What kind of mileage are you looking to track – running, hiking, backpacking, vehicular movement?

Google drive document? Platform independent so no matter what brand phone you have or might buy later itll be there, cloud stored so no matter if you smash your device data will still be fine….. Can always load it all from any device with a webbrowser and for android/ios you can download an app to access it all to make it all fit the smaller screen easier. There are plenty GPS apps that can track automagically ofc, but if you jsut want a ‘simple’ update to a notebook id say give google drive a try.

Now there’s some debate about the security of stuff on your google drive but its not like your putting vital or super top secret info in there when just tracking mileage and automating some fun functions to calculate stuff….

Google doc seems like a good idea. I wonder if I can put the document on my phone’s screen so I can access it directly without having to access Google docs first. I’ll have to play with that.

As far as analysis, etc. goes, I just want to track the mileage for tax purposes. I need to keep track of when I use my business-owned vehicle for personal use.

You could just use Evernote. Since your analysis is a total number calculated at the end if the year, you could just track your mileage in a table then calculate on January 1st.

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Google doc seems like a good idea. I wonder if I can put the document on my phone’s screen so I can access it directly without having to access Google docs first. I’ll have to play with that.

As far as analysis, etc. goes, I just want to track the mileage for tax purposes. I need to keep track of when I use my business-owned vehicle for personal use.
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Check out Google forms, you could make a very simple form with just a couple of fields and make a bookmark to that page somewhere on whatever phone or computer you end up using for the process. The form results will be output to a Google sheet and accessible like any other drive document.

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Here’s the shortcut on my phone (circled in red).

Here’s the simple form.

It even uses the standard ‘Droid calendar/time function when you set the data type to Date.

Here’s the shortcut on my phone (circled in red).

Here’s the simple form.

It even uses the standard ‘Droid calendar/time function when you set the data type to Date.

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Great to see you got it working! Yeah, im a big fan of google products myself. Especially because you are not tied down to a single device/platform. If you wanna make some silly calculations/pie-diagrams to display stuff about your data you dont have to do it with your android (ofc you could if you wanted to) but you can just hop behind a computer and set it all up! And if you decide to buy the iPhone 7f in a couple years you can still use/add to all your previous data XD

I remember when i first ‘discovered’ google form, its like that slick user-interface front end thing i always wish spreadsheets had! You can even make one to, i dunno, take for example lunch orders from colleagues with a form if its your time to do a run and you can keep the spreadsheet viewable to yourself so your work mates dont mess up each-others orders. All google sharing/privacy options are available in combination with all of it. Kind of awesome.

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I use a free Android app called aCar. It’s quick to put in the vehicles mileage, as well as # of gallons, cost per gallon, and/or total cost (2 of those three). Then it will show statistics for the last fillup, and average MPG since you’ve started using it. You could also enter your old data if you wanted to. There is a paid version that gives you even more data, but I’ve never felt the need for it.
(my worst MPG was 15, my best was 31, average 24)
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Basically, a bog standard spreadsheet can do all of that and more depending on how good your skill is with spreadsheets! But if the app works for you and does everything you need/want it to do then thats all that matters right?