The day pack: getting your day before you leave the dock
The day pack is a single download the crew takes before leaving shore that puts every stop, item, map pin, access note and customer phone number for the day onto the device, so the whole day is readable with no connection at all.
One tap, a few seconds, and the day is on the phone. This is the single habit that separates a bad signal day from a wasted one.
What is in it
For every stop in the day’s pool:
- The property — name, full address, customer, customer phone number, lake, zone, coordinates and its boundary outline.
- The access notes. How the boat gets in, read before anybody arrives.
- Every item on the job, with its type, its install and storage points, and its notes — the right notes: install notes on a spring trip, removal notes on a fall one.
- How far along the job already is, so a pin can be the right color before you get there.
- Any office notes attached to the job.
And for the day itself:
- Which boat you are on, what gear is aboard, who else is on the crew, and which lake and zones the deployment is pointed at.
- The shapes the chart draws when there is no imagery — property outlines and zone boundaries.
Why it ships real record ids
The device never invents a record. The pack carries the real server ids for every property, item and job, so anything the crew records offline points at something that already exists. That one rule is what makes offline sync tractable instead of a merge nightmare.
It is also why the pack is a download rather than something the app builds as it goes. You cannot create a new property from the boat, and you should not want to — that is how you end up with two records for one shoreline and a fortnight of cleanup.
When to pull it
At the landing, before the boat leaves, every day. Not the night before — a repoint or a new job in the morning would not be in it. It is a few seconds.
Pull it again if dispatch repoints you and you still have signal. The pack reflects the zones you were pointed at when you downloaded it.
What it does not carry
Map imagery. Satellite and vector tiles are not stored on the device, so a lake nobody has opened before will draw without a picture behind it. What you still get is the geometry — the property outlines, the zone boundaries and every pin — which is enough to work from. A plotter with no chart still plots.
Photographs also need a connection to upload. Everything typed or tapped does not. See working with no signal.
If somebody forgot
The app says so plainly: you are offline and this device has no saved day. There is no recovery from that on the water, which is the whole reason the tap is one tap and lives where a thumb lands.
Still stuck? Ask us — or go back to the help center.