🕊️ The FamilyStork guide

Go to familystork.com and tap the start button: you'll enter your child's name first, then create your account (takes under a minute). You can start a record for anyone in the family, a newborn, a child, or yourself. Each person gets their own page with three tabs: Today (their daily message, medications, notes), Records (uploads, their email address, the health timeline), and About (meals, photo album, memories). The ✨ Recommended card on Today shows your next best steps with a progress bar. Follow it and you're fully set up in minutes.

Every time you open the page, the record greets you with a daily briefing in your child's own voice: which meds are due or were given (with times), anything overdue, the story of recent days from your notes, and thanks for sweet moments shared. Tap Talk to [name] to chat. Ask "how are you doing health-wise?", "explain your last blood work", or "when's your next dose?" Every answer is grounded in the real record with dates cited; the AI never diagnoses and never gives medical advice. Health worries get routed to your doctor, and true emergencies to 911 or the ER. Tap 🔊 on any reply (or the "Hear replies" toggle) to hear it out loud.

Upload any medical document on the Records tab: PDFs, phone photos of paper, lab reports, bills, prescriptions, after-visit summaries. The AI reads every page and files it into a lifelong timeline: visits, diagnoses, medications, vaccines with due dates (DTaP, MMR, Tdap, flu and the rest), lab values with HIGH/LOW flags, surgeries, allergies, weights. The original document is always kept next to what the AI extracted, and you can edit or delete any entry. Your corrections are never overwritten. Extraction usually takes 30 to 60 seconds.

Every person has a private email address (the 📬 card at the top of Records). Give it to your pediatrician's office, clinic, or specialist. They don't need an account or an app, they just email records like they always do. Senders on your care team file straight into the record; anyone else lands in "📥 Waiting for your OK," where you tap "Add to record" or "not for the record." Use Copy or Share on the card to text it to the front desk.

The medications card on Today shows every current med with dose, schedule, and instructions (📌 "with food", "no dairy", add them via edit). Log a dose with one tap on ✓ Give now; the whole family sees "last given today at 8:15 AM" so nobody double-doses. If your child refuses a dose, tap refused? and pick a reason tag; refusals matter to your doctor. Add a med by typing one line ("Amoxicillin 250 mg twice daily", it parses itself) or 📸 snap the bottle and the AI reads the label. Schedules like "every 12 hours" power due-time alerts: the row highlights, a banner appears, and reminders go out. Fix a mis-logged dose time with ✎ on its timeline entry; change the schedule anytime with edit; stop moves a med to history.

Tap "Text ME when doses are due" on the medications card to get an SMS the moment a dose is due. It's a personal choice; every family member opts in or out for themselves (the 💊 chips on the Care team page show who gets them). "Also alert this device" adds push notifications (on iPhone: Add to Home Screen first, via the Share button). Beyond doses, the care team gets updates in your child's own voice whenever something happens: records emailed in, notes and photos posted, meds changed, doses refused. "Hi, it's me Emma!…" The person who did the thing never gets notified about their own action.

The note box sits right under the daily greeting. Just type. Times ("at 9:40pm") and weights ("12.5 kg") are picked out automatically, and meds, diagnoses, or symptoms you mention get filed into the structured record by the AI (so they show on the emergency card). Add a 📷 picture to turn a note into a moment: the photo lands in the album and on the timeline, and your child's record writes its own sweet reaction ("Chris stayed right beside me all night…") which becomes the notification the family receives. Choose Share: whole care team or just the record per note. Edit any note later with ✎.

Red and amber banners appear at the top of Today when something needs attention: a temperature of 100.4°F or higher noted in the last 3 days (104°F or higher goes red: contact your doctor, or call 911 or go to the ER now), a refused dose, or a dose past due. When a newer normal temperature is logged, the fever banner resolves itself into a calm green pill. Clearing an alert with ✕ is logged to the record ("Alert cleared by…") so your doctor sees the history. Nothing disappears silently.

Emergency card (red button): one revocable link any ER team reads in 30 seconds: current meds with instructions, allergies front and center, known conditions, latest labs, vaccine status. Print it or text it; regenerate to kill an old link. Caregiver card (🧡): a limited handoff share for the babysitter, grandparent, or school: meals, med schedule, quirks, your instructions, and what to do in an emergency, without the full medical history. Insurance packet (📑): one link with the complete timeline plus every original document, downloadable by your health insurer. It's built for out-of-network claims, superbills, and records requests. Link your insurer (UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna, and more) to open their member portal with your member ID at hand.

Invite family with one link from the Care team page. They can add records, notes, and chat. Invite your doctor's office with a view-and-upload role: they see everything, can add records, but can't change or delete anything. Owners can promote family to 👑 co-owner for full equal authority. Everyone answers "who are you to [name]?" (mom, dad, grandma, caregiver) so the record knows the family by name and says so in messages and reactions. Every share link (invites, emergency, caregiver, insurance) is revocable at any time.

On the About tab: log what your child eats and any food rules (it flows to the caregiver card, the emergency card, and the AI). The album holds a lifetime of photos with their dates, separate from medical documents (album photos are never sent to the AI and never count against limits), and every photo also appears on the timeline. The memories list holds the little truths you teach the record ("hates thunderstorms", "sleeps with the blue bear") so it knows your child, not just their chart.

The record belongs to the person it's about. A parent keeps a child's record for them, and can hand it over when they're grown: export and hand-down are rights here, not features. Nothing is public unless you create a share link, and every link can be revoked. Every record access is logged. Doctors on the care team can't delete or alter anything; strangers emailing the records address wait for your approval. FamilyStork is free during early access (with generous monthly AI allowances); paid plans are coming and early members get founding pricing. Questions the manual doesn't answer? Ask the AI helper right on this page.