How it works
From the first screen to the worst night.
Seven steps. None of them takes more than a few minutes, and it is already useful after the first two.
Step 1
Create your family
A Nido family is the shared space where all the care lives. You create it in a minute with your email. There is nothing to install.
- Whoever creates it administers it: they decide who joins and what each person can see.
- You can belong to more than one family (yours and your in-laws’) and switch between them.
- On iPhone, if you want medication reminders on your lock screen, add Nido to your Home Screen from Safari. It is still not a download or an app store; Settings walks you through the three taps.
Step 2
Add the people you care for
A baby, a child, an adult, an ageing parent. Each person gets their own space, and one person’s information never mixes with another’s.
- Nido changes what it shows you depending on who it is: nappies and feeds for a baby, medications and appointments for a grandmother.
- Each person’s time zone is stored with them, so “today” and “8 in the morning” mean the right thing.
Step 3
Organize the care
Medications with their times, appointments with who is going, tasks that repeat on their own, documents where you can find them, and the emergency information.
- A dose is not “done” because the hour passed: somebody logs it, and it records who gave it and when.
- The documents that matter (powers of attorney, directives, insurance) can sit in a passcode-protected vault.
Step 4
Invite the people who help
Siblings, your partner, a caregiver, the neighbour who sometimes does the school run. Each one joins with their own email.
- The invitation already says what that person will reach; it is not decided afterwards.
- You can change it or take it away at any time, and they stop seeing everything immediately.
Step 5
Decide who sees what
This is what makes Nido different. Access is not “the whole family sees everything”; it is per person cared for.
- The babysitter sees the children. Your grandmother does not appear on their screen: not her medications, not her notes, not her documents.
- Your brother sees your mother and nothing else. What is not his to see is not hidden behind a lock: it never reaches him.
- Reminders follow the same rule. Someone without access to a person does not get notified about them either.
Step 6
Stay coordinated
Reminders on the right person’s phone, a calendar everybody can see, and a way to tell the family something without opening five chats.
- Reminders for doses, refills, appointments and tasks.
- Quiet hours, so anything that is not urgent waits until morning.
- A care handoff passes the shift on with today in it: what was given, what is left, what changed.
Step 7
Keep the important information ready
Allergies, contacts, doctors and documents, on the screen, or as a PDF you can print and put on the fridge.
- You can share the card with a temporary link, and switch it off whenever you want.
- It is the screen that has to work in the worst minute, so it opens without looking for anything.