Digital logging vs. flipchart

René de Jong
17/6/25

A crisis meeting revolves around sound decision-making and a clear overview. However, if you log on a flip chart, you miss precisely that. Why?

1. Information remains within the crisis room

A flip chart cannot be shared with the rest of the organization. While others require crucial updates, all information remains confined to a single room.

2. You lose track of the overall situation.

A crisis exercise typically lasts approximately 2 hours. However, an actual crisis can extend for days or weeks. In such prolonged situations, you would eventually find yourself covering your crisis room walls with flip chart pages. Furthermore, information recorded in a paper logbook cannot be filtered or searched.

3. The crisis team operates rapidly.

The logger must take notes while standing when logging on flip charts and struggles to keep pace. This results in an incomplete logbook.

4. Because the logger is writing while standing

While the rest of the crisis team is seated, the logger misses parts of the discussion.
This makes it more challenging to actively contribute to the process, and consequently, the logger is not a fully integrated team member.

5. Date and time registration for logged information is crucial.

This is nearly impossible to achieve with a flip chart.

6. Following a crisis, all flip chart pages must be converted into a digital report.

This is time-consuming and increases the likelihood of errors.

While a whiteboard or flip chart can be beneficial in your crisis room, suitable for more creative processes such as creating a mind map, a diagram, or a drawing to clarify a specific situation, a logbook should always be digital!

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