Planned Features
This list shows all features planned for implementation in logbook app. Many thanks to all contributors. The order is not necessarily the order of implementation! Last update: 14.10.2020| ID | Feature | Beschreibung | Status |
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| WART | Maintenance | 1. Providing an option to add (for example) "oil change" to a record as "maintenance information". And provide an easy way to show/filter all records with such "maintenance information" in it. This gives an overview of when which maintenance happened.
+ 2. And saving part numbers. There is nothing worse than having to relocate part numbers for filters or whatever. I think this could be a tab all on its own. Just like the maneuvers add in oil change on which engine, changed out batteries in smoke detectors, checked fire extinguishers... + 3. Reminder for regular maintenance work like changing oil filter + 4. In the tools section to be able to put the deadlines of use on the safety equipments: extinguishers, rockets, vests, etc ... and to have alerts on the dates + 5. Include a hierarchical Job list in the tools to capture jobss to do on the boat. Easy export to Excel / CSV would be great. The ability to add Vessel name and category of work such as Engine Sails Standing Rig Running Rig Hull Interior Electrics Instruments. Then a simple checklist similar to the Trello List app would be a great feature. | open |
| CLOU | Clouds | Nett to prozentual cloud coverage also the specific cloud type. Cirrus, Cirrocumulus, Cirrostratus, Cumulunimbus, Altocumulus, Altostratus, Stratocumulus, Nimbostratus, Stratus, Cumulus. Including a simple cheat sheet/pictures | Open |
| PPCL | Checklist | In the tools section having a pre and post trip inspection checklist. That you can reset for each of your trips. Next to packing list and safety list, add also a shopping list | Open |
| CREW | Crew | Crew Management
One entry per crew member, and in each entry you can see which crew member is performing which role (helmsman, navigator, etc.). This can then be exported per person. e.g. Person X had done Y hours of navigation over Z nautical miles. This also allows the crew to be changed in a log book.
Crew Metadaten Integrate the entries usually requested by the harbor master (date of birth, place of birth, passport number etc.) with this crew list and also in the PDF printout. The crew list should also be exportable as a single document e.g. for the harbor master or charter company. The following metadata for each crew member:
| Open |
| NDBT | NMEA water depth | Support for DBT next to DPT sentences | open |
| RPMX | NMEA engine RPM | Add support for engine RPM in NMEA to automaticall switch between sailing and engine | open |
| EHRS | NMEA Engine hours | Process Engine hours in XDR NMEA sentences (see red bordered part) $YDXDR,C,42.0,C,Engine#0,U,14.1,V,Alternator#0,G,2215.70,,EngineHours#0*50 | open |
| FUEL | Fuel / E-engine | Show fuel in percentage OR liter/gallons/etc
+ Fuel Usage calculation. Lt/hour set in the settings and then tank reduces over time while engines running. + E-engine support like battery capacity etc. | open |
| BUOY | Buoy | Buoy as own dedicated status next to moored and anchorage | Open |
| SRCH | Search function | Add a search facility. I would like to use the logbook to record when the engines, water maker and generator were serviced, but worry I will never find the entries again! | open |
| TIDE | Tides | Add a tool to show tides for the current area. | Open |
| SAIL | Sail | Option to define the sails on the boat, so each specific record can have detailed information about the sail setup. E.g.: Genoa (100 1 reef 2 reef 3 reef furled) staysail (same settings as Genoa ) asymmetrical (up or down) reacher (up or down) mainsail (same as Genoa). The status of the sails should follow through records until changed. One should be able to change via Apple Watch. | open |
| PDF1 | Export with filter | Be able to export into PDF logs between two dates, and not the whole logbook | open |
| IPLI | Daily chores adjustable | Make daily chores adjustable | open |
| INFQ | Summary | Add a summary over all logbooks instead of just one | open |
| PDFX | Map in PDF when staying in harbor
Do not export a map for days which are completely in harbor / same location without moving
Confirmation of nautical miles Defined export format which can be used especially for confirmation of nautical miles PDF Free text Additoinal PDF layout to have comments and pictures next to the record instead of an extra page PDF: Pictures Option to attach as many images as you like at the end of the logbook PDF image quality Option to define image quality/compression to get smaller file sizes with many images in PDF PDF Export Option to exclude images from PDF export to reduce file size PDF Export It should be possible to export the PDF also without internet, even if maps are not embedded in this case. PDF page 2 A optional legend for weather symbols etc. on page 2 of the | open | |
| IHLM | Postion unit | Individual location formats. e.g. dd° mm sss instead of dd° mm.mmm | open |
| IVCX | Languages | The default language is the one chosen in IOS, however it is possible to override this with english language but not with the others (German, French, Spanish, etc.) This should be also possible | open |
| IQPN | iPad Split View | when you change the status and a new log entry is created that entry should always come up in the detail panel. | open |
| IVKR | New state | What about two more status options (for motor and sail): A) Adrift (under way but not making way, no engine, no sail, not moored, not anchored, not aground ;) I do this a lot. Heading out in the open gulf for some miles, switch off the engine and relax in the sun while being “Adrift”. Fisherman do it as well. B) Aground / Beached “Aground“ to meet the ColRegs and for a bit of fun. “Beaching” is popular with power boaters. | open |
| IWGV | Logbook change | Some users have the demand to switch between logbook regularly (e.g. daily). Make it possible to see easily which logbook is selected and to switch them without need to go to the app settings. | open |
