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Showerthought: why do crews still type daily logs into a laptop at the end of the day?
I was on a 14,000 sq ft tilt-up in Tucson and watched a super spend 45 minutes retyping his paper notes into Procore at 5pm. Half the argument says paper is faster in the field and typing later is just the cost of doing it, but the other half says voice-to-text on the phone saves that hour daily. Which side are you on, and has anyone actually tracked how much time they lose retyping?
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barbarah198d ago
Why do we do this with everything, not just construction? Think about how many jobs still have people writing stuff on paper first and then typing it into a computer later, like nurses charting on paper before entering it in the system, or delivery drivers filling out forms after doing the actual work. There's this weird gap where the field tool and the office tool don't talk to each other, so the person in the middle becomes the bridge. I get why paper still wins out there, it doesn't die when it rains or when you've got gloves on, but that 45 minutes a day adds up to almost four hours a week of just copying your own work. Voice to text has gotten good enough that I don't see why more supers aren't at least trying it, even if they still keep the paper as backup. The real fix is getting the field and the office on the same page so nobody has to retype anything at all.
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