Update: My old way of tracking parts was a mess

For years, I just wrote part numbers and serials on a notepad and hoped I could read my own writing later. About six months ago, I saw a guy at a hangar in Phoenix using a simple spreadsheet on his phone. I tried it on the next job, a Cessna 172 annual, and it cut my paperwork time in half. Now I can find any part's history in seconds. Anyone else have a simple trick that saved them a ton of time?

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nancy_king2916d ago

Oh man, that's a huge win. My buddy who's a mechanic was in the same boat, always losing sticky notes. He finally started taking a quick picture of each part with his phone before he removed it, and then putting those photos in a folder named for the job. He said it saved his butt more than once when putting things back together.

quinnm7716d ago

Honestly, that photo trick saved me too.

marybutler16d ago

That photo folder idea is exactly the kind of simple fix I love. I used to scribble notes about wire routing and then forget which scribble was which. Now I just take a ten second video panning around an area before I touch anything. Watching it back is way clearer than any note I ever wrote.