Bowerstead

Bowerstead 1.1 is a new version of the whole app, on your phone and on the web, with a new look throughout. A planner made for your phone. Switch between Day, Week, and Month, and swipe from one day to the next. Each subject has its own color. On a break or a day off, each lesson comes up on its subject’s next day. You can now change a block’s time without moving it to another day, and when you add a subject to a single day, Bowerstead offers to make it weekly. Every tick says what it did. When you tick a lesson, Bowerstead says which lesson went on the record and which one is next. Home now shows the next school day under today, so you know what to have ready. If yesterday’s blocks have no tick, Home offers to record them or let them go, in one tap. Scan a contents page. In Curriculum, take a photo of a book’s contents page, or choose a photo or a PDF. Bowerstead lists the lessons it finds, you check the list, and they are added in one tap. Your usual week, in more detail. In Settings, under Weekly rhythm, each subject can have its days, and a usual time for each day when the planner is on a clock. A change can start on any date you choose, and days already lived keep theirs. Hours, if you keep them. Home asks once whether you keep hours as well as days. If you do, give each subject a usual length once, and each tick counts it. If not, choose Just days. Records puts each child on one page: school days, hours if you keep them, grades by subject, and a calendar of the days. It can now make an Attendance log and a Portfolio too, and its PDFs count days and hours just as the page does. A note can now be a tick list, and a note set for a day shows on Home when its day comes. Meet Bower, a new AI helper. Tap Bower’s face at the top of any screen and ask how something in Bowerstead works. Before your first question, and before your first scan, Bowerstead says what it sends and where it goes, and asks for your yes. A few things have moved. The tabs are now Home, Planner, Capture, Curriculum, and More. Notes, Moments, Records, and Settings are under More. Your children are in Settings, and so are your school year and its breaks, which used to be in the planner’s Year view. Bowerstead now uses passwords. The first time you open 1.1, you choose one. When you first open 1.1, Bower offers a short tour of what is new. For a walk through your week with Bower, choose “Take the quick tour” in Settings, under Help and contact.