adding gear

[Roger H]

Ok, so maybe I'm just blind, but how do I add gear to the logbook?  I see where I can add cylinders and weight, but nothing for my BC or regulator?

Thank you in advance for your help

[Jason Bramwell]

What function are you trying to fulfil? Tracking the buoyancy of your equipment loadout or just having a record?

I track buoyancy of my kit so for example if I dive with my big canister torch this is 1kg negative so I record this in the weight section as weighing 1kg so that I know my total weight and in the event I'm diving without this I'll need to add on an extra kilo of lead. If you just want a record of the kit you used then just use the notes field.

Jason

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Ok, so maybe I'm just blind, but how do I add gear to the logbook?  I see where I can add cylinders and weight, but nothing for my BC or regulator?

Thank you in advance for your help

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[Jason Nelson]

Roger,

To my knowledge on the mobile, jason is correct. You can track your total weight and note what you used in the notes. When using the desktop, you can add each piece of equipment under the weights and assign a weight to each one. Then, when you view the same dive in the mobile app, it will display the total weight but not the breakdown. I wish the mobile had this ability, but just documenting in the note field works just fine

hope this helps

R/

Jason .n

[Roger H]

I was hoping there was a drop down menu like for cylinders. I guess I’ll have to cut and paste from previous dives. 

Thanks for the input. 

R

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM Roger H <drrog...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, so maybe I'm just blind, but how do I add gear to the logbook?  I see where I can add cylinders and weight, but nothing for my BC or regulator?

Thank you in advance for your help

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[emmdarakis]

For this, tags work pretty well for me. Find a keyword that works for you eg "Scubapro Mk17+C370" and add it to the tags of the relevant dives.

Then you can for example search for the relevant tag and find how many dives you have with the relevant regulator.

Similar for other gear.

Works great for the desktop - not sure for the mobile app. 

I hope this helps.

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[Martin Schuessler]

Tags would definitely work, but there comes a problem when you already use tags for other stuff. I decided to use tags to capture information like "night dive", "boat dive", etc. 

It would be great to have several sections of tags. I could then use one set as already described, a second set to tag equipment, a third to tag wildlife, etc.

[Jason Bramwell]

You can do all that with one set of tags.

A dive can be a night dive AND a wreck dive AND you used your Scubapro mk17 regs AND you saw some Barracuda, all can be true at the same time and all can be features of the dive. I do know what you mean though by wanting to split them up into sections though. This is the beauty of tags though, different people use them for different things and because they are not restricted to equipment or wildlife you are able to use them for basically anything you want.

Jason

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