Introduction

Tips & Suggestions

Quick Start Guide

Detailed Functionality

Introduction

Do you need to Manage your Gigs?

The word Gig is thought to have originated in New Orleans where poor musicians would perform in a type of small carriage known as a gig so they would not be arrested for playing on the street.

If you’re ready to take control of your musical engagements, Gig Diary can help you. Start gigging the way you like by managing your bookings in environments that suite you. Gig Diary makes it easy to perform tasks like tracking your performance progress, audiences and band members, graphing your patterns, emailing reports, including graphical attachments. Gig Diary allows you to create reports that can be exported straight into a web Blog system. Gig Diary will also allow you to export your data to a spread sheet, backup data offline and all with just a few screen taps.

Your Gig Diary

Start using gig Diary immediately and take control of your performances. Once you’ve used it for a while, you will be able to customize numerous features to make it work the way you like, making it easier to take control, improve your repertoire, increase your focus and perform the way you want. You can customize all the data, so you can track anything and everything. Your diary will help you analyze and improve your performances so that you can begin to manage your gigs better.          

 Support for Gig Diary includes a public forum for suggestions, questions and answers. We work very hard on making our products complete, easy to use and appealing. We always welcome any suggestion or ideas you might have to improve our products.

Tips and Suggestions

Please read the following Tips & Suggestions section. Your diary is very customizable. To unleash its power you should familiarize yourself with its full potential.

Lists

You can add your own "choices" to all lists. When adding events to your diary, several drop-down lists are shown. Add a choice to the list by typing in a new entry at the bottom of the list. You can also do this from the "Manage Choices" option from the main menu or from the "Preferences" option. All choices can be edited and deleted here also.

Look & Feel & Visual Indicators

All symbols that appear on your calendar can be changed. These indicators help you understand your data. They represent an event that occurred on a specific day. You can also change the theme color for your diary. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Columns

All columns that appear in your list view can be changed. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Backing Up Your Data

You can email yourself a report with all of your data. This will provide you with a backup of all of your data. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Reports

All reports can be emailed. The emailed report is sent in graphical format and in comma-delimited format so that it can be used in another program such as Excel spreadsheet. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Quick Start Guide

This section guides you through a simple Gig Diary session.   You will navigate through the common functions to create and view your gig information.   For help on advanced features go to the Detailed Functionality section.

Recording a Gig

You just scheduled a gig, what do you do?

  Your data will be more accurate if you record your gigs in your diary as soon as possible. After your gigs, it is essential to remember the performance and venue or other factors accurately to gain insight into your performances. The Gig Diary allows for tracking of gig dates, venue descriptions, blog comments, performance critiques and a host of extras all with just a few screen taps. Enter as little or as much data as you need. Create new items, new venues, new group names, new equipment needed, new members of your group, etc. in your selectable lists.

Step 1

Highlight the date of the gig and press the add (+) button.

Step 2

Enter the data.  If you have more than one gig in a day, don't forget to enter when the gig is scheduled.

Step 3

Finally, press the “Save” button.  If you do not save before exiting, you will be asked to confirm your action. 

Finding your Gig Schedules or Performances

You have entered several days of gigs.  You want to see if you recognize any patterns in your performances so that you can try and manage your performances better.  The Gig Diary Reports will help you do this.  The report analysis will not be useful unless you have a few performances entered and your data is accurate.  For accuracy, remember to record your data as soon as you can.

Step 1

Navigate to the Reports menu.

Step 2

Select the “Gig Log” report.  This is an integral report in viewing your past, present and future gig schedule. 

Step 3

Select the “Gigs by Group” report.  This provides you with a list of your gigs grouped by Group Name. So if you have several bands, you can keep them straight with this report.

Step 4

Select the “Gigs by Venue” report.   This provides you with a list of your gigs grouped by Venue.

Step 5

The “Performance Summary” report   allows you to get your gig statistics over time. It displays the "Top Ten" of everything. So your ten most frequent venues, cities, performance characteristics, etc will be displayed as well as their percentage.

Step 6

Select the “Performances by Group” or "Performances by Venue" reports   to provide you with a detailed view of your performances.  This will enable you to analyze and enhance your performances.

Step 7

Select the “Venue Summary” report to  see a detailed view of your venues. This way you can track any possible venue issues and correct them before the next gig at this venue.

Step 8

There are 3 Gig Blog reports. Select the blog report or blog by group or venue   to view your blog data. You will be taken to the picture, video, and soundtrack URL when you click on the URL. If you have trouble bringing up the URL, make sure it has been entered in the format "http://websitename.com".

Step 9

Select the "Gig Blog by Group" report   to see your gig blog data grouped by Group Name. 

Step 10

There are several Ratio reports available. Each ratio report can be seen in a pie graph or a bar chart. For instance select the “Venue Description Ratio” report   to see a graphical view of your venues so that you can track and improve any possible problems.

Step 11

Select the “My Performance Ratio” report to see a graphical view of your performances so that you can track any and improve your performances. 

Step 12

Select the “Group Performance Ratio” report to see a graphical view of the group's performances so that you can track and improve these performances.   

Detailed Functionality

Please note that functionality described here varies from system to system.

This section provides details of the Gig Diary application.   If you have a specific question that is not answered in this section, please utilize the cellHigh Support to ask further questions or send your questions to Support.

