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📋 Tradie Admin Guide
How to Turn Text Messages Into Job Notes
The SMS problem
Why job details get lost in text threads
SMS is fast and easy, but it is also where job details go to disappear. When you have 30 active threads and someone asks about last month's job, it is hard to find the right messages quickly.
Simple approach
Getting job details out of SMS
Copy into a job note
Paste the key details into a job note or CRM entry after the conversation. Takes 60 seconds, saves hours of searching later.
Use AI to summarise
Paste the SMS thread into an AI tool with a prompt like: summarise the job details from this conversation. Review and file the summary.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
You can, but they are hard to search, easy to miss and lost when you change phones. Moving key details to a job record is a better long-term habit.
Customer name, suburb, job type, what was discussed, agreed scope, next steps and any photos sent.
Yes. You can paste a thread into AI and ask it to extract the key job details. Review the output before filing it.
Start with what you already have: email folders, a simple spreadsheet or a basic CRM. The system matters less than the habit.
The habit is the work, not the tool. Commit to 60 seconds of filing after each SMS-based job conversation and the system builds itself.
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