Checklists: recurring work finally has its own place
Part of maintenance work never changes. Every spring, every patrol, every inspection brings back the same list of things to do on each of your trails: clear the fallen trees, blow off the debris, check the signage, rake the entrances. Until now, the only way to track that in Sentinel was to create one task per trail — and watch your task list fill up with dozens of entries that all say the same thing.
Sentinel 2.8 fixes that with checklists. You describe the work once, you pick the trails it applies to, and Sentinel creates a list to check off for each one. Your tasks go back to being what they should be: one-off jobs to get done. Recurring work now has a home of its own.
A template you reuse season after season — Save your list of items once — each with its own icon — then launch it as often as you need without re-entering anything. The template stays optional: if you'd rather, you can write the items directly while creating the checklist.
One checklist per trail, in a single launch — Tick the trails you're targeting, and Sentinel instantiates the same list for each of them. One action replaces creating dozens of tasks by hand.
All the progress in a single grid — A checklist's detail shows a full-width matrix: your trails as rows, the items to check off as columns. A ticked box, an empty box — the state of your whole network reads at a single glance, without opening anything. Up top: the number of trails, overall progress, and time elapsed since launch.
A person in charge and an assignee — Just like your tasks, every checklist can have a person in charge and an assignee — an individual or a group — so everyone knows who's leading and who's doing.
Check it off in the field, follow it from the office
Checklists don't live in the web app alone. In the field, the mobile app puts them a few taps away: from the map, open the list of active checklists, pick your trail, and tick items off as the work gets done.
Ticked on site, visible instantly — Every box checked in the field shows up right away in the office grid, and progress recalculates in real time. Nobody has to call in to find out how the patrol is going.
Even deep in the woods — Like the rest of Sentinel, checklists work with no signal. Your ticks are kept on the device and sync on their own as soon as the connection comes back.
A discussion per trail — Every row in the grid has its own conversation. A stump that won't budge, a culvert to look at again, a photo to show the crew: the discussion stays attached to the right trail, with an unread-message counter right in the grid. Those exchanges also show up in your Conversations section, alongside all the others.
A recurrence that runs without you
Truly recurring work doesn't just need structure: it needs to come back on its own. So every checklist can be scheduled to relaunch itself.
As flexible as your calendar — Pick a daily, weekly, or monthly frequency, with a free interval (every two weeks, every three months…), one or several days of the week, or a specific day of the month. Set a start date, and an end: never, on a given date, or after a number of occurrences.
You decide what happens to the previous one — When it comes due, Sentinel creates the new checklist and, depending on your choice, automatically completes the one that's ending or keeps it active long enough to finish the last trails.
Always know what's coming — A checklist's detail states its cadence and the date of the next occurrence in plain language. And if you simply need a copy right now, the Duplicate button starts a fresh grid with the same trails and the same items.
Share a task with the public
Some work deserves to be explained to the people who use your trails. A bridge under repair, a temporary detour, a section closed for the duration of a project: instead of trying to summarize everything in a post, you can now open a public link to the task itself.
A link you open, and close, whenever you want — Sharing is enabled task by task, never by default. One switch, one link to copy, and it's live. A badge appears on the task to remind you it's public, and the link is revoked as fast as it was created.
A page anyone understands in three seconds — Visitors land on a clear page: the type of work and its status, the task name, the trail involved, then a map showing exactly where it is. The point or the track appears with the same pin as in the app, and your annotations — zones, lines, points of interest — are there too. The map opens full screen and switches to satellite view.
Your photos, your call — The task's photos are included by default, in a gallery that opens large with a single click. A switch removes them if you'd rather keep the page plain.
What never leaves — Name, description, position, trail, status, annotations, and photos: that's it. Your members, your assignments, your materials, your logged time, and your discussions stay strictly internal. The page also asks search engines not to index it: it travels through your link, not through Google.
Take the task into your GPS
A web page is perfect for informing people. To actually get there, you need coordinates. So every shared task offers a download in GPX, KML, and GeoJSON — the point or the track, annotations included, ready to open.
GPX imports into a handheld GPS or an outdoor app, KML opens in Google Earth, and GeoJSON goes straight into mapping software. Your volunteers, your contractors, and your municipality reach the right spot on the first try, without anyone having to pass coordinates along by hand.
The web app gets a fresh look
The entire web app has been reworked to breathe better and to look like itself from one screen to the next.
A card for every section — Each section now sits in a white card resting on a grey background. Content is clearly framed, the interface feels calmer, and the visual rhythm stays the same whether you're in Tasks, Trails, Members, or Billing.
One header, one obvious way back — Every section shares the same header bar: title on the left, search and actions on the right, and a full-height back button as soon as you open a detail. Opening a record now takes the whole screen, just like checklists — and you always come back out at the same place.
More room for your data — Lists and tables take up all the available width, and rows of buttons have been folded into a discreet menu. Less wasted space, more rows visible without scrolling.
Satellite view comes to the web app
The mobile app could already switch between the standard base map and satellite imagery. The web app now does it too — everywhere a map appears.
A small toggle at the top right of the map switches between Standard and Satellite. The standard base map stays the most readable one to work in: trails, tasks, and structures stand out clearly. Satellite view puts everything back into the real terrain — tree cover, streams, cutovers, parking areas — which helps enormously when judging an access route, planning a new section, or making sense of an area you don't know yet. Switching keeps your position and your zoom: you never lose your place.