Arrange Quick Actions for Faster Logging
Put the fixed care actions you use most at the front of EchoMom's Quick log, and learn where to go when you actually want custom widget labels.
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Before you start
Quick log is the group of care buttons on Home and Log inside EchoMom. A Quick Action is one of those buttons, such as Bottle or Diaper. Rearranging them is optional: do it when you repeatedly have to search for a button you use. You can keep the starting layout while you learn the app.
Know which kind of shortcut you are changing
EchoMom has two shortcut systems with different jobs. Quick log appears inside EchoMom on Home and Log. Its Quick Actions use fixed names and behavior. EchoMom Shortcuts is the iPhone and Android home-screen widget; its buttons can be renamed and given defaults.
- Use Quick Actions when you want to rearrange the care buttons inside EchoMom.
- Use Settings > App > Widget quick-log buttons when you want to customize the phone's home-screen widget.
- Do not look for a label editor in Quick Actions. There is not one.
Open the Quick Actions arranger
Your most-used actions should be visible before you are fully awake. EchoMom lets you keep up to nine in Quick log and leaves the rest under More.
After signing in, tap Home, the house icon at the bottom-left. This opens the selected child’s dashboard.
Home. Home contains Quick log and the Today, Milestones, Sleep, and Stats sections.
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On Home or Log, expand Quick log if it is hidden.
Tap the child’s name at the top-left if you need to choose whose care you are recording. Tap Quick log just below the header to show the care buttons.
Child selector. Tap the name to choose whose care you are recording.
Quick log. An upward arrow means the buttons are open. Tap here to show or hide them.
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Long-press any Quick Action, or tap More and then Reorder quick actions.
On iPhone, Edit above the buttons opens the Quick Actions arranger. Long-pressing an action or choosing More → Reorder quick actions also opens it.
Edit. Choose and reorder the fixed care actions shown inside the app.
- On the Quick actions screen, drag items between On your home screen and More actions.
- Drag the most common action toward the first position, then tap Save.
Choose actions for the care you are doing now
For early newborn nights, Nursing, Bottle, Sleep, and Diaper are often the highest-value actions because they answer the next handoff questions. As your child grows, Solids, Tummy time, Medicine, Playtime, or other actions may become more useful.
- Keep the four or five actions you use half-asleep near the front.
- Move occasional actions under More; they are still available.
- Review the order after a feeding change, nap transition, or new caregiver starts.
Use Quick log to protect the sleep record
Put Sleep near the front if you want useful sleep estimates. Tap it when sleep starts and tap End sleep when the child wakes. A missed end time can make the night look much longer than it was, so correct it in Log when needed.
What to remember
- Quick Actions are EchoMom's fixed care types, such as Sleep, Nursing, Bottle, and Diaper. You cannot rename them.
- You can choose which actions appear in Quick log and drag them into a better order.
- Custom labels and per-button defaults belong to Widget quick-log buttons in Settings, not Quick Actions.
Words in this guide
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- 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.
- nap transition
- The gradual change from more daytime naps to fewer as a child's sleep pattern changes. One missed nap does not establish a new routine.
- 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.
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