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Originally Posted by Stu Jackson
How about a log book and a pen or pencil? If that's all you want to do, and an app is broken, you'll find paper doesn't break down too much. Assuming it doesn't rain inside your boat.   |
Paper log book is not searchable and if it gets wet it becomes illegible.
Not aware of any apps that are even partially useful.
We use evernote with a new entry for each month. We use key=value pairs for each entry seperated by the date. With keys like bilgepumpcount=1; enginestarthours=3456; etc. If you need a new key then just create it.
This system is simple and adaptable. You can dump it in a spreadsheet or use a script to take the entire log and search for things like bilgepump counts, espar run hours,
engine hours,
fuel consumption, part failures etc. Easy to see when
oil changes or
head maintenance is pending.
We dump each months log into the ships manual, as a seperate latex file, the ships manual then rebuilds each time an update occurs.
The whole shebang is backed up and distributed to all our devices in the cloud and onboard to our nas, even to git over HF and
pactor. We also print the log and
safety / mission critical
parts of the ships manual.
We get the benefit of a manual log with the searchability of an electronic log. Our log provenance is irrefutable as every change is a git commit.
We have 3 years of
logs and the time saved in planning
maintenance is certainly worth it. It takes no more effort to maintain than a manual log as its automated.
Cheap too. Less cost than
buying a fancy log notebook each year.
You could just use excel or notebook and dropbox to achieve the same benefits.
Cheap, simple and reliable.
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