diff --git a/gui/Cargo.lock b/gui/Cargo.lock
index 622b007..4984145 100644
--- a/gui/Cargo.lock
+++ b/gui/Cargo.lock
@@ -1312,13 +1312,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "dirs 5.0.1",
  "env_logger",
  "lazy_static",
+ "log",
  "rand",
  "ratatui",
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "serde_yaml",
+ "simplelog",
  "sysinfo",
+ "time",
  "tokio",
  "webbrowser",
 ]
@@ -2328,6 +2331,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "simplelog"
+version = "0.12.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "16257adbfaef1ee58b1363bdc0664c9b8e1e30aed86049635fb5f147d065a9c0"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "termcolor",
+ "time",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "siphasher"
 version = "0.3.11"
@@ -2490,6 +2504,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termcolor"
+version = "1.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "06794f8f6c5c898b3275aebefa6b8a1cb24cd2c6c79397ab15774837a0bc5755"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "terminfo"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -2583,12 +2606,14 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "35e7868883861bd0e56d9ac6efcaaca0d6d5d82a2a7ec8209ff492c07cf37b21"
 dependencies = [
  "deranged",
+ "itoa",
  "libc",
  "num-conv",
  "num_threads",
  "powerfmt",
  "serde",
  "time-core",
+ "time-macros",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2597,6 +2622,16 @@ version = "0.1.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ef927ca75afb808a4d64dd374f00a2adf8d0fcff8e7b184af886c3c87ec4a3f3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "time-macros"
+version = "0.2.19"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2834e6017e3e5e4b9834939793b282bc03b37a3336245fa820e35e233e2a85de"
+dependencies = [
+ "num-conv",
+ "time-core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tiny-keccak"
 version = "2.0.2"
diff --git a/gui/Cargo.toml b/gui/Cargo.toml
index 67fc2ff..00074d8 100644
--- a/gui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/gui/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,4 +20,7 @@ lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 base64 = "0.22.1"
 aes-gcm = "0.10.3"
 sysinfo = "0.33.0"
-rand = "0.8.5"
\ No newline at end of file
+rand = "0.8.5"
+log = "0.4"
+simplelog = "0.12"
+time = { version = "0.3", features = ["macros"] }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gui/src/lib.rs b/gui/src/lib.rs
index 6e7d246..c356caf 100644
--- a/gui/src/lib.rs
+++ b/gui/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ pub mod config;
 pub mod app;
 pub mod ui;
 pub mod prerun;
-pub mod tasks;
\ No newline at end of file
+pub mod tasks;
+pub mod logger;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gui/src/logger.rs b/gui/src/logger.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2da83b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui/src/logger.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use simplelog::*;
+use chrono::Local;
+use std::io;
+use time::macros::format_description;
+
+pub struct Logger;
+
+impl Logger {
+    pub fn init() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let home_dir = dirs::home_dir()
+            .ok_or_else(|| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::NotFound, "Home directory not found"))?;
+        
+        let log_dir = home_dir.join(".manuscript").join("logs");
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&log_dir)?;
+        
+        let log_file_name = format!("manuscript_{}.log", Local::now().format("%Y-%m-%d"));
+        let log_file_path = log_dir.join(log_file_name);
+
+        println!("log_file_path: {}", log_file_path.to_string_lossy());
+        
+        let config = ConfigBuilder::new()
+            .set_time_format_custom(format_description!("[year]-[month]-[day] [hour]:[minute]:[second].[subsecond digits:3]"))
+            .set_thread_level(LevelFilter::Info)
+            .set_target_level(LevelFilter::Error)
+            .set_location_level(LevelFilter::Debug)
+            .build();
+
+        CombinedLogger::init(vec![
+            WriteLogger::new(
+                LevelFilter::Info,
+                config.clone(),
+                File::create(log_file_path)?
+            ),
+        ]).map_err(|e| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e))?;
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    pub fn get_log_path() -> io::Result<PathBuf> {
+        let home_dir = dirs::home_dir()
+            .ok_or_else(|| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::NotFound, "Home directory not found"))?;
+        
+        let log_dir = home_dir.join(".manuscript").join("logs");
+        let log_file_name = format!("manuscript_{}.log", Local::now().format("%Y-%m-%d"));
+        
+        Ok(log_dir.join(log_file_name))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/gui/src/main.rs b/gui/src/main.rs
index 4738afb..3124c16 100644
--- a/gui/src/main.rs
+++ b/gui/src/main.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 use manuscript_gui::app::App;
+use manuscript_gui::logger::Logger;
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
-    env_logger::init();
-
+    if let Err(e) = Logger::init() {
+        eprintln!("Failed to initialize logger: {}", e);
+    }
     let mut terminal = ratatui::init();
     let mut app = App::new().await;
     let app_result = app.run(&mut terminal);
diff --git a/gui/src/tasks/tasks.rs b/gui/src/tasks/tasks.rs
index 03859b6..6cceea8 100644
--- a/gui/src/tasks/tasks.rs
+++ b/gui/src/tasks/tasks.rs
@@ -493,9 +493,12 @@ impl JobManager {
             name: yaml["name"].as_str().unwrap_or("demo").to_string(),
             spec_version: yaml["specVersion"].as_str().unwrap_or("v1.0.0").to_string(),
             parallelism: yaml["parallelism"].as_u64().unwrap_or(1),
-            db_port: yaml["port"].as_u64().unwrap_or(15432) as u16,
-            graphql_port: yaml["graphqlPort"].as_u64().unwrap_or(19080) as u16,
-            job_port: yaml["port"].as_u64().unwrap_or(18080) as u16,
+            db_port: self.get_available_port(15432, 15439)
+                .unwrap_or(15432),
+            graphql_port: self.get_available_port(19080, 19090)
+                .unwrap_or(19080),
+            job_port: self.get_available_port(18080, 18090)
+                .unwrap_or(18080),
             source: SourceConfig {
                 name: source["name"].as_str().unwrap_or("").to_string(),
                 dataset_type: source["type"].as_str().unwrap_or("dataset").to_string(),