A New App, Not an Update
The sidebar is gone. Verascribe Guardian now opens in its own full window.
Summary
Verascribe Guardian 3.0 replaces the old in-spreadsheet sidebar with a standalone, full-window web app. Saving is instant, your records still live in your own Google account, and from now on the app updates itself instead of asking you to migrate to a new workbook. Everything you tracked before is still here, alongside the two features people asked for most: logging multiple days at once, and attaching real files to an entry.
Out of the Sidebar, Into a Real App
The old Verascribe lived in a narrow panel pinned to the side of a Google Sheet. It worked, but you felt its edges — a cramped column, and a wait after every save while the sheet rebuilt itself.
3.0 opens in its own window, with the whole screen for your records. And the wait is gone: your entries now save to your device the instant you hit save, then sync quietly to your Google Sheet in the background. You log what happened and move on.
Because it’s a web app, you’re always on the current version. No more exporting your records and re-importing them into a brand-new workbook just to get an update — the updates come to you.
The Two Features People Asked For Most
Log several days at once. A whole week of overnights, or a recurring pattern, in a single action — instead of repeating the same form over and over.
Attach the actual file. Screenshots, PDFs, voice memos, video — kept right alongside the entry they belong to, in your own Google Drive. Each file is checked again whenever you download it, so you’ll know if a stored copy ever changes.
Fewer Permissions, Same Privacy
On the old sidebar, Google asked you to approve a longer list of permissions just so the app could run inside your spreadsheet. The new app asks for far fewer — when you set it up, you’ll see just three: the Drive files Verascribe creates with you, a quick license check, and permission to send a support email when you tap “Contact Us.” Verascribe is now a Google-verified app, so that one-time “unverified app” notice is gone too.
What hasn’t changed: your records live in your own Google account, and we cannot see them. Your logs stay in your Google Sheets workbook; your evidence files stay in your Google Drive. If you ever stop using the app, everything stays exactly where you left it.
Moving Your Records Across
Bringing your history over from the old workbook is two steps — export from the old workbook, import into the new app. The guided Import flow validates your file, saves it to your device right away, then syncs it to your Sheet in the background, and picks up where it left off if it’s interrupted.
Step-by-step directions are in the upgrade guide:
A Note on Your License
Your purchase covers one year of full access. After that, the app stays open read-only, forever — you can view, search, and export your records anytime, with no further payment. Renew whenever you’d like to resume adding new entries. Nothing you’ve already logged is ever locked away.
Thank you for trusting us with something this important. And if you set the old version aside, it’s worth another look — the things that made you close the tab are the things we rebuilt.
Technical Changes in 3.0.0
A Brand-New App
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Full-Window Web App: Verascribe Guardian is now a standalone app that opens in its own browser window — the whole screen for your records, instead of a narrow panel pinned inside a Google Sheet.
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Instant Saves: Entries save to your device the moment you hit save, then sync to your Google Sheet in the background. No more waiting on a rebuild after every entry.
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Always Up to Date: Because 3.0 is a web app, you’re always on the latest version — new features arrive on their own, with no more migrating to a new workbook just to get an update.
What You Asked For
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Bulk Logging: A new Single-day / Multiple-days switch lets you log a run of dates — a week of overnights or a recurring pattern — in a single action, with duplicate detection.
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File Attachments: The new Evidence Locker attaches the actual file (images, PDFs, audio, video) to any entry, and re-checks each file whenever you download it, so you’ll know if a stored copy ever changes.
See Everything at a Glance
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Live Dashboard: A redesigned dashboard with 20+ charts across Time Shared, Communication, Money Owed, Children & Care, and Significant Events — updating live as you log.
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Drag-and-Drop Calendars: A month/week Event Calendar you can rearrange by dragging, plus a planned-vs-actual Custody Calendar that shows where actual custody drifted from the plan.
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Finance Ledger: Child support arrears, reimbursable expenses, and personal expenses in one place — organized and totaled for you.
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Smart Search: Type ‘glasses’ or ‘overnight’ and jump straight to a pre-filled form.
Privacy & Permissions
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Fewer Permissions: When you set up 3.0, Google asks you to approve just three things — the Drive files the app creates with you, a license check, and sending a support email on request. The old in-Sheets version needed more.
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Verified by Google: Verascribe is now a Google-verified app, so the one-time ‘unverified app’ security notice is gone.
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Still Yours, Still Private: Your records live in your own Google account — your Sheets workbook for your logs, your Drive for your evidence. We cannot see them.
Reliability & Records
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Offline-First Saves: Entries are saved on your device first and queued to sync, with automatic retries — a brief network hiccup no longer blocks your entry.
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Draft Rescue: If your sign-in expires mid-entry, your notes stay on screen with one-click options to copy them and sign back in.
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A Clear Audit Trail: Every entry is timestamped and every change is tracked in an audit trail, so you keep an honest history of what was written and when.
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Guided Import: A step-by-step Import flow brings your records from the old workbook across — validating the file, saving to your device, then syncing in the background, and resuming if it’s interrupted.