Customize EchoMom Shortcuts
Give the iPhone or Android widget short labels and safe defaults so a single home-screen tap records the care you actually meant.
Product, care, and family perspective
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Before you start
Use this guide after deciding you want an EchoMom Shortcuts widget on your phone. A widget button can save a record immediately. Its label is the name you see; its defaults are details saved in advance. For example, a bottle button might already have an amount filled in. Check that the details match what actually happened before tapping it.
Open the widget editor, not Quick Actions
There are two different shortcut systems in EchoMom. Quick Actions live inside Quick log on Home and Log; you can choose and reorder them, but their names are fixed. Widget quick-log buttons belong to EchoMom Shortcuts on the phone home screen; these are the buttons with editable labels and defaults.
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Open Settings from the bottom navigation.
Tap Settings, the gear icon at the bottom-right. This opens the settings sections; choose the section named in the next instruction.
Settings. Settings opens the app, child, and notification options.
- Choose App and select Home-screen widget child.
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Find Widget quick-log buttons and tap Customize buttons.
Customize buttons opens this Widgets editor. Check the child and button labels in Live preview; use New preset to start a layout for your routine.
Live preview. This shows the layout you are preparing inside EchoMom, before adding the phone widget.
New preset. Start a named layout that you can customize and reuse.
Start with the smallest useful set
Choose a preset or add individual supported actions under On your widget. The limit is six, but you do not need to fill every slot. For a family focused on sleep, Sleep and Wake may be enough to make overnight handoffs and the Sleep time record much clearer.
- Add only events you can identify and record confidently with one tap.
- Drag the most common buttons into the easiest positions.
- Remove any button that causes hesitation or accidental logs.
Name the result, then check the defaults
Expand a button to edit Button label and the options supported by that action. A label should tell a half-awake caregiver exactly what the tap records, such as Morning bottle or Wet diaper. You can add the same action twice when different defaults are genuinely useful.
- Keep Button label brief and unambiguous.
- Review every prefilled amount, type, side, or other available option.
- Use separate buttons only when each one represents a repeatable event, not a guess.
Test one button while you are awake
The widget saves changes as you make them, and a widget tap logs immediately without opening EchoMom. Test a low-risk action, then open Log to verify the child, event type, time, and defaults. Correct or remove the entry if needed before trusting the setup overnight.
What to remember
- Only widget quick-log buttons have editable Button labels; in-app Quick Actions have fixed names.
- You can place up to six buttons and add the same supported action more than once with different defaults.
- Every tap records directly, so a trustworthy default matters more than a clever setup.
Care basics and sources
A saved dose is not an instruction to give it again. Check the medicine and directions each time, use the correct measuring device, and ask a pharmacist or clinician if unsure. Confirm what another caregiver has already given; a log may be incomplete. FDA: Read the Label.
Words in this guide
Hover over an underlined word, tap it, or use the Tab key for an explanation. Press Escape or tap outside to close it.
- nursing
- Breastfeeding. EchoMom's nursing timer records time and breast used; it does not measure milk intake.
- default
- A detail already filled in, such as a bottle amount. Check that it matches what actually happened before saving a record.
- widget
- A small panel on your phone's home screen, beside the app icons. It shows information or buttons without opening the full app.
- Quick Action
- The buttons in Quick log, such as Bottle, Diaper, Sleep, and Wake. Each records a kind of care.
- Sleep time
- EchoMom's sleep screen. It uses your saved sleep records to suggest when another sleep or wake-up might happen. Suggestions are estimates, not instructions for your baby.
- handoff
- When one person takes over caring for the child from another. Sharing recent feeds, sleeps, and other records helps them know what happened.
When typing is too much
Use your voice to update a care record.
Ask EchoMom to record what happened or find a saved entry. Check the details before relying on a record.
Open EchoMom
