What's new

27 August 2026 — Your month, at a glance

• Calendar view, upgraded. Each day now shows its total hours in the corner, and your internship week number runs quietly down the left edge — matching the Week view. And you can now add a note to any day — click a day (or hover for *+ note*), type "Sick leave" or "Public holiday", and the calendar stops flagging that day as unlogged.
• New: See your choices. When type-ahead suggests a phrase, press ↓ to see every matching phrase you've used — arrow to the one you want, then Tab takes it and moves on, Enter takes it and stays put (handy for tweaking a detail).
• New: Pin a phrase. Alt+P (or click *pin* on the suggestion hint) and that phrase always suggests first. Pins live under My Account → Preferences, where you can also hide the little hint bar once you know the shortcuts — suggestions keep working.
• Also: closing your account is now self-serve, with a 14-day change-your-mind window — and the yearly plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.

25 August 2026 — Type less. Tab more.

• New: Type-ahead in your logbook. Start typing in any text cell and PsychLog suggests one of your own previous entries for that column — your most-used phrases first, no setup. Tab accepts and moves on; keep typing to ignore it; Esc hides a suggestion; Shift+Delete (or clicking *never again* on the hint) retires a phrase for good. Prefer no suggestions at all? Turn it off under My Account → Preferences.
• New: Read signed entries in full. Locked entries used to be sealed shut — long descriptions were cut off, and reading the rest meant unlocking. Now double-click any signed entry (or press Enter, or just start typing on it) to open a read-only view of every field, along with who signed it and when. Reading never risks an accidental edit.
• New: Merge duplicate clients. Suddenly realised you've got two client codes for the same client? Merge them in one click — rename one code to the other and PsychLog offers the merge; every entry moves to the surviving code and the duplicate disappears.
• Also: various minor bug fixes reported by users, and polishes requested by users.

21 August 2026 — Journals, rich notes & import your hours

• New: Journals — now with rich text editing, and linked to your logbook entries. Journals has its own place in the main menu, with three private journals inside: your reflective practice journal, your supervision journal, and the new Learning journal — living notebooks, one page per topic, for everything you're learning across the internship. All three now write like a real editor: headings, colours, highlights, checklists, tables, links — and screenshots pasted straight in. Search, filters and a calendar view make old entries easy to find. (Started typing and clicked away? Your draft is waiting when you come back.)
• Bring your hours across. If you're already partway through your 5+1 internship and don't want to import your existing entries (or perhaps you can't, because they were paper-based) — no worries. You can now enter your approved totals to date — practice, education and supervision — with the date they run to, and every Board check, progress bar and projected completion date includes them from that moment. Prefer the full history? Excel/CSV import is still there too. Find it under My Account → Import my logbook.
• Individual supervisor sign-off is now possible. The Board requires each supervisor to sign off (initial) the entries for their own supervision sessions. Now they can: email any individual supervisor — principal, secondary or group — their own supervision record, and when they sign, their initials appear automatically on their sessions in Section C of your reports. PsychLog is the only online logbook where a supervisor can do this straight from an emailed link, with no account to create.
• Talk, don't type. With any cell open, press Win+H on Windows (or the mic key on a Mac) and dictate instead of typing — contact descriptions and reflections are much faster said than typed. More on the Help page.
• Also new: jump to any month of your logbook in two clicks · projected completion shown as a real date · friendlier error messages · the menu stays put while you scroll.

11 August 2026 — See the month, raise the things

• New: Calendar view — your whole logbook, a month at a glance. Client codes appear on the days you saw them with direct/related hours beside each, education and supervision get their own pills, and weekdays with nothing logged carry a gentle amber wash so gaps jump out before they become problems. Click any day to see its full entries across all three logs, then jump straight into that week. Find it next to Week and All at the top of your logbook.
• New: Take to Supervision — that moment mid-session when you think “I should raise this with my supervisor”… now has a button. Flag any logbook row, or type anything at all into the list, and it lands on your private For-supervision list at the top of the Supervision Journal page. Click an item to read the full entry, copy one entry or the whole list into a journal note, and tick things off as they're discussed — items you tick off while saving a journal note stay linked to it, so “when did I raise that?” always has an answer. Private to you, like everything journal-side.
• Drag-fill is now guarded: dragging a value across empty cells just works, but dragging over cells that already hold content asks before replacing them — and however many cells one drag fills, a single Ctrl+Z undoes the lot.

9 August 2026 — One-key everything

• One-key pickers across the supervision log: land on Supervisor, Format, Mode or Observation and press a single letter — 1 for your principal, I for Individual or In person, A for Assessment. Tab in, one key, Tab on. Same muscle memory as the competencies picker.
• CPD activity type gets the same treatment: press R for Reading, W for Webinar, C for Conference and so on — or just type anything at all; your own wording is always kept.
• Ctrl+D duplicates the row you're on, contents and all — yesterday again, mostly? Ctrl+D, fix the date, done. (Insert still adds a same-dated blank row.)
• Column headings stay put while you scroll — no more losing track of which column is which halfway down a long week.
• Download your own copy of any report straight from the send-to-supervisor window — keeping your own records is good practice, so we made it one click.
• Small things that were bugging you (and us): archiving a client now explains what archiving does and offers one-click Undo; the moved-row notice only appears when the row actually left your view; the supervisor Initials column now explains itself (it fills automatically at sign-off); and the Feedback button is simply called Feedback again.

