BITOGers with electronic maintenance logs

[Falcon_LS]

Just a word of reminder - keep back ups!

My hard disk went bust today, and thankfully I didn't lose any maintenance logs or other data for that matter. I print out each monthly log and place it in a folder with that month's receipts, and on an annual basis I burn my yearly maintenance logs on CD to keep in my maintenance folders. I also started to keep an Internet based maintenance log. Just thought I'd post this in case anybody only keeps an electronic log.

 

[dparm]

I keep mine on Google Docs. Let the cloud back it up...

 

[eljefino]

I use an excel spreadsheet and somehow lost about 8 months transitioning to a new computer.

If someone has a problem with that, when I sell at 300,000 miles, too darn bad.

 

[JHZR2]

Google docs is a good idea. I personally use my fuel economy log to put in maintenance, and then just keep receipts. My memory is good enough to fill in the rest. That said, a universally available doc would be nice, especially in this age of iphones - could I update it from my phone?

 

[07Wolfie]

I use an app called aCAR (available on Android, not sure about iOS). Fully customizable to enter what maintenance was performed and when it's due again. Automatic backups daily, records exportable in almost any format. Tracks fuel-ups and expenses too, has lots of cool graphs and tables, best of its type I've found.

 

[Falcon_LS]

Thanks for the Google Docs suggestion, Dan.

I've been using SuperMotors as an online maintenance log. Perhaps this may be of interest to some BITOGers as well.

 

[wavinwayne]

I keep simple .txt files of my vehicles maintenance histories. I store the files in my dropbox folder, which is synced across all three of my computers that have dropbox installed.

 

[dparm]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Google docs is a good idea. I personally use my fuel economy log to put in maintenance, and then just keep receipts. My memory is good enough to fill in the rest. That said, a universally available doc would be nice, especially in this age of iphones - could I update it from my phone?


Yes.