How to use
the chamber diary.

Sign in with Google

There is no chamber password to invent, share or forget. The app uses the Google account you already have.

1. Open app.chamberos.in in your phone's browser.
2. Tap Sign in with Google and pick your account.
3. That is the whole of it — you are in.

Choose your chamber

One Google account can belong to more than one chamber. After signing in you pick which one you are working in. The badge on the right shows your role there.

1. Tap the chamber you want to work in.
2. You land on the Home screen for that chamber.

If you belong to only one chamber, you still tap it once — that is what tells the app which record you are opening.

If you have no chamber yet

There are exactly two ways to get one, and which applies to you depends on whether the chamber already exists.

Put it on your phone, and pick your language

There is no app store download. The app runs in the browser and can sit on your home screen like any other app.

1. On Android: open the browser menu and tap Add to Home screen.
2. On iPhone: tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
3. Open it from that icon from now on — it fills the screen, with no address bar.

For language, tap the chip in the top-right corner of any screen. It says हिंदी when you are in English and English when you are in Hindi. Every screen, label and message changes. Your choice is remembered on that phone.

Reading the four counters

Across the top of Home sit four tiles. Each one is also a button — tap it to go straight to what it counts.

Total Cases

Every case in the chamber's register.

Today

The day's progress as reported / listed — so "2/3" means three matters were listed today and two have been reported. It counts up as the day gets done, rather than down.

Pending

Matters that have gone quiet and need somebody's attention. This is the one to watch.

My Work

Tasks assigned to you that are not finished.

Below the tiles is the menu, and along the bottom of the screen are five tabs — Home, Today, Pending, My Work, Cases — which are always there, on every screen.

Open today's diary

Tap Today at the bottom, or Today's Diary on Home. You get every matter your chamber has listed for today.

Matters are grouped by court type — Session, then Family, then Lower, then anything Unmarked — in the order you would walk the building. Each group carries its own count, and the whole day carries one at the top:

15 matters · 14 reported · 1 outstanding

A finished day does not empty out. Reported matters stay on the list with a green Reported tag and what happened written underneath, so the day reads as a record of itself rather than a blank page.

Record a hearing

This is the one action you will do most. Tap the matter on the diary, then Record Hearing.

1. Who Brought the Date — who attended. Start typing and the app suggests names already used on this case, as well as chamber members.
2. What Happened — one short line. This is required.
3. And then? — choose one of three. The form changes to match your choice.
4. Tap Save.

Try it below — it behaves exactly as the app does.

The three choices, and when to use each

What happens when you tap Save

One tap, and five separate things happen together — which is why you never have to remember a second step.

1. Today's listing is closed and marked completed.
2. A permanent entry is written into the case history, under your name.
3. If you gave a next date, that date is put into the diary.
4. The case summary is brought up to date.
5. The action is written to the chamber's activity log.

Correct an entry

Open the case, find the entry in Hearing History, and tap Correct this entry. The form opens with everything already filled in — change what is wrong and save.

1. The original entry stays, marked corrected.
2. Your corrected version appears beside it, under your name.
3. If it was the case's latest entry, the diary follows the correction — the old next date is replaced by the new one.

Try correcting an entry — including trying to delete one.

The limits on corrections

Four per case per day

A single case can be corrected four times in one day. The day runs on Indian Standard Time. This stops one record being rewritten over and over; it is counted per case, so fixing typos across several different cases is never blocked.

Clerks: the last two hearing dates

If your role is staff, you may correct entries on the case's two most recent hearing dates. Anything older needs a chamber head.

Nothing can be deleted

Not by you, not by a head, not by anyone. A correction always adds; it never removes. This is enforced underneath the app, so it holds even if something goes wrong above.

A disposed case is closed to new entries

Once a case is closed you cannot record a further hearing on it. Its history stays fully readable.

Pending — the matters that went quiet

Tap Pending at the bottom of the screen. A case lands here for one of exactly two reasons, and the tag tells you which.

Not reported

The date it was listed for has passed and nobody has said what happened. This is the urgent one — until somebody records it, the matter simply sits there.

No next date given

The hearing was recorded, but the court gave no date. It waits here until one arrives.