31 July 2026 — Three private journals, built into your logbook

• New: the CPD journal. Every Education/CPD activity now has a private notes-and-evidence space — click the journal icon on any row to jot down what you learned and attach the certificate, receipt or screenshot while you still have it. On your phone, add the certificate straight from your camera. The Board can audit your portfolio of evidence at any time — now it builds itself as you log.
• New: the reflective practice journal — private, long-form reflections with optional writing prompts (a simple ladder or the 5R framework), linked to a practice-log session via the feather icon or written on their own. The brief Reflections column in your logbook stays part of the signed record; this journal is where the longer, honest thinking goes.
• New: the supervision journal — what you want to raise before a session, what was discussed, what you'll do next. Open it from any supervision row, or on its own between sessions.
• Each journal has its own page under My Account, grouped by month, printable with your name and registration number, and included in your Excel export. Journal content is private to you: it never appears in reports, sign-off pages, or anything your supervisor sees.

24 July 2026 — Your six-month progress review, built in

• New report type: the Board's six-month progress review. The numbers — client contact, client-related hours, supervision, education, direct observations — are computed straight from your logbook, this period and accrued, in the Board's own layout.
• Write how each competency was addressed, note your learning needs and general comments, then email the review to your supervisor: they rate every competency (Achieved / Progressing as planned / Not met), add comments, and sign from a secure link — no account needed.
• Optional ✦ AI drafting: with your explicit consent, PsychLog sends the entries you've tagged with each competency to Anthropic's Claude, which drafts a first-person response linking your actual work to each criterion. Drafts fill only empty boxes, are clearly marked until you edit them, and you remain the author of what's signed.
• The Help page now spells out the Board's definitions of client contact and client-related activity, and what the 14-day sign-off expectation means in practice.

22 July 2026 — Signed means signed

• Entries covered by a signed report are now locked against accidental edits — a padlock marks them, and unlocking is a deliberate step that never removes the signature. Anything changed after signing is flagged “edited after signing”.
• Sort your logbook oldest-first or newest-first — one click, remembered on your device. Oldest-first suits chronological catch-up entry.
• Print / Save as PDF now names files properly (e.g. “PsychLog Weekly Report Week 21”) — on your side and your supervisor's.
• Also: new rows now start on the Date cell, Tab behaviour got a general polish, and the warning strip can be dismissed for the session.

21 July 2026 — Filter everything, initial everything

• Logbook filtering: filter by client, supervisor, competency, format, mode, observation or date range — with live totals for whatever's filtered (“how many hours with Rebecca?” is now one click).
• Digital supervisor initials: when a supervisor signs a report, their initials appear on their own supervision sessions — the digital version of the Board form's initials column.
• Supervisors can be marked inactive when they move on: their records stay forever, they just leave your pickers.
• The sign-off email now opens with a personalised note (editable), and you can create a share-yourself secure link instead of emailing.
• Supervisor registration numbers on supervision records, clearer saving on Account details, speed tips on the logbook itself, and a show-password eye on sign-in.

20 July 2026 — Supervisor sign-off arrives

• Email any report to a supervisor for digital sign-off: they open a secure personal link, review the exact document you see, and sign with their typed name — no account, no printing, no scanning.
• Signing is recorded on the report (name, date, timestamp), you're notified by email, and the supervisor gets a permanent link to their signed copy.
• Report types beyond the week: any date range, the full logbook, or a supervision record for one supervisor (their sessions only — ideal for end-of-placement sign-off).
• Sending a report stamps your own digital signature on it — supervisors always receive a document you've already signed.
• Reports are a true snapshot: totals and progress are calculated as at the end of the report period, not today.

15 July 2026 — Sharper supervision tracking

• Supervision compliance now mirrors the Board's rules precisely: the 80-hour minimum counts principal hours in full and group/secondary hours up to 30 — and logging more than 30 is fine, it simply stops counting.
• The supervision-ratio check warns the moment you slip below 1 hour per 18 — no grace band.
• Long supervision summaries get the same floating editor as the practice log, and new rows arrive genuinely blank.

14 July 2026 — Bring your whole history

• Import your existing logbook from the Board's LBPP-76 spreadsheet (including modified copies), another logbook app's export, or any Excel/CSV — with automatic column matching.
• Your file is read entirely in your browser and never uploaded; every import is undoable in one click, and duplicates are detected and skipped.

13 July 2026 — Free trial, fair billing

• Every account starts with a 14-day free trial — no credit card. Gentle reminders at 7, 5 and 2 days; if it ends, your data stays viewable and exportable forever.
• Live subscriptions: A$12/month or A$99/year, cancel any time from your Account page.

9 July 2026 — PsychLog launches

• The lightning-fast 5+1 logbook: spreadsheet-style entry with Tab-to-next-entry, one-keypress competencies, and Ctrl+Z undo.
• Every Board requirement tracked automatically, explained in plain English, with links to the actual Board documents.
• Weekly reports in the Board's layout, print-ready. De-identified client codes throughout. Data hosted in Sydney.

Where PsychLog came from

PsychLog first launched in 2022, supporting provisional psychologists on the 4+2 pathway — back when there was no online logbook to be had. In 2026 it was rebuilt from the ground up and relaunched for the 5+1 pathway. It has been conceived, designed and built by provisional psychologists, for provisional psychologists.

Got an idea, or need a feature that doesn't exist yet? Get in touch — the feedback button in the app goes straight to a human, or email hello [at] psychlog.com.au.