The Family Log is the single most important habit Bloom encourages — a quiet, daily record of how family life actually played out. It takes about thirty seconds a day and is the difference between "I think we were at about 60/40 this year" and "here's the file."
Where to find it Open Bloom → tap **Family Log** in the main menu.
What you can record
Nightly care For every night, tap whichever parent the children slept with. That's it — one tap. Bloom uses the "midnight rule" (whoever has the children at midnight gets the night), which is how Services Australia counts care.
Care percentages, automatic As you log nights, Bloom tallies them and shows your rolling care percentage and care bracket (nil, regular, shared, equal, primary, above primary, sole). No spreadsheets, no maths.
Incidents and notes Anything worth remembering — a missed handover, a difficult conversation, a behaviour change, an injury, a refused visit. For each entry you can add: - Date and time (timestamped automatically) - Location - Witnesses - Photos - A plain, factual note
Communication keeping Save important messages or call summaries against the day they happened. Contemporaneous beats reconstructed every single time.
Why this matters
- Child support assessments use care percentages. Wrong percentage → wrong payment.
- Family Tax Benefit also uses care percentages — wrong inputs become a tax-time debt.
- Parenting disputes and court rely on documentary evidence. A note written the day of carries far more weight than one written months later.
- Your own memory. You'll stop carrying everything in your head.
How to use it well
- Log nightly, the same way you'd brush your teeth — 30 seconds before bed.
- Keep incident notes factual. No editorialising. "Refused handover at 5:42pm, no reason given" beats "He was being awful again."
- Add photos for anything physical — injuries, property, the state of returned belongings.
- Export when needed. Family Log entries export to PDF or CSV for lawyers, mediators or Services Australia.
Privacy
Your Family Log is private to your account. Bloom does not share it with the other parent, with Services Australia, or with anyone else unless you choose to export and send.
A note on this page
Features described here reflect current Bloom app functionality. Specifics, naming and layout may evolve as the app improves — always check the app itself for the most up-to-date experience.