A record of every day on site, written where the work happened.

One log per day per job. The date starts at today. The rest is short on purpose, because the person filling it in is standing in the mud at the end of a long day.

Weather has no default. You pick it. A log that says “sunny” because nobody changed the dropdown is a dated record saying the weather was fine, and weather is the field a delay claim rests on. Crew count can be left blank.

• Weather: sunny, partly cloudy, overcast, rain, snow or freezing
• High temperature, in °C
• Crew count
• Trades on site: concrete, framing, roofing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, drywall, painting, finish carpentry, landscaping, other
• Notes, up to a few pages if the day needs it
• A safety box, covered below

Basements, parkades, rural lots and half-framed steel buildings have no signal. When the phone is offline, the log saves on the phone and a band across the top says how many are waiting. When the connection comes back, they send themselves.

If the server refuses one, it stays on the phone, marked in red with a Try again button. It is not thrown away. A second tap on Save does not queue the same log twice.

Photos go up from the phone once it has a bar again: write the log where you stand, and add the pictures to it when it has synced.

Photos attach to the log they were taken for, so six months later you find the picture of the footing by finding the day, not by scrolling a group chat. A calendar on the job shows which days have a log and which do not.

Every photo starts hidden from your client. The office decides which ones show up in the client portal, one at a time. Field users can add photos but cannot publish them to the client, so a picture of a mess does not reach the homeowner by accident.

Ticking Safety Incident makes a description required, and emails the project managers on the job so they hear about it the same day, not at the Monday meeting.

If someone is hurt, your province’s occupational health and safety rules and your board’s reporting rules decide what you must report, to whom and how fast. Report there first. The daily log is the dated site record that sits beside that report.