Learn Sentinel, one step at a time

A complete walkthrough, from the first click to the result, on the web and on your phone.

• 01Create your first taskThe whole walkthrough, from the first click to a created task — four steps on the web, four screens on your phone.WM

Create your organization, import your trails and invite your team.

• 02Your first sign-in: linking your account to a trail siteWhat Sentinel shows when a brand-new account has no site yet, and the two ways to get one: create your own from a computer, or get invited.WM
• 03Deleting your account: what goes, what staysThe full flow from mobile or the Web, what deletion really erases, and what happens to a trail site you own.WM

Report, document and complete work from your phone, even without coverage.

• 04Report a problem from the mapCreate a geolocated task in seconds from the field map, even without coverage.M
• 05Annotating on the map: showing the extent, not just the spotAdd zones, lines and photo points to a task's map so people see the size of the job before they head out.WM
• 06Annotating a photo: circle it, point at it, explain itDraw freehand on a photo before attaching it to a task, a structure or a message.M
• 07Working off the network: how Sentinel handles no signalWhat you can read and do without a connection, how the sync queue restarts on its own, and what happens when there's a conflict.M
• 08Reading a task on mobile: the map and the listWhat a marker on the map tells you, what a card in the list tells you, and how the list is ordered.M
• 09Installed data: what the phone keeps in reserveThe seven reference sets Sentinel downloads onto your phone so the map works with no coverage, and how to force an update.M
• 10Geolocation settings: accuracy against batteryCheck that position tracking is working, and set GPS accuracy — what it really changes about which trail a task gets attached to.M

Track progress, plan the work and measure what got done.

• 11The Tasks section: map, kanban, foldersThe two view modes, the list groupings, folders, and the button that projects a group onto the map.W
• 12Create a task from a photoUpload a photo taken in the field — Sentinel reads its GPS location and suggests the nearby trails.W
• 13Filter tasks in depthCombine status, priority, type, trail, person and date to isolate exactly the tasks you care about.WM
• 14Projects: grouping tasks that belong togetherA project gathers tasks, computes its own progress, and is tracked on a kanban, on the map, or in statistics.WM
• 15Triaging reports from the publicVerify what the public sends you, turn it into a task or refuse it, and group in one go the reports describing the same problem.WM
• 16The dashboard: reading the network's state in thirty secondsThe network's state on the left, what got done over the period on the right, a per-trail table, and exactly what each number means.W
• 17Log time on a taskRecord the hours worked, for a whole crew in one go, each at their own role and rate — and fix an entry that went in wrong.WM

Repeat the same checks across the whole network, season after season.

• 18Checklists: repeating the same checks across the networkSeason opening, periodic inspection, closing — run the same list of checks across several trails, have it come back on its own and follow progress at a glance.WM

Inventory bridges, signs and boardwalks, and follow their condition over time.

• 19Structures and their inspection reportsList your assets, inspect them, and turn every inspection into a risk rating, a return date and a PDF.WM

Keep every exchange attached to the task or structure it belongs to.

• 20Trail conditions: telling the public what's openCreate a condition report, keep it current from the field, and embed it on your website with the widget.WM
• 21Conversations: talking about a task, inside the taskOne thread per task, structure, project or checklist. Mentions, replies, reactions, photos — and exactly who gets notified.WM
• 22Notification settings: choosing what interrupts youThree channels, one setting per kind of event, and the full matrix of what Sentinel can send you.WM
• 23Share a task with a public linkGive a contractor, a municipality or a neighbouring club access to a single task — map, photos and GPS file — without creating an account for them.WM
• 24Receiving reports from the publicLet trail users report a fallen tree or a broken plank, with no account and no email — and choose what they can consult in return.WM

Adapt types, trails and conditions to how your organization works.

• 25Trails: the backbone of your placeImport your GPX tracks, sort them by activity and difficulty. Almost everything else in Sentinel hangs off them.W
• 26Activities: keeping your networks apartBiking, hiking, cross-country skiing, ATV, snowmobile — each activity has its own trails, tasks and types. Here's how to turn them on and switch between them.WM
• 27Difficulties: the colour of your trailsDifficulty levels give trails their symbol and their colour on every map. Here's how to set them, reorder them, and what deleting one breaks.WM
• 28Task types: the vocabulary of your maintenanceThe nine predefined types, creating custom ones, picking icons, and why activities decide what shows up.WM
• 29Structure types: inspection questionnaires and numberingDefine your structure types, write the questionnaire that scores them, set automatic rescheduling and the PV-001, PV-002 numbering.WM

Manage members, groups and what each person can see or change.

• 30Invite a member and give them the right accessThe Members section is your team. Invite by email, pick the role, and decide which activities the person can reach.W
• 31Groups: assigning work to a crew rather than a personGather members under a name and a colour, then assign a task to the group instead of naming someone.W
• 32Roles: deciding what each person can doA role bundles 24 interlinked permissions. Here's how to read one at a glance, change it without breaking something else, and avoid locking yourself out.W
• 33Planning: splitting the work person by personA kanban per member and per group to assign tasks in one gesture, and "My planning" to see your own.WM
• 34Work roles: what an hour costsDescribe your trades and their hourly rate once, give each member a role, and the time logged on your tasks prices itself.W