Comparison
The notebook, the Excel sheet, the WhatsApp groups, or Tarikh?
Most chambers in Bangladesh run on three things: a thick register carried to court, an Excel file someone updates in the evening, and a stack of WhatsApp groups for clients. It works, mostly. This page is an honest look at where it breaks and what changes with Tarikh.
How the three-tool workflow actually runs
The register is the source of truth. The junior writes today's outcome and next tarikh in court, in a hurry, sometimes on the wrong line. If the register stays in a bag or a car, nobody else in the chamber knows what happened until it comes back.
The Excel sheet is the copy. The muhuri retypes the register each evening so the Senior can look at a screen. Two copies of one fact means the copies drift, and nobody is sure which one is right when a client rings.
WhatsApp is the client channel. Each family has a group, each group has to be found, and the message has to be typed by hand with the right date. A missed group is a missed client, and a wrong date is worse than no message.
| Prev | Case | Parties | Step |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Apr | CR-2419/24 | State vs Karim | Hearing |
| 02 May | WP-318/25 | Rahman vs Govt | Order |
| 12 May | FM-42/24 | Begum vs Begum | Hearing |
| 20 May | CR-118/25 | State vs Rahim | Judgment |
Everyday chamber tasks, today and with Tarikh
| Task | Register, Excel and WhatsApp | With Tarikh |
|---|---|---|
| Record an adjournment in court | Write in the register, retype in Excel at night | Three taps on the phone; the diary and the next tarikh update at once |
| Tell the client the new date | Find the WhatsApp group, type the message, hope the date is right | Tick 'notify client' and a Bangla SMS goes out, or open a pre-written WhatsApp message |
| See tomorrow's list | Flip through the register or wait for the Excel to be updated | Today and tomorrow on the first screen, plus a 7 am email digest, Sunday to Thursday |
| Know who changed what | Handwriting, or nothing | Every change carries a name and a timestamp |
| Track fees and dues | A separate column, a separate notebook, or memory | Dues per case with payments logged; outstanding total per client |
| Look up a section or a precedent | Bare Acts on the shelf, a colleague, or a general search engine | Ask Clause AI in Bangla and get the section or Supreme Court citation inline |
| Share the chamber's work with a new junior | Hand over the register and hope | Invite by email; they see the same diary from day one |
| Cost | Free, apart from the evening of retyping and the occasional missed tarikh | One chamber price, up to 10 members and SMS included; 14 days free to decide |
Where the notebook still wins
It never runs out of battery
A phone can die at 3 pm, and a courtroom can have no signal. Tarikh keeps its pages light so a weak connection is enough, but it does need one to save. Many chambers keep the register for the first month and stop updating it once they trust the diary.
Nobody has to learn anything
A register has no interface. Tarikh is small on purpose, six screens and Bangla by default, but it is still new. Budget one afternoon for the muhuri and one hearing day for each junior.
Handwriting can hold anything
A margin note, a sketch of the court layout, a phone number scribbled sideways. Tarikh has notes and attachments on every case, but a photo of a page is not the same as the page.
What actually changes in the first month
The evening retyping disappears, because the register and the Excel become one record that the junior updates in court. The muhuri's evening becomes a ten-minute reconciliation: fill in missing client numbers, check that every hearing with a next tarikh has been notified.
The Senior stops asking. Today and tomorrow are on the first screen of the app and in the 7 am email, so the morning question becomes a glance.
Clients stop ringing for dates, because they were told by SMS the moment the tarikh was set. The WhatsApp groups do not vanish, but they stop being the system of record.
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