About

Daily Doodle is one email, every morning at 6am your time. It has three things: a printable coloring page, one true fun fact, and a real animal photo. That's it.

I made it because the iPad was winning at our breakfast table. I wanted something that ended in a printer, not in scroll. Free, kid-safe, and never trying to keep your kid on a screen.

How it's made

Each issue is produced by an automated pipeline the night before it goes out. I review every issue before send. Three pieces:

• The doodle. Generated by OpenAI's gpt-image-1 model from a fixed system prompt that enforces black-and-white, closed shapes, friendly forms, and no scary content. Every image is then run through a Claude vision classifier to confirm kid-safety before any kid sees it.
• The fact. Written by Claude Sonnet against a prompt that requires two reputable sources (museums, universities, peer-reviewed work — never Wikipedia alone). A separate classifier double-checks for kid-safety and factual confidence.
• The critter. A real photograph licensed from Unsplash, Pexels, or iNaturalist (CC-BY/CC0). We don't AI-generate animals. Every photo is attributed, and the license log is public.

Provenance for every asset — model, prompt, sources, license, safety scores — is written to a public log. If you ever want to verify a fact or photo, the receipts are in the archive.

What we promise

• The email arrives at 6am your local time, every day.
• No ads aimed at kids. Ever.
• We do not collect any data on your kid. Privacy policy.
• One-click unsubscribe is at the bottom of every email.
• If a fact is wrong, reply to the email. A real human (me) will fix it and write you back.

— Mat, Hawaiʻi