Looking for a good digital metal detecting journal

[Landmatters]

I am open to ideas where I might find a good electronic metal detecting journal where I can log my finds, their location, add a picture and add notes and other pertinent information. Anybody know of a good journal/database?

I know that years ago Whites had developed one called I-find. I am always worried about going to a wrong site with all of the viruses etc infecting computers.

Landmatters

 

[Silversmith45]

I just use MS Word to log my finds and add pictures. I used to use small notebooks before I had a computer but they were lost over the years.

 

[GKL]

I just did an online search and found one possibility called I-Detect, now I can not vouch for how good or safe it is so do your research first before trying it.

After I wrote the above sentence I did a forum search and found an older thread about I-Detect -

http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=42559&highlight=journal+software

Below is a screenshot of the online search -

 

[Landmatters]

Thanks

Thanks for your responses! I suppose I will try this. Just afraid of viruses, malware, etc, but no meantion has been made so hopefully clean.

Landmatters

 

[GKL]

Thanks for your responses! I suppose I will try this. Just afraid of viruses, malware, etc, but no meantion has been made so hopefully clean.

Landmatters

I use the free version of "Malwarebytes" to regularly scan my computer just to be on the safe side. If you don't already have such anti-malware software you use you could try doing a scan immediately after installing the I-Detect software just to reassure yourself everything is okay -

https://www.malwarebytes.com/

They also have a free Adware cleaner, while not malware, adware can still slow down your computer -

https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

.......hope that helps !

 

[Cherry Picker]

One I wrote about 11 years ago LOL.

http://www.detectorplace.com/treasure/

 

[AirmetTango]

I’ve been interested in a digital journal as well, and figured I would spend some time this off season to check out a few options. I’ve downloaded I-Detect to my laptop, and Tect-o-trak to my android phone (I don’t think it ever got issued for iOS). I haven’t really used either one yet, but plan to do a bunch of experimenting with both and using one or both starting with the warm up in the spring.

I-detect is getting a little old - it apparently was last updated for Windows 7 or Vista machines, but it still seems to work fine on my Windows 10 machine. I did have to install the patch that they offer on their website to get the mapping function to work, but that was easy enough to accomplish.

I like Tect-o-trak from a portability standpoint and it seems to have some nice features, but I-Detect is much more full featured.

My main worry with using programs like these is the risk of losing all the records/databases should the program suddenly become obsolete with the next OS update. I-detect has the capability to export the databases to pdf, word, or rich text formats, plus you can print to a report format, so a user is less likely to lose much work when the program inevitably can’t be used anymore.

 

[Big Treble]

So if you are just recording data, Microsoft's OneNote might be something you can work with, its cloud based, so the same info is always on your phone, tablet and PC

I've used it for virtually all notes the last couple years and it works awesome

 

[sandgroper]

I've got a spreadsheet for clad (I've programmed the spreadsheet to automatically add up all the totals). In this spreadsheet I've also got a column for the location and another column for any additional notes and other finds during the hunt (old coins, jewellery etc). If you want a copy, I can send you one via email, but it is on numbers so it'll probably only work on a mac computer.

 

[SirFrancesDrake]

I use “GPS tracks” app for Iphone. You can log waypoints, make waypoints w photos, paths you hunted, time, date, make a gps plot of your hunts..