Ha, I used to wave off the fancy tool lists too and figured the old heads were just selling something. Then I spent a whole afternoon fighting one board into place because I had no tapping block, and my pull bar saved me the next week on a tight row against a wall. Now I keep the basics in the truck and admit that guy is just lucky he hasnt hit a job that humbles him yet.

Kept a small spiral notebook in my box for years for the same reason. Every sign off had the shift and the tail number scribbled next to it, and when something got questioned six months later I could flip right to it instead of digging through a tablet. What worked for me was keeping both, paper for the daily stuff and digital for anything that had to get turned in official, since the paper was just for me anyway. When my log got full I'd snap pics of each page and toss the book, so I still have the notes without the clutter piling up. The photos lose the feel of the handwriting though, which is the part I actually miss. Sounds dumb but the smudges and crossed out numbers tell a story a clean PDF never will.