so ive been using N1MM pretty much forever for contests and it works great for that obviously but outside of contests i find myself just not wanting to deal with it for casual QSOs and ragchews, the interface is very much designed around contest operating and it feels clunky when im just working DX on a tuesday evening or trying to log some POTA stuff

ive been looking at Log4OM and it seems way more suited to everyday logging, the mapping and the QSL tracking stuff looks really nice, and the WSJT-X integration apparently works pretty well which would be helpful since ive been doing a lot of FT8 lately

the thing is i dont really want to maintain two separate logs or deal with merging ADIF files constantly, that sounds like a headache. does anyone actually run both and keep them somewhat in sync or do most people just pick one and deal with whatever its bad at. i tried searching but everyone just talks about N1MM for contests like thats the only thing that exists

i ran both for about a year and honestly the merging thing isnt as bad as you think once you set up a workflow, but it did get annoying when i forgot which log i was in and ended up with dupes across both. eventually just went full Log4OM for everything and use N1MM only when im actually in a contest, export ADIF from N1MM after the contest, import into Log4OM, done. takes maybe five minutes. the WSJT-X integration with Log4OM is solid, i have it set up so everything just flows in automatically via UDP and i barely have to touch it

the one thing N1MM does that Log4OM just cant match is the real time bandmap and the SO2R stuff, but if youre not contesting seriously that doesnt really matter anyway

yeah this is kind of the eternal question for people who do both contesting and regular operating. i went a different direction and just stuck with N1MM for everything including day to day logging because i got used to the interface and didnt want to learn another program. the WSJT-X integration with N1MM works fine too, it logs via TCP and ive never had issues with it dropping QSOs or anything like that

Log4OM looks really polished and ive heard good things about version 2 specifically but every time i sit down to actually migrate i just... dont. inertia is real. if youre starting fresh though i think Log4OM is probably the better choice for mixed use, N1MM really is a contest logger first and everthing else second