SealBook treats the journal as the legal spine of the practice. Cases, files, signatures, sealed PDFs, and payments all point back to the notarial act record.
The journal entry inherits client, category, fee, and document context.
ID type, last four where permitted, address, signature, thumbprint policy, and notes.
Hash document photos, scans, secure signatures, sealed PDFs, and recordings into the entry.
CSV/PDF exports and correction entries preserve the original chain.
Journal requirements, retention, ID storage, and thumbprint behavior vary by state.
Changing one entry breaks that entry and everything after it.
Corrections are new linked entries, not silent edits to the legal record.