You know the drill: you’re deep into complex colorwork or a delicate lace chart, and the phone rings. You click your cheap mechanical counter, but the plastic jams or the numbers skip. When you finally get back to your project, you're staring at the chart, unsure if that click registered or if you’ve already started the next **Stitch Repeat**. Worse, that crucial scrap of paper detailing your **Gauge Swatch** increases is now buried under the couch cushions.

These analog methods fail the moment life interrupts your flow. Trying to collaborate on a large blanket or teach a new technique? You have zero visibility into your partner's progress. You spend more time manually verifying counts and deciphering faded pencil marks than actually enjoying the meditative process of knitting. This leads to the dreaded necessity of 'Frogging' your hard work.