Turning up without the right kit costs you the job.
Two browser tools for UK FTTP install engineers. One writes your job notes. The other tells you the night before whether you have the stock for tomorrow.
They run in the browser on your phone. Nothing is uploaded and they keep working with no signal.
Written by Shaun, who used to do these installs.
Job Notes Generator
Pick the job type, fill in what you did, copy the note out. Same wording and the same running order every time, so nothing gets missed and you are not writing it twice.
Overhead, underground, UG-PIA, MDU and ONT swaps. It saves as you type, so a locked phone or a dropped signal does not lose the job. It also counts what you used, which is what the Job Planner runs on later.
It is free. It always has been, and it stays that way — the notes are never going behind a paywall.
Open Job NotesOn an iPhone: open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. It then opens like an app and works with no signal.
Job Planner
Put tomorrow's jobs in the night before. It works out what they will take from what you have actually used on the jobs you have already done, checks that against what is on the van, and tells you what you are short of.
So you sort it today, instead of finding out at eight in the morning. No ringing round stores, no driving across the patch for one ONT, no handing the job back and losing the day's work.
It runs on your own usage, not somebody's average. The more jobs you put through the notes, the closer it gets. You can override any of the per-job figures by hand if your patch is different.
What it does not do
It does not talk to your contractor's stock system and it does not order anything for you. It tells you what you are short of and by how much. The phone call is still yours to make.
Where to find it
It is in the same app, not a separate one. Open Job Notes, tap Inventory, then the Job Planner tab. The 14 days start the first time you open it.
Open the appWhat it costs
£20 for the year
Founder price — the first 10 only, and it is held for as long as you stay.
- → First 10£20 a year
- Next 20£50 a year
- Next 100£80 a year
- After that£10 a month or £100 a year
Whatever you join at is what you keep paying, for as long as you stay subscribed. Stop, and you come back in at whatever it costs then.
You are CIS, so it is a business expense. It goes through your Self Assessment alongside your tools and your van. Roughly a quarter of it comes back at basic rate, which puts the real cost of the founder price nearer £15 for the year.
First 14 days are free. No card to start it and nothing to cancel — if you do not buy a key the Planner just locks, and the notes, your inventory and your usage history carry on as normal.
Tell another engineer. If he subscribes and puts your name in the “who told you about this?” box at checkout, you get a month added to your key — free.
Card payment is not switched on yet - message Shaun on WhatsApp for a key.
It all stays on your phone
Your jobs, addresses, ONT serials and stock counts are held by the browser on your own device. There is no account, no login and no server with your work on it. Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing for anyone to leak or hand over — me included. I never see any of it.
That is also why it works in a loft, down a chamber or at a rural cabinet with no bars on the phone. Once it has loaded, it does not need the network again.
The other side of that is worth knowing: it is your only copy. Clear the browser or lose the phone and it has gone with it. Export from Inventory & Usage now and again if you want the history kept.
No cookies, no tracking, no analytics. This page loads nothing from anywhere else.
Licence keys and problems
Message Shaun on WhatsApp — the same number the link came from. That is where licence keys come from too, until card payment is switched on.
If something is wrong with it, tell me what job you were on and what it did. I have done these installs, so say it how you would say it to another engineer. Replies are usually in the evening.