Answer the inquiry during the dinner break, not next week
Say a couple’s inquiry about an October wedding lands while you’re shooting someone else’s. During the dinner break, you add them from your phone: names, date, venue, what they want, where they found you. By morning they’re in your Inquiry column with a note on who’s replying. Nothing lives in your DMs.
Name the columns the way your studio talks: Inquiry, Consult, Proposal sent, Booked. Each card carries the amount you proposed, so you can see $10,600 in proposals waiting on an answer, and which ones have gone quiet.
When the restaurant you shot last spring comes back for a new menu, their page is one click away: the marketing lead’s notes, the last quote, the April job, the starred note that they hate hard shadows. That’s how a past client becomes a repeat booking.
Try it: drag the $7,400 card to Booked.