Help & Documentation

The highlighted card at the top is the single stop you should be heading for now.

• It is picked across BOTH lists — a gear pickup and a shoot call compete for the same slot, and whichever comes first wins.
• On a sub-rental return with no return location of its own, the card shows the pickup location and labels it "Same as the pickup location" — gear normally goes back where it came from.
• The countdown ticks live: "in 1 h 20 min", "Now", or "12 min ago" once the time has passed.
• The location name and its full address are both spelled out, so you can read the street without opening anything.
• When everything today has already happened, the card falls back to your last stop of the day rather than going blank.
• Prep and return days have no call time, so they show as all-day stops with no countdown.

When two or more of today's stops have a location, you get a single link that chains them all.

• It opens Maps with driving directions through every stop of the day, in chronological order.
• The route starts from wherever you are — the app never assumes a home address.
• The last stop becomes the destination; the ones before it become waypoints.
• Maps caps a URL route at 9 waypoints; on a very busy day the extra stops are left off rather than breaking the link.
• With only one mappable stop the bar is hidden — that row's own "Open in Maps" already does the job.

Sidebar → Additional Tools → Driving Mode (or go straight to /tools/driving-mode; the old /driving-mode link still redirects there).

• It moved out of Tools into Additional Tools — same view, new place in the sidebar.
• The view is read-only — it never changes your schedule or sub-rentals, so it is safe to open in a hurry.
• Everything is aggregated across ALL your projects, not just the one you last opened.
• It works fully offline: the data comes from what is already on the device.
• On a phone, open the sidebar with the menu button to reach it.

Each row has a "Location info" toggle that opens what was scouted for that place.

• It shows the address, how to get there, crew parking, unit/truck parking, the unit base, the load-in route, equipment staging, nearest transit, reception, logistics notes, and the nearest hospital — whichever of those are filled in.
• A set inherits anything it leaves empty from its master location, so a stage sub-set still shows the building's parking.
• The on-site contact appears with a tap-to-call phone number and a mail link.
• For a gear pickup or return, the contact is the renter's name and the phone number from the sub-rental.
• Nothing scouted yet? The toggle simply does not appear — the row stays clean.

The top card lists upcoming equipment pickups and returns from your sub-rentals, soonest first.

• Each row shows whether it is a Pickup or a Return, who it is with, the date and time, and the location.
• The next one at or after the current time is marked "Next" with a highlighted border.
• Today's entries show as "Today · HH:MM"; later ones show the weekday and date.
• Anything already in the past is hidden, so the list only shows what still matters.
• Once a sub-rental is marked returned, completed, invoiced, archived or cancelled, its pickup and return leave the list and stop sending reminders — even when the date is still ahead.
• Pickup and return times come from the sub-rental's "Pickup & Return" fields — fill those in to see rows here.
• Leaving the return location blank means "same as pickup": the return row navigates to the pickup address and says where it got it.

The second card shows what is shooting today, across every project.

• Prep, shooting, and return days that cover today each produce a row.
• Shooting rows show the call time when a call sheet exists for today; other rows show "All day".
• The location is resolved from the shoot location attached to that schedule entry, falling back to the project's primary location.
• A call sheet dated today also produces a row even when no schedule period covers the day.

Every row with a usable location gets a large "Open in Maps" button.

• Tapping it opens your device's map app at that address — on a phone that is one tap from turn-by-turn directions.
• When the location has exact coordinates the map opens on the precise point; otherwise it searches the address.
• Rows without any location simply show no button rather than a dead link.
• The app never navigates for you — it hands the address to your normal maps app.
• A stop whose address line holds two places, separated by a middle dot, a bullet or a vertical bar with spaces around it ("Studio A, Berlin · Moor Location, UK"), gets one button per place, each named after its place. Today's route passes through both.

Optional, off by default. Turn them on at the bottom of Driving Mode.

• Choose how far ahead you want warning: 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or 1 day before.
• The reminder names the pickup or return and carries the time and the location in its text.
• Reminders are scheduled on the device only — nothing is sent to a server.
• Tapping a reminder opens Driving Mode, with the matching row's "Open in Maps" button right there.
• On iPhone, while the phone is connected to CarPlay these reminders also appear on the CarPlay notification banner — no extra setup needed.
• If you block notification permission the reminders still appear in the in-app notification bell; only the pop-ups are lost.
• Muting the "Gear" category in notification settings also silences these reminders; departure reminders have their own "Shoot day departures" category.
• In the phone apps, a reminder for a stop with an address carries an "Open in Maps" button, so you can start navigation from the notification without opening the app first. Departure reminders have the same button.

A second, separate opt-in that reminds you to start driving, not just that something is coming up.

• Turn it on under Reminders, and pick how early you want it: 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or 1 day before the call.
• The notification names the project, the call time, and the location you are driving to.
• It needs a call time on that day — a shooting period alone gives a date, not an hour, and the app will not invent a departure time.
• Call times come from the call sheet for that day (crew call), including multi-day call sheets.
• Departures are scheduled up to 14 days out; later shoot days get scheduled the next time you open the app.
• They are muted by the "Shoot day departures" category in notification settings — separate from the "Gear" category that governs pickups and returns.

A phone on a dash mount sleeps after a few seconds, which means unlocking it again at every junction. While Driving Mode is open, the app asks the device to keep the screen lit — it is on by default, and the switch at the bottom of the view turns it off if you would rather save battery.

• The lock is released the moment you leave Driving Mode or switch to another app, and re-taken when you come back, so it never holds the screen on behind your back. If your device refuses the request — battery saver is the usual reason — the view says so instead of quietly letting the screen sleep.
• In the iPhone app the display now stays on for as long as Driving Mode is open with this switch on: the app switches off the phone's Auto-Lock for that time and switches it back on when you leave Driving Mode. Before, the iPhone could still dim and lock.

Driving Mode reads from the copy of the plan already on your device, so it keeps working in a tunnel, an underground garage, or out at a location with no reception. Nothing disappears when you lose signal.

• What it cannot do is show you a change made while you were offline. So when the connection drops, a line appears at the top of the view saying you are seeing the plan as it stood when you last had signal. Once you are back on, it goes away on its own and any changes sync in.

The next-stop card picks its stop from the clock, which is right until it isn't: arrive early and you sit looking at a stop you are already standing in; run late and the card jumps ahead to one you have not left for yet.

• Tap I'm here on the card and that stop drops out of the running — the card moves on to wherever you are actually going next. Tap it again to undo. When every stop for the day is marked, the card is replaced by a short note saying so, with an undo for the last one in case of a mis-tap.
• Marks are personal and are not shared with the rest of the crew. They clear themselves after about a day and a half, so yesterday's route never suppresses today's.
• The mark shows the moment you tap. It is saved to your account right after, so a second tap is not needed, even on an account with a lot of data.

Switched off by default. Turning it on asks your browser for permission — that prompt is the only consent involved, and nothing is asked for until you turn the switch on.

• With it on, the next-stop card shows how far that stop still is, and when you get within about 200 m it offers to mark the stop as reached. It only ever offers: a position fix can be a hundred metres out, so it will not mark anything on your behalf.
• Your position is used on the device to measure that distance and is not stored or sent anywhere. Tracking stops the moment you leave Driving Mode or switch to another app, and starts again when you come back. Addresses without saved coordinates are looked up through the app's own server so that no request goes from your device to a mapping service directly.