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The drywall goes up on a Thursday and everything behind it is gone. The plumbing, the conduit runs, the blocking someone added at the last minute. It is all still there, but nobody can see it, and the person who will need to see it has not been hired yet.
A photograph taken on Wednesday is the whole difference. This is where it goes.
A log takes up to five photos, the area it happened in, the sub who was working, when it happened, and whatever you typed. A job site can be set to require a photo, so a log without one does not get filed.
The app does not know that a picture is a plumbing rough-in. It has no notion of trades at all. What it has is the area tag and the description, and between them they do the work: Building A, Level 2, Unit 204, and you wrote “waste line before rock”. That is enough to find it later. The photo is enough to read it.
Same before a pour. Shoot the rebar and the sleeves, tag the area, file it. The concrete does not care that you took the picture, but in eighteen months somebody will.
Areas are a tree, not a flat list, so a job site can run Building A, then Level 2, then Unit 204. Filter to Level 2 and you get everything nested under it, not only the logs tagged to the floor itself.
One thing worth knowing: the Logs list opens on open logs from the recent range, because that is what a foreman wants on a Monday morning. Set the status to All and the date range to all time and you are looking at the whole history of the job instead.
The gallery view is the one to reach for when you are hunting a wall. It puts the photos up as a grid, so you are scanning pictures instead of reading rows.
Filter down to whatever you mean to hand over, then Print Logs, and pick whether to sort by date, by company or by area. The sheet carries the entire filtered set rather than a page of it, with a thumbnail beside each log and the job site’s mark across the top. Print to PDF from there and you have a file to send. There is a CSV export as well, when what somebody wants is the data.
That is the piece that makes this an asset instead of a diary. An owner, a buyer, or the contractor who has to open that wall in 2035 gets a document showing what went in and when.
Nothing on our side deletes logs. There is no retention timer, no cleanup job quietly aging photographs out. They last as long as the job site does, which is the point of keeping them: a construction record is usually wanted years after the crew has moved on. Our privacy policy covers the detail.
The question “what is behind this wall” stops being a demolition question.