Drop the whole set, then hit Analyze

Three changes to reading a builder's package, all from watching a real set go in.

Add every file first

A builder's package is rarely one file. It's the drawing set, the tile schedule, sometimes a spreadsheet of finishes, sometimes a photo of a marked-up sheet.

Before, each file started reading the moment it landed — and the drop zone closed itself, so you had to tap Plans again for the next one. Worse, the drawings got read on their own, without the schedule beside them, which is exactly the case where a set produces forty-eight rooms and no tile in any of them.

Now the drop zone stays open. Add everything you've got and watch it stack up — name, size, and a thumbnail if it's a photo. Each file starts transferring the second you drop it, so nothing is waiting on you, and you can pull one back out with the × if you grabbed the wrong file.

When the package is complete, hit Analyze plans and the whole thing gets read together. If everything you've added is a spreadsheet or a photo of a table, the button says Read the schedule instead.

Adding a tile schedule later works the same way: Add schedule on step 2 opens the same tray.

Your rooms come with notes on them

Every room that comes off the plans now gets a note written into its Notes box, saying what the plans and the schedule said about it:

From your plans & schedule — Pool Bathroom (Room 116, 1st floor): • Floor: Cotto Tierra Diamond 8 (Clay Imports) · 6 boxes · Approved • 3rd row & below: Conectada Jade 6x6 Gloss (Clay Imports) · 150 pcs · HOLD (Some of this is on hold in the schedule — check before you order.)

Same information the room card already carried, in the same place you'd have typed it yourself — which means the red Notes box goes green, and everything downstream that reads your notes reads this too.

It's an ordinary note, so edit it however you like: add the shower valve height, add what the super told you on site. Once you've touched it, it's yours — re-reading the documents will never overwrite it or write a second one next to it. Leave it alone and it keeps itself current: clear a hold on the schedule, re-read, and the note follows.

Wall heights, asked once

Drawings don't print wall heights and tile schedules don't carry them, so every tiled wall on a job falls back to the same short list: full walls to the ceiling, backsplashes 1'-6", wainscot 3'-6", tub surrounds 6'-0".

That was one assumption asked seventeen separate times on a whole-house set. Now it's one check that names each height and how many surfaces it covers:

Wall heights — we assumed these on 17 surfaces. Look right? · Full walls — to the ceiling, 8'-0" · 9 surfaces · Backsplash — 1'-6" up the wall · 6 surfaces · Tub surround — 6'-0" up the wall · 2 surfaces

Looks right settles all of them. If your ceilings aren't eight foot there's a tap for that too — Ceilings are 9' or Ceilings are 10' rewrites the full-height walls and accepts the rest in one go.

Nothing is locked in either way: a wall the schedule actually gave a height for is never touched, and any single surface can still be changed on its own room card.

And one bit of wording

Add rooms on the Plans card is now Change room selection, and it opens on the rooms you're already bidding as well as the ones still on the plans — so you can see the whole selection rather than a list of strangers.