Getting started with napmath

If you are reading this, you probably already know roughly when your baby naps. You have been doing the mental math all day -- when they woke up, how long they have been awake, when to start the next nap. napmath puts that thinking on screen so you can stop holding it all in your head.

Here's how to get going.

Step 1: Set your bookends

When you first open napmath, you set two times: wake-up and bedtime. These are the anchors for your day. Pick what is roughly normal for your baby right now. You can change them anytime.

napmath takes those two numbers and builds a visual timeline with nap blocks placed in between.

Step 2: Drag things into shape

You'll see nap blocks already laid out across the day. Each block has a handle at the bottom edge. Drag it down for a longer nap, drag it up for a shorter one.

Here's the part that saves you from mental arithmetic: when you change one nap, everything else adjusts automatically. Wake windows shift. The next nap moves. Bedtime stays put. You make one decision and the rest of the day recalculates.

Two naps, three naps, four -- add or remove blocks to match where your baby is right now. Swipe left on any nap to remove it.

Step 3: Add events (or don't)

Got a feed to plan around? An appointment at 2? Tap to drop an event marker alongside your nap schedule. Events are reference points -- they do not move your naps around. Some parents pin everything. Others use napmath purely for naps. Your call.

Step 4: Start the day

Switch to Today mode and your plan becomes a live tracker. You'll see where you are, what's next, and a countdown of wake time remaining.

When things go sideways, adjust on the fly. Extend a nap that ran long. Shorten one that ended early. The rest of the day recalculates. The plan bends to reality, not the other way around.

A few things worth knowing

  • The home screen widget. See your next nap at a glance. Toggle sleep without opening the app.
  • Caregiver sync. Both caregivers see the same schedule, live. No more "did they nap?" texts.
  • Works offline. Everything saves locally first. No signal at the park, still works.

You already know what to do

napmath doesn't tell you how to schedule your baby's naps. It doesn't have opinions about wake windows or sleep training methods. It's a planning tool that does the arithmetic, shows you the day, and gets out of your way.

You know your baby. napmath writes it down.

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