Our story
The record we wished we had
Our son was five when he read a restaurant menu for the first time, in Marrakesh. He worked his way down every dish and its description, chose a beef and prune bastilla, and looked up at us beaming. It was the moment all those hours of sounding out letters had been working towards, and he knew it.
Nobody marked it. There was no worksheet and no report, and if I hadn’t written it down that evening it would have left no trace at all. That small moment is, more or less, why LogRings exists.
A family that learns on the move
We’re Vikki and Jimmy Hart, and we home educate our two children as we travel. Our daughter left school partway through Year 2, and our son never started. Since leaving England we have learned in a campervan and in rented flats, in markets, museums and other people’s kitchens, from Morocco to Malaysia to Australia.
Taking that step meant taking on the question every home-educating parent knows well: are we doing enough? On a good week the answer is obvious. On the other weeks, when nothing looks like a lesson, it is very hard to see.
The skill underneath the subject
What we noticed, again and again, was that the thing being practised was rarely the thing on the label. Following a recipe is practice at reading a method, measuring and adapting; the cookies are just the vehicle. Learning a language for a month and then switching to another is not a month wasted, because the listening and the having-a-go carry straight across.
So I started keeping a different kind of record: what happened, and which skills and qualities it showed. Over time that notebook grew into a framework, built from years of watching real learning happen, and the framework grew into LogRings. Take a photo, add a sentence, and LogRings shows you what the moment reveals, so the weeks that don’t look like a school day can still be seen for what they are.
Who we are
Vikki Hart
Vikki trained as a pharmacist and spent eight years in the NHS, in hospitals and in primary care, before training in yoga therapy. She writes about learning, travel and healing on Substack, and the method behind LogRings began in her notebooks.
Jimmy Hart
Jimmy founded an Apple-specialist IT company at 21, ran it for eighteen years and sold it in 2025. Along the way he built software for the NHS, including a clinical data-capture app taken up by other NHS trusts. He leads the building of LogRings.
Before all this, we ran a co-working space together in Poundbury, Dorset. We know what it is to build something from a bare shell, and to look after the people who use it.
Where we’re going
We started with our own children, but learning doesn’t stop at any age, and neither does LogRings. A toddler’s tower of blocks, a teenager’s first Saturday job and a new skill picked up at work all deserve to count.
Exams are good at measuring what somebody knows, and we want LogRings to sit alongside them, recording the things they can’t. We plan for our framework to be studied independently, so that it stands up to scrutiny and can help shape how education recognises learning. And whatever LogRings becomes, the record stays with the family: private, and only ever seen by the people you choose.