| IEIC | Delete change protected logbooks | Right now it's not possible to delete or remove change protected logbooks. The intention of write protected logbooks is to avoid changes to the entries, but it should be possible to decide to delete an entire logbook for example a test logbook. | open |
| WEAT | Wind | Perhaps it would make sense to divide the weather area into actual weather and weather forecast? It would also be nice if AWA (Apparent Wind Angel) and TWA (True Wind Angel) and the wind strength at the respective time can be entered in the logbook. Maybe something similar to the KĂśG or FĂśG menu. | open |
| IRIF | Apple Watch | It would be really great to be able to configure the companion app on the watch to show data you might like? Eg I would probably get rid of the temp (as it’s not really useful and I don’t have the sensors on the boat anyway) and replace it with NMEA depth, which would be amazing while anchoring as I. | open |
| IBBJ | Statistics movement distance moored | Hours moored is largely irrelevant to most people as it’s usually when the boat is on its home birth. Ideas: Have a moored and home state and/or have the ability to toggle moored or home on and off in the stats.... Reason being that for most boaters the moored is going to be a huge number compared to the others which makes the graphs sort of pointless as you only see moored as 99% of the donut. | open |
| IHVF | Rezension AppStore | ||
| ISFO | Wind history | Graphical chart of wind history during the day | open |
| ISAJ | Additional fields in Export | Add the following data, at least in CSV export and ideally in PDF report : Apparent Wind Speed (AWS), Apparent Wind Angle (AWA), Speed Through Water (STW?), Course Through Water (CTW?) NB: Speed Over Water is important when combined with True Wind Speed to build the polar data of the sailboat or to compare with polar reference data. | open |
| IZNH | Apple Pencil | Support for Apple Pencil in a record. | open |
| IHIK | Photo of ship | Possibility to add a picture of your ship to the front-page of the exported PDF | open |
| IBMU | Overview in statistics | there is a big white field just about every date. There you could offer further information, such as Destination port, total distance of the day. So you can see immediately when the trip to WarnemĂĽnde was and click again to get details. That would probably be easy to implement and very useful for owners. | open |
| AVST | End of voyage stats | End of voyage stats example: 0-3 hr AV STW AV SOG AV VMG %sail. AV windspeed AV TWA 3-6 hr 6-9hr Also percent time by types of sails with AV STW and AV SOG Histogram by wind angle and wind speed | open |
| AREC | Auto records | Currently you can create automatic entries according to distance or time, but not both at the same time (whichever comes first). | open |
| IHLP | Picture mapper improvements | 1. Multiple pictures per record. 2. Map multiple pictures to one record | open |
| IXBB | Moon | Add moonrise/set | open |
| IWGK | Supplementary live tracking | When losing internet connection and connecting back to internet later, supplementary upload the track if the Live Ttracking feature was used to share location with friends | open |
| IYEW | Offline maps | Possibility to make a area of maps offline available | open |
| IDMD | Speed filter | Wehn the state is anchor or moored, it should be not possible to log a record that includes a little amount of speed (e.g 0.1 kts). Filter all speed less than 0.5 kts if state is anchored or moored. | open |
| INVE | Quickmaneuver | When editing the frree text field (notes) of a record, make the user defined quick maneuvers availabel to chose one | open |
| IWBC | Logic checks | Add tool to make some plausibility checks to a logbook and to be able to identify records with obviously wrong data | open |
| IKLU | Reset | Possibility to reset all settings to default as after clean install. | open |
| IIVK | Link to Anchor records | Add direct link in statistics to records that obviously recorded some travel despite they are in status anchor or moored | open |
| IHGX | Cruising kitty | Cruising kitty | open |
| IODL | Free POIs | Possibility to add dead reckoning positions to the map. | open |
| IBLL | Hide icons | On the first log overview screen it is already possible to change the icon order, however it shall be also possible to hide some icons or all. | open |
| ICDN | iPad Map view | As there is sufficient space on an iPad add the map view for each record to the detail view in SplitViewController | open |
| ILJZ | Split log | Split a track log on map by adding a "split-option" to a specific log record. | open |
| IEDM | Weather comparison | Page to compare the three weather data providers to select the best fitting one | open |
| IDXX | Font size | Make font size adjustable with the iOS wide font size setting | open |
| IUHR | Windspeed | Option to show wind arrows not related to beaufort scale but knots. | open |
| ITEE | Third log button | Next to status-button and quick-maneuvre-button a 3rd button to log daily chores immediately. | open |
| IMHY | MOB | Option to initiate MOB from Watch including re routing to MOB position | open |
| ISXR | Bulk update weather | Bulk change weather in a logbook, similar to updating the state of a record | open |
| IGOW | Free text space | ...at the end of the logbook some free pages, for free text, maintenance stuff and so on | open |
| IAZC | Retrospectively change engine | Changing the logbook in this way only works if you have one engine, and as a Catamaran we have two! For example, if the wind dies and we turn on the port engine to keep our speed up, but forget to change the logbook, we can amend the records to show we were motor sailing, but we can’t tell Logbook which engine we were using. Can you please therefore include an window which asks which engine is in use when you change the status to Motoring or Motor Sailing? | Done V2.42 |
| ETMA | Days run / nautical day | Stats are noon-to-noon, not midnight to midnight. For example it is common practice to keep a record of noon-to-noon 24-hour run. Possibility to have this option in settings, either calendar day (as now) or noon-to-noon.
+ I would have liked to show the end of each 24 hour period so you can see the progress you’ve made. | Done V2.42 |
| ICLD | iCloud | Support for database in iCloud | Done V2.43 |