so ive been using N1MM for a while now mostly because thats what everyone on the club uses for contests and it works great for that, but for day to day logging its kind of overkill and the interface honestly feels clunky when im just working some casual dx on 20m and want to log a contact without setting up a whole contest profile

started looking at Log4OM and it seems like it has better integration with stuff like QRZ lookups and the award tracking is more fleshed out, but im wondering if anyone actually runs both — like N1MM for when a contest comes around and Log4OM for everything else. seems like it might be a pain keeping two logs in sync or importing between them

also threw a wrench in things because i started using WSJT-X for FT8 last year and now ive got contacts spread across like three different places and im not even sure my LoTW uploads have been consistent. probably a mess. anyway curious what other people are doing for their main shack logging setup, especially if you do a mix of phone/cw and digital

yeah i ran that exact combo for about two years, N1MM for contests and Log4OM as my main shack log. the import/export isnt too bad honestly — Log4OM will take an ADIF just fine and N1MM exports to ADIF so you can pull your contest results in after the fact without too much headache. i set up a folder that WSJT-X writes its log to and then just do a periodic import into Log4OM so at least everything ends up in one place eventually

the LoTW thing though, yeah thats where it got messy for me. WSJT-X has its own LoTW upload settings and if you dont have that sorted out youll have dupes or missing QSOs. i ended up just disabling auto-upload in WSJT-X and doing everything through Log4OM manually. more steps but at least i know whats actually been submitted

Log4OM's award tracking is genuinely good if you work DXCC or WAS, way better than trying to do it in N1MM which really isnt designed for that at all

im probably not the best person to ask because i just use N1MM for everything and kind of accepted that the UI is ugly lol. but the WSJT-X sync issue is real, i had the same problem and didnt realize for like three months that my FT8 contacts werent making it into my main log. just double check that ADIF logging is turned on in WSJT-X and pointing somewhere sensible, thats usually the culprit