Every estimator knows the leak: you notice things during the walkthrough — water stain here, outlet needs moving, client wants the door swing flipped — and by the time you're back at the truck, half of it's gone. Notebooks interrupt the scan. Memory doesn't scale.
Say it where you see it
In Scanstead, you just talk while scanning. Each voice note is pinned to the position and direction of the camera at the moment you spoke. Later, the note isn't a line in a list — it's a marker in the 3D model, at the wall you were looking at.
"Water damage on this ceiling corner" means something when it's attached to that corner.
Transcribed on-device, filed by room
Notes are transcribed on your iPhone — no audio leaves the device, and it works in a basement with no signal. When the scan commits, each note is assigned to the room you were in, so the kitchen's punch list lives with the kitchen.
Where notes pay off
- Estimating: every "add an allowance for this" is captured with its location
- Handoffs: the office sees the note pinned in the model instead of decoding your shorthand
- Punch lists: walk the finished job, narrate the fixes, done
- Documentation: pre-existing damage noted at the exact spot, timestamped, before work starts
The walkthrough already knows everything the estimate needs. Voice notes just stop it from forgetting.