A New Zealand woman sits on her couch smiling at her phone with quiet relief, a cup of tea beside her - representing a carer who has just logged an entry in MyLog and looking at a PDF SUmmary - feels on top of her whānau's care records.

Your First 14 Days on MyLog. What to Do, Day by Day

ByAjit Kumar Nair

You have started your free trial. Good. You have 14 days to decide if MyLog is right for your whānau, and more importantly, 14 days to build a habit that will make the rest of your care journey easier.

Here is a simple, realistic approach to your first two weeks.

Days 1 and 2: Set up, do not overthink it

  • Your only job in the first two days is to set up your account and add one entry.
  • Not a perfect entry. Not a comprehensive entry. Just one – whatever happened today that felt worth noting. A behaviour you observed. A conversation that happened with a coordinator.
  • Add your support workers and any family members who contribute to care. This takes five minutes. Once they are in the system, they can start adding entries from the comfort of their homes.
  • If you are not sure what to write, start with: what time did care start, brief notes on what happened today, and how did it end. That is enough.

Days 3 to 7: Build the rhythm

  • One entry per day. That is the target for week one.
  • It does not need to be long. Two or three sentences is fine. The goal is not comprehensiveness, it is consistency. A brief daily entry is worth far more than a detailed weekly summary, because it captures things in real time before they fade.
  • Some families find it easiest to log at the same point each day,  at the end of a support worker’s shift, after dinner, or at bedtime. Find the moment that works for your routine and attach the habit there.
  • By day seven, you should have at least five entries. Look back at them. You will already start to see patterns you had not consciously noticed.

Days 8 to 11: Add your team

  • If you have not already, this is the week to bring in support workers who can start logging entries for you.
  • Send them the invitation from your dashboard. Walk them through what you want them to log the basics are enough: mood, behaviour, activities, anything unusual. Let them know their entries are visible to you.
  • Most support workers respond well to this. It gives their work visibility and creates a shared record that protects them as much as it protects your whānau member.
  • By day ten, you should have a diary that reflects not just your observations but the full picture of who is involved in care and what they are seeing.

Days 12 to 14: Generate your first PDF

  • Before your trial ends, generate a PDF report.
  • Select all entries from day one to today. Export. Open the document.
  • This is the moment most families understand what MyLog is actually for. You will see two weeks of dated, multi-contributor observations in a single coherent document. You will see patterns. You will see a record that would take you hours to reconstruct from memory if you had to write it yourself.
  • That document scaled up to three months, six months, a year, is what changes the conversation in a NASC meeting.
  • If it resonates, converting to a paid plan is straightforward. Plans start from $15 per month, and your entries carry over seamlessly.

One final thought
The families who get the most from MyLog are not the ones who use it perfectly. They are the ones who use it consistently – a few lines a day, every day, over time.

Start small. Keep going. The record builds itself.

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