Group chat is not a filing cabinet

Slack, Teams, iMessage—they are incredible for “where are you?” They are miserable for “show me the rough-in on unit 4 from March.” Search gets weird, media compresses, and jokes bury the one photo the inspector needed.

Chat wants to be ephemeral

That is a feature for birthday plans. It is a bug for warranty photos.

A per-job log is boring on purpose

Timeline, tags, export. You can still paste links in chat—just stop letting chat be the database of record unless you enjoy pain.