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Everyone knowing what they need to know

Care falls apart in the gaps — the thing the morning caregiver noticed and the evening one never heard, the question the family asks three times because nobody wrote the answer down. Binda's communication tools exist to close those gaps without turning anyone's phone into a firehose.

Notes & observations

A note is how a caregiver says what happened. It can be a sentence. It can also be tagged with what it was about, which is what turns a pile of notes into something you can actually read a pattern out of.

Notes are threaded too, so a manager's question and the caregiver's answer stay attached to the thing they were about.

Write a note — tag what it was about
What did you notice?
How was the day overall?
🙂James Murray· this morning

🙂Calm and engaged this morning. Sat with the cat by the window for a while.

🍽️Finished her oatmeal, half a banana, and tea. Good appetite today.

One note can carry several observations, because that is how one afternoon actually goes.

Photos on notes

Some things are far easier to show than to describe — a rash, a bruise, a meal that actually got eaten, a wound that is or isn't healing. Caregivers can attach photos to a note; they are downscaled on the way up, stored against the circle, and counted against its storage so nobody is surprised by a bill.

Photos are private to the care team by default. Sharing one with the family is a deliberate act by someone with the authority to do it — not a side effect of writing a note.

Care falls apart in the gaps — the thing the morning caregiver noticed and the evening one never heard.

Why this exists

AI summaries

Nobody wants to read forty notes before a doctor's appointment. Binda reads them for you.

What a summary actually reads like
From 14 notes · 21–27 August

A steady week overall. Eleanor was calm and engaged most mornings, and ate well on five of the seven days — appetite dipped on Tuesday and Wednesday, both days she had slept badly.

Sleep is the thing that moved. Two restless nights mid-week, up around 4am on both, settling after warm milk. The nights either side were unbroken.

One episode of afternoon confusion on Thursday, about the time of year. It resolved with gentle reorientation and did not recur.

A summary, not a diagnosis — and built only from the notes that reader is allowed to see.

Notes access has a middle setting for exactly this — summary only — which shows a person the digest without the individual notes behind it. That is how you give a doctor the shape of a month without handing over every private observation a caregiver made.

The Today card

Home opens on what is happening now: today's medications and where they stand, who is on shift, what tasks are outstanding, what needs attention. Care managers and caregivers can customise which cards appear and in what order, per circle, so the top of the screen is the thing that person actually opens the app for.

Alerts, and control over them

Alerts appear in the app and on the phone, and every one of them is tappable through to the thing it is about — a “your trial ends in two days” that leads nowhere is worse than no alert at all.

New appointments

When a visit is scheduled for the care recipient.

Appointment requests

When a caregiver asks for a visit to be scheduled.

Medication changes

When a medication or its schedule changes.

Concerning updates

When a caregiver flags a day as concerning.

Note replies

When someone replies to a note you're part of.

New agreements

When an agreement needs your acknowledgement.

Each person turns these on and off for themselves in alert settings, and the list they see is filtered to their role — a family member is never offered a toggle for something only a caregiver would receive.

The family feed

Your brother across the country loves your father and does not want to be a project manager. The family feed is for him: warm, plain-language updates — “Dad had a calm afternoon and ate all of his lunch” — with hearts and comments, and none of the clinical detail.

It is a separate surface from the care team's notes on purpose. Clinical observations stay in the access-controlled area; what reaches the family is what someone chose to send them.

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