Showerthought: I swore the daily log app was a waste until a $9,400 back charge got tossed
Six years running my own fence crew and I always kept job notes in a spiral notebook in the truck. When a guy on my crew pushed me to try a phone app for daily logs, I figured it was just another way to lose my notes when the battery died. Then a builder in Amarillo tried to hit me with a $9,400 back charge for a fence line we finished 5 weeks late, claiming we never flagged the rocky ground. I pulled up 41 days of timestamped photos with GPS on each one, sent the whole log in one file, and the claim vanished in about 20 minutes. The part that got me is I had forgotten half those days even mattered, since nobody argues about the boring ones. So now I'm curious, does anyone here still run paper logs because the app side burned you? I want to hear the other side before I go all in.