Many jobs are rounds: checking every fire extinguisher in a building, every pump on a site, every hive in an apiary. The checks themselves are quick. Writing them down is what goes wrong: a clipboard in the rain, a skipped line, a note that nobody can read later.
Afterwards someone types the clipboard into a spreadsheet, or the paper goes into a folder where nobody will find it. When a question comes up months later, which unit was checked on which day, with what remark, the answer takes a search.
A barcode tag on each item makes the round faster to record. Scan the tag, type a short note, and the time is captured with it. For outdoor rounds, GPS coordinates and the weather can be added with a tap.