The Menu

The Gig Diary menu is available by pressing the top left arrow by the Gig Diary program name.  The following table lists the options available through the main menu.

Gig Diary Menu

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Calendar View  &  List View

When you enter the application, the Calendar View is displayed.  From this view, you can add or edit information for the current day, by highlighting the date from the Calendar View and pressing the add or edit button. To delete an entry, highlight the date and press the delete button.  If you want to see more details, select the List View.  You can even change which fields that display in your list view from the Preferences option.

Calendar View

To customize the look & feel of the calendar, select the Preferences option from the menu

List View

To customize the fields that display in this list, select the Preferences option from the menu

  Adding

To add new information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View then press this add button. The following “Add” information screen is displayed.  Enter the information and then press “save”.

When

Enter the date and time of day of the gig.

Venue

Enter your venue information.

Performance and Performers

Enter the performance details, such as which equipment to bring and which performers will be performing.

Rate the Performance

Enter this information after you have performed. This information will help you analyze your performance. It will also help you to keep track of which venues you like or don't like and why. Entering this data as soon after the performance as possible, will allow you to have more accurate data. Also, overall how do you feel? On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad or how good do you feel about this gig?

Additional Information

Enter private and blog comments regarding this gig. Also enter your URLs for pictures, video and sound. If you don't have any, leave it blank.

 Editing

To edit information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this edit button. Pressing this button takes the user to the “Edit” information screen.

Editing

Entering information

Saving

 You will be asked to confirm your action if you discard before saving your changes

Deleting

To delete information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this delete button.  You will be asked to confirm your action before it is deleted.

Deleting

  Select the “Trashcan” button to delete the selected information

Confirmation

  You will be asked to confirm your action before the entry is deleted

Reports

Reports are available by pressing the reports option from the top left arrow by the Gig Diary program name.   After you make your report selection, you will enter the desired date range for your report. The following lists the Gig Diary reports available.

The Report Menu

Summary

The “Log” reports list your gigs for the given date range.   It can be viewed with it grouped by Venue or by Groupname or just simply in date order.        

Performance Reports

The “Performance” reports  lists your performances for the given date range.  The performances can be seen through the summary report, by group, by venue or a linear graphical report. Since the summary report identifies your gig frequency patterns, it will be most helpful in managing your gigs and performances.

Venue Summary

The Venue Summary report, provides you with a summary of the details of your venues. 

Statistics

The “Ratio” reports are useful tools that show you numerous statistics in a graphical view.    

 Preferences

Your gig diary is completely customizable.  You can set preferences for your gig diary, such as color theme, which fields to display and visual indicators.  Additionally, password protection, backup and login information is set in this scene.

There are four Preference sections. 

In the “General Settings” drawer you have access to the password protection, unit of measurements and date formats.

In the “Application Settings” drawer you can access the “Reset Data” function as well as managing your customizable drop down lists.

In the “Look & Feel” drawer you can access your color theme and what visual indicators or data appears on your calendar and lists.  

General Settings

Password Protection

Tap the “ON” button to enable password protection for your data.  If you enable password protection you will be prompted for the password.  There are no restrictions on password length or content.  Remember this password, as you will be prompted for this password each time you start your application.  To disable the password protection just press the “OFF” button.

Date Format

Select the correct date format for your region from the drop-down list. 

Application Settings

Manage Choices

The Manage Choices section allows you to add data to and edit your customizable drop-down lists.  All lists that appear in your diary can be added to through this option.  For instance, if you have a particular “Performance Style” that does not appear in the list, you can add it here.  When you add information to your diary, you can also at that time add new entries to these lists.  These entries can be edited and deleted here also.

Reset All Data

If you want to erase all of your data and start new, you can do this by pressing the “Reset All Data” button.  Since there is no way to reverse this process, you will be asked to confirm if you really want to do this.  NOTE: you can not undo this action, so be careful and make sure that you do not want the data that is currently in your diary.

Manage Choice List

Adding symptoms to the Symptoms List.  To Add an item, you tap the ‘+’.  To Change an item, you tap it; To Delete an item, you ‘swipe’ it and the Delete appears (following figure)

Deleting an Item

Deleting a symptom from the Symptoms List

Look & Feel

Theme

Customize your diary look by choosing from one of the six color themes.

Display Emoticon

You have the ability to select an emoticon that represents an overall feeling about each entry in your diary.  These emoticons appear on your calendar and list views.  If you don’t want them to display, uncheck the display emoticon checkbox.

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.

Text Indicators

The text that displays on your calendar can be turned on or off here.

List View Fields

The information that displays on the List View, can be changed from here.

Theme

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from six color themes.

Text Indicators

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can turn off the display of the text that displays on your calendar.  “Text Indicator 1” displays the last gig city of that day.  “Text Indicator 2” displays the last gig venue of that day.

Visual Indicators

You can customize 3 visual indicators that display in your diary

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.  You can display up to 3 visual indicators on your diary.

For each visual indicator, you select which icon to display if the condition specified is true.  To specify the event, you must select the field, operator and value of the event.   In the example to the left, the “Pain” icon will display if the “Symptom” field equals any value other than “Normal”.  This indicates that you have abnormal symptoms on that day, so the “Pain” icon appears.

Visual Indicators:  Icon List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from several visual indicators

Visual Indicators: Field List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can select the field that will trigger the visual icon to display on your calendar