so ive been using N1MM pretty much exclusively for like 3 years now and its great for contests, no complaints there, but outside of contest weekends its kind of overkill and the interface just feels clunky when im doing casual rag chews or keeping track of dx confirmations. a buddy suggested Log4OM and i messed around with the demo for a bit and it does seem a lot more polished for day to day stuff.

the problem is i really dont want to maintain two separate logs. ive seen people mention exporting ADIF back and forth but that always makes me nervous about dupes or messed up timestamps, especially when WSJT-X is also throwing FT8 contacts into the mix. right now WSJT-X writes to its own log and i manually import that into N1MM every week or so which is already kind of annoying.

does anyone have a workflow that actually works cleanly for all three of these? like N1MM for contests, Log4OM as the main shack log, and WSJT-X feeding into something sensibly? or am i just overthinking this and should pick one and stick with it

yeah i had basically the same headache for a while. what i ended up doing was making Log4OM the master log and setting WSJT-X to log directly to it via the UDP port — Log4OM handles that pretty well once you get the settings right, took me maybe 20 minutes to figure out the port config but after that it just works. FT8 contacts show up automatically, no manual imports.

for contests i still fire up N1MM because honestly nothing touches it for that, but when the contest is done i export the ADIF from N1MM and import into Log4OM. ive been doing this for about a year and a half and havent had any real dupe issues, Log4OM seems to flag them during import. the timestamps have been fine too as long as your PC clock is synced which it should be anyway if youre running WSJT-X.

the one thing i will say is dont try to run WSJT-X and N1MM at the same time pointing at the same UDP port, learned that the hard way during a contest weekend when i forgot to close Log4OM and everything got weird

honestly i just picked one and stuck with it. tried juggling multiple logging programs for about six months and it was a constant source of anxiety wondering if everything was actually synced. ended up going all in on Log4OM and just accept that the contest interface isnt as slick as N1MM. for the three or four contests i actually care about per year its fine enough, i'm not a serious contester anyway so i dont need every millisecond optimized.

the WSJT-X integration in Log4OM really is pretty solid though, that part i agree with. set it up once and forget it.