Digital Caving Log

JoshW

JoshW

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I keep a digital caving log through a basic word document.

Having recently started engaging with Mountain Training (trying to get my arse through the RCI and eventually MLA tickets), and so have been using their DLOG through Tahdah.

They have the option for logging caving on there, but it doesn't list specific caves, only regions which is slightly irritating.

Does anyone a) use tahdah to log their caving; or b) use any other online type system to log caving trips
 
andrewmcleod

andrewmcleod

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I've switched to Google Sheets... Not exactly caving-specific but it does let me update it on my phone while away from home.
 
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mikem

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BCA logbook is now available on excel (as well as A4 & A5 pdf): https://british-caving.org.uk/our-work/training/leadership-awards/lcmla/
 
SamT

SamT

Moderator
Massive database of caves with interactive feedback, logbooks etc  Coupled with Forums and News pages.
- just like UKclimbing.com ???? 

Anyone up for coding it..  you could call it something  like... erm..  UKcaving.com....  oh... :-[
 
snebbit

snebbit

Active member
I silently added a UKclimbing-like personal caving log website to my project list this morning after seeing this thread, in the hope that when I get bored of coding it nobody will know to call me out on it ;) I know it'd be of little use to 99.9% of cavers, especially those who already keep extensive logs or are fine with good owd-fashioned forum posts or pen and paper, but as long as it's useful to at least one other person that's reason enough for me. And if nothing else, I'll just use it as my own log.

I've been logging mine in a dull SQL database so far (for all intents and purposes, a spreadsheet). I like tabulated data rather than single blocks of text, so that I can waste my time making boring graphs and maps and stuff, rather than doing actual caving
 
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FionaH

Member
ICCC have a trip logger on their website that tracks what caving members do through behind the scenes metadata (I think? - I know nothing about website and database sorry sorry, only how to use the system) - cave, date, if it was a through trip, and who the other trip members were. I often wish I had it available for all the caving that I do rather than just the trips with them.

Also gives a bit of satisfaction and fun to those of us who enjoy watching numbers increase.
 
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Fulk

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Hi JoshW,
I?m not trying to be funny about this, taking the micky or anything ? I?m just genuinely intrigued as to what you actually want. What?s wrong with writing up your trips in a simple Word document?
 
Rob

Rob

Well-known member
mikem said:
Fulk - just means you can update it from any location / device & is stored separately.
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Just make it a Google Doc then?  :confused:

Although i do like the idea of an online database ...
 
JoshW

JoshW

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Fulk said:
Hi JoshW,
I?m not trying to be funny about this, taking the micky or anything ? I?m just genuinely intrigued as to what you actually want. What?s wrong with writing up your trips in a simple Word document?
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No Micky taking taken at all.

I have it in a word doc at the moment (saved in the cloud) but currently use tahdah for paddling log, climbing log and walking log, and my caving log is the only one that is kept separate and in a different format.

I like the idea of it being somewhat searchable, by date ranges etc if I?m not quite sure when something was.

It?s mostly convenience of having one place to manage it all.
 
JoshW

JoshW

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If there was an option that when I add them it would be permanently added to the system that would be a good?un. It?s fairly rare I do new stuff anyway.
 
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matisok

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My brother and I used to host adventurehut.com - which had online logging of climbing, kayaking and caving combined (the sports we were practicing). It went through a number of iterations over many years and we have now returned to the first version which was running without an underlying database (databases are annoying as they require a server setup), and running from a single master .txt file and then it uses a simple Perl script to make some fancy web friendly views and enable cross linkage (eg. show me all the caves I have done with this person). My log file is now up-to-date with caving, climbing and other memorable sports - check it out here if you like http://willerup.com/ticklog/mw-quality.html - the nice thing is it is easy to customise the data you want displayed and also the graphical layouts.

For a more pure caving log in the same system (but that only as caving as activity) check out my friend Martin's log

http://willerup.com/ticklog/mwb-date.html
 
alanw

alanw

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matisok said:
(databases are annoying as they require a server setup)
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Have you looked at SQLite?

https://sqlite.org/index.html - it's a serverless embedded database library / engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite

There's a Perl module
https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::SQLite
https://www.perl.com/pub/2004/09/12/embedded.html/#complex-queries-sqlite
 
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