diff --git a/src/documents/consