Loadouts
A loadout is the packing list for a trip: one date, one or more apiaries in the order you will visit them, and the lines — what to bring and what to do at each colony. Stinger builds it from your records: colonies that need space get a box (the right box, when your hive configuration is set), queenless colonies get a mated queen, dead-outs and open reminders become tasks, and the last inspection notes are read for anything you asked yourself to bring. A loadout is a plan, so you can edit it; it never writes an inspection and never moves stock.
Making one
- "What do I need to bring to Orchard tomorrow?" — one apiary, one date. Stinger makes the loadout and reads it back: totals first, then who needs what.
- "Make a loadout for Orchard and Gate on Thursday." — two stops, in the order you said them.
- "What do I need for Orchard today?"
Say the day: today, tomorrow, or a weekday (the next one). Without a day Stinger asks. Making a loadout does not ask you to confirm — it is cheap to delete, and the read-back names it. If your organization has no hive configuration yet, a colony that needs space gets "a box" and the line says to set the configuration (Settings → Organization).
A reading older than your stale-reading age is spoken with its date ("2B queenless, as of August 20") and marked on the page. When the notes could not be read, Stinger says so once and builds the loadout from the records alone.
The Loadouts page
The Loadouts page (app and web) lists every open loadout, grouped by stop. Tick a line when it is in the truck, add a line by hand, edit a quantity, drag the stops into the order you will drive them. Reading and ticking work offline; making a loadout needs a signal.
Done, and gone
- "Orchard loadout done." — a phrase, never a lone word; the button on the page does the same. A done loadout is kept as a record; archive it from the page when you no longer want to see it.
- "Delete the Orchard loadout." — only while it is still a draft or sent; a done loadout cannot be deleted.
With two upcoming loadouts for the same apiary, Stinger asks which one ("the one for tomorrow, September 8, or Thursday, September 10?"). With none, it says so.
Sharing and sending
Share on the page opens your phone's share tray with the list as plain text — send it by whatever you use. Send to pushes the loadout to a member of your organization with the app; you confirm before it goes ("Send the Orchard loadout to Jimmy?"). A member with no device registered is refused by name. Nothing is emailed.
See also: reminders ride the loadout as tasks; "which colonies need space?" is the same reading without a trip.