Trades and building sites: write on paper, get one table in the office

1. Draw a table with a header row. For example: Date | Name | from | to | Hours | Work. What matters is a header row with at least two columns, and the same columns in the same order every time.
2. Fill it in on site. With a pen, as usual. Below it you can write tasks with todo: and a name with @.
3. Photograph the page. With the iPhone and Android app, also without signal: photos taken offline are sent later. Several pages work in one go.
4. Open the table in the office. Owners and admins open Business center → Forms in the browser. Each card is one form with every row of every page, newest first.
5. Take it into Excel. Copy table pastes real cells into Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. Download CSV (Excel) saves all rows as a file.

With gloves, dust and a cold wind nobody likes typing on a phone. A pad in the van and a pen in the jacket always work. The trouble is the way to the office: the sheets arrive creased, late or not at all, and someone types hours into a spreadsheet on Friday evening.

Axsuro leaves the writing as it is. One photo of the page is enough; Axsuro reads it line by line, and a hand-drawn table is recognised cell by cell. With Axsuro Business, everyone's pages arrive in one shared workspace.

Every page carries the same table:

• Time sheet #Huber-refit
• Date | Name | from | to | Hours | Work
• 11.11. | Tom | 7:00 | 15:30 | 8 | screed
• 11.11. | Ali | 7:00 | 12:00 | 5 | fetched material
• todo: reorder tile adhesive @Lena by Thu
• ok: extra work bathroom Huber (signature next to it)

Axsuro turns that into:

• under Business center → Forms, a card "Time sheet" with the rows of this page and of every other page with the same columns, each with its date and page as a link to the photo,
• a task for Lena due on Thursday, which reaches her by push and email,
• a sign-off under Business center → Sign-offs with the crop of the photo around the line, so with the signature beside it.

Columns count as the same when they have the same name, whether "Date" or "date:". A form shows up once it is filled in on at least two pages. Empty rows are left out.

• Forms as one table: time sheets, checklists, delivery notes, meter readings, anything you draw as the same table each time. Copy it or download CSV, not an .xlsx file. In the browser, for owners and admins.
• Sign-offs on paper: ok: or approved: with a signature or initials next to it is kept as a decision and a sign-off: what, who wrote it, the day on the page and the crop of the photo. Export as CSV. Axsuro doesn't check that a signature is really there, and whether a photo counts as proof is a question for legal advice.
• Tasks from the pad: todo: with @Name goes to that member in a business workspace, by push and email. @Team puts it in the team inbox.
• Company sheets: the page templates carry your company's name, logo and team markers.

Not included: ready-made sheets for a site diary, time and material reports or defect lists, weather data and daily PDF reports. Whatever you need, you draw as a table on your own pad.

New under Page templates: "Your week, to tick off". Axsuro prints your open tasks, what you wait for and the week's events on one sheet, each task with a numbered box. Tick it on paper, photograph the sheet, and the tasks are done in Axsuro and, through the sync, in Google, Microsoft or Todoist.

This comes with every plan, not only Business. Events have no box on the sheet: there is nothing to tick off.

Forms, sign-offs, the team inbox and tasks for members are part of Axsuro Business: €12 per member a month, €10 when paid yearly, with 50 GB of storage per member and Pro for your personal workspace. You can try it for 14 days. If you work alone, use Business with one seat. More on Axsuro Business.

• Handwritten notes in a team: how you work with Axsuro Business
  Everyone writes on paper, the team works in one workspace: with Axsuro Business tasks reach the right person and paper forms become one table.
• How to digitise handwritten notes and keep writing on paper
  How to digitise handwritten notes and whole notebooks, old pages and PDFs included. Then search, ask, organise and export everything you wrote.
• From paper to Google Calendar, Outlook and Todoist
  Sync a paper planner with Google Calendar: write cal: and todo:, take a photo, confirm. Axsuro syncs with Google, Outlook, Microsoft To Do and Todoist.