Daily Logs
The Daily Logs tab is the field record for a project — a dated journal of what happened on site each day. It's built for construction and field work, where a defensible daily record of crew, conditions, and progress matters for billing, claims, and disputes.
What a daily log captures
Each log is tied to a date and the project, and can record:
- A summary of the day's work and internal notes
- Weather for the site — pulled automatically for the project location and date, and cached so it isn't re-fetched
- Photos and other attachments
- Template-driven custom fields — a construction template, for example, adds fields for personnel count, site supervisor, trades onsite, and equipment used
Logs are listed newest-first, each card showing the date, the weather, an attachment count, and a preview — expand one to see the full detail.
Smart capture
Daily logs are designed to be filled out fast from the field:
- Voice notes — record a spoken note and have it transcribed to text automatically (supports common audio formats).
- AI summary — generate a clean written summary from the day's notes, with tags and action items detected for you.
- Auto weather — conditions and temperature are fetched for you rather than typed.
These keep field reporting honest and low-effort, so logs actually get filed.
Filing a log
Click New Log to open the form. Pick the date, choose a template (or use your company default), then fill in the summary and the template's custom fields, and attach photos. Save it as a draft or submit it. If your company has set a default daily-log template, new logs start pre-shaped without you choosing one each time.
Daily-log templates
A daily-log template defines the shape of the form — so a construction crew and a field service technician each get the fields that matter to them. Behind each template is an industry and a set of custom fields (with a type and whether they're required) — this is what drives the custom fields a log presents, described above. The built-in templates also carry a checklist of that industry's routine daily items.
From the app you can:
- Create a template of your own, with a name, description, and feature toggles — whether to enable weather, voice transcription, and AI summary, and whether to require photos or a signature.
- Start from a system template — ianaiERP ships ready-made templates for industries like Construction, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Field Service, and Retail; duplicate one under a new name to pick up its full set of fields ready-made.
- Duplicate any existing template, yours or a system one, to branch a variant under a new name.
Set your company's go-to template as the default so it's applied to every new log automatically.