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✍️ Writing a Note

Notes are a short series of screens — one question at a time, with a progress bar on top. Next stays off until a screen is complete, and every answer saves instantly, so closing the app never loses work.

The steps​

  1. Who and when — pick the patient (you'll see your assigned patients) and the visit date on the calendar. Notes can be for today or a past visit, up to a year back.

  2. What you worked on — pick the goal for the visit. Noted shows the goals that match the service you performed. Then mark how the goal is going: Progressing, Stagnant, or Regressing.

  3. How they were doing — tap a face for physical health and one for emotional health (Good / Fair / Poor). If the patient's plan tracks behaviors, you'll also answer whether there were any moments of lashing out, aggression, or otherwise creating a scene — and describe what happened if so.

  4. What happened — add an event for each activity of the visit: what you did, which assistance methods you used (verbal prompt, gesture, hand-over-hand, and so on), and any choices the patient made. Choices come in threes: what they chose plus the two other options offered — or no choices at all. Every note needs at least three events. The screen counts them for you and Next stays off until you get there. Keep each activity in its own event rather than folding the whole visit into one — and if you stop at or near the minimum, the app will ask if that was the whole visit, since longer shifts usually mean more events.

  5. Health & safety steps — tap the safety measures you took (constant supervision, safe street navigation, medication reminders…). Pick between one and three.

  6. Monthly education talk — whether you had the monthly talk about abuse, neglect, and rights this visit. The app knows the patient's history: if their last talk was recent it tells you (and answers "not this visit" for you); if a month has gone by without one, it flags that this visit needs it. There's also space for anything else worth noting.

  7. Review & submit — everything on one screen with a pencil next to each section for quick fixes. Submit note files it.

After submitting you land on the note itself, ready to have Noted write it.