How to keep track of repairs
Notebooks, notes apps, spreadsheets, camera rolls, and dedicated logs — what each one is good at, where each one fails, and how to pick.
Guides
Repair & Maintenance Guides
Practical writing about keeping records of the things you maintain: what to write down, where to keep it, and why the record is worth more than the effort it takes.
What should you include in a repair log?
A field-by-field checklist for a repair entry, and the two fields most people skip and later regret.
Why keeping repair history saves time
Six situations where a two-line entry written last year does the work of an afternoon of investigation.
Looking for the app itself?
FixLog is a maintenance and repair record app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Repair log app
How a repair gets recorded, and what each entry holds.
Maintenance log app
Recurring reminders, a calendar, and the record that follows.
Repair history
Reading back what happened the last time something failed.