Clearing an item is the same as any other entry: open the case and record what happened. It leaves this list by itself.

Filter the two reasons below.

My Work — who is doing what

Tap My Work. At the top is a small box for adding an assignment.

1. Type what needs doing.
2. Choose who it is for from the chamber's member list — or leave it unassigned.
3. Give it a due date if it has one.
4. Tap Add Assignment.

Tasks show a red Overdue tag once the due date has passed, and an Due today tag on the day. Tap Done to finish one.

Add a new case

Go to Cases and tap + Add. Only one field is compulsory.

Case Title *

The parties — "Ramesh Kumar Vs State of U.P.". The only required field.

Case No.

The court's number for the matter.

Court

Written as you would say it.

Police Station, Section

For criminal matters.

Client Name, Phone Number

Who you act for.

First Hearing Date

If you give one, the case is listed for that date straight away.

Court Type

Session, Family, Lower or Unmarked — this drives the colour coding and the grouping in the diary.

Find a case

Tap Cases. The whole register is there, active matters first, then the ones nearest their next date.

1. Type into the search box and press enter.
2. It searches the case title and the case number.
3. Tap any card to open the case.

Above the list is a counter showing how much of your chamber's case allowance you have used. It turns amber as you approach it, so the limit is never a surprise.

The case screen

Opening a case gives you everything about it on one screen: the title and its id at the top, then three buttons, then the details, then the full hearing history newest-first.

Record Hearing

Only shown while the case is active.

Edit Case Details

The descriptive fields — see the next lesson.

My Note

Your own private note on this case.

Each history entry shows the date, what happened, who attended, who recorded it, and either the next date or the outcome. Entries that have been corrected are greyed and marked.

Edit details, and your private note

Edit Case Details changes the descriptive facts — a misspelt party name, the wrong court, a new phone number, the court type, or the lawyer connected to the matter.

My Note is a private scratchpad on the case, one per person. Nobody else in the chamber sees yours, and you do not see theirs. Useful for a reminder to carry a file or call the client — not for anything that belongs in the record.

Look up any date

From Home, tap Search by Date, pick a date and tap Diary. You get that day exactly as today's diary looks — past or future.

Looking backwards shows what was listed and what was reported: the chamber's record of that day. Looking forwards shows what is coming, so you can prepare.

You can also change the date directly from the date box at the top of any diary screen, without going back to Home.

Invite someone

From Home, tap Admin, then scroll to Invite someone.

1. Type their Gmail address.
2. Choose the role: staff records hearings, head can do everything.
3. Tap Create invitation.
4. A token appears. Send it to them — by WhatsApp, message, however you like.

The role is fixed when you create the invitation, not when they accept it. It works only for that email address, only once, and expires after seven days.

Roles, and removing people

The Admin screen lists everyone with access, their email and their role.

Make head / Make staff

Changes what someone may do, straight away.

Remove

Ends their access. You are asked to confirm.

Three rules the app will enforce for you: the chamber's registered owner cannot be removed and always stays a head; a chamber must always keep at least one head; and there can be at most four heads.

Download everything

At the bottom of Admin is Download export. One tap gives you a ZIP file containing the whole chamber as spreadsheets:

• every case
• every listing, past and future
• every hearing, including superseded ones
• the complete activity log
• a manifest saying what was exported, by whom, and when

The files open in Excel with Hindi text rendering correctly. Take a copy whenever you like — this is your chamber's data and it is never held hostage.

Why one chamber never sees another

You may be a head in one chamber and staff in another. The app keeps them completely apart — not by remembering to filter, but by storing each chamber's records in its own separate compartment.

Two chambers can even use the same case id. They are unrelated matters, and no screen, search or export in one can reach the other.

Try to cross the wall.

Rename the chamber, keep your contacts current

From Home, tap Owner. You can change the chamber's name, and your backup email and phone number.

Deleting a chamber

At the bottom of the Owner screen is the danger zone. Only the registered owner sees it.

1. Type the chamber's name exactly as it is written. Nothing else will do.
2. Tap Delete this chamber.
3. The chamber is held, untouched, for one month.

Take an export first. It costs one tap and it is the only copy you will have.