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Create your family and finish setup

In about thirty minutes: create the family, add your child, invite the other adults, set languages, schedule, first eight trays, and the print pack.

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By the end of this tutorial you will have a working family: a child with a date of birth, at least one other adult invited, a language mix, a weekday and weekend rhythm, eight trays on the shelf, and a print pack queued. Today will be ready to run tomorrow morning.

You need: an email address you can open on this device, your child's date of birth, and a rough idea of wake, nap, and bedtime.

1. Create the family#

  1. Open the app and choose Create your family.
  2. Pick your Language from the list of 19. This is the language of buttons and messages for you; each adult picks their own later.
  3. Type Your name and Email, then tap Create your family.

You are signed in immediately and land on Setup. A confirmation email arrives too; you can open it later, but you must confirm your email before you can invite other adults.

2. Family and child#

  1. Under Your family, type the Family name and check the Timezone. The list offers Kuala Lumpur, Malé, Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Dubai, Kolkata, and UTC, plus the zone detected from your device.
  2. Under Family languages, tick every language your family uses. Child names are collected in each one.
  3. Under Your child, type the Name in each language, set the Date of birth, and add a Photo if you like.
  4. Tap Save and continue.

The age band appears under the date of birth, for example "2y 1m old · ages 2-3". The band decides which activities and which language targets you see.

3. Adults#

Yearkeep works with just you, but the product pays off when a second adult logs.

  1. Under Add someone, choose Who they are (Parent / guardian, Partner, Grandparent, Relative, Friend, Helper, Other).
  2. Choose What they can do: Full access for a co-parent, Day-to-day for a grandparent, relative, friend, or helper who runs part of the day, Highlights for grandparents who only want to watch.
  3. For Full access you can type an Email and tap Send invite. For everyone else tap Create invite link and send the link by any message app.
  4. For anyone who wants a simpler phone, leave Simple phone ticked. It turns on bigger text, low-data images, and voice-to-text on their device.

Tap Next. You can come back to this in Settings › Adults.

4. Languages#

  1. Under Languages at home, tick the languages the child will hear: Dhivehi, English, Malay, Indonesian, Mandarin.
  2. Under Language mix, drag the sliders. They always add up to 100. The default is Dhivehi 50, English 35, Malay 15, which over-weights the language with no support outside the home. A warning appears if any planned language falls under 15 percent.
  3. Under Who speaks what, pick a language for each adult.
  4. Under Mandarin decision, choose Defer, Plan for 4, or Skip.

Tap Next. See Set the language plan for what each setting does.

5. Schedule#

  1. Set Wake, Nap, and Bed. Adjust times shifts the whole day around those anchors.
  2. Check the Weekday and Weekend tabs. The default weekday rhythm has 17 blocks, from Wake and care at 06:45 to Sleep at 20:00; core blocks are starred: Dhivehi book time, the outdoor block, the work cycle, English book time, free play, parent time, and bedtime books.
  3. Set an Owner for each block. Blocks without an owner fall back to you.

Tap Next. The template is saved as a version effective today. See Edit the schedule.

6. Materials#

  1. Under Already have, tick what you own from the list of common materials.
  2. Under Worth getting, tick anything you want on the wishlist. Each item shows a cost tier: L, M, or H.
  3. Read Your first 8 trays. Yearkeep picks eight invitations you can set out with what you own and puts them on the shelf board.

Tap Next.

7. Seed#

Tap Seed and continue once. It writes the Year 1 roadmap, starts the first project ("Water"), and creates a four-week onboarding checklist for each Day-to-day adult. Then tap Next.

8. Print pack#

Tap Generate all 6: the rhythm chart, the risk versus hazard poster, the language protocol card, the CROWD cards, the conflict six-step card, and the Plan-Do-Review board. Four of them render in the Day-to-day adult's language. Download each as it completes, or come back from Settings › Export.

Tap Finish → go to Today.

You are done when#

Today shows tomorrow's first block with an owner and a language, the shelf board shows eight trays, and at least one invite link has been sent.

Next#