abnormal symptoms on that day, so the “Pain” icon appears.

Visual Indicators:  Icon List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from several visual indicators

Visual Indicators: Field List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can select the field that will trigger the visual icon to display on your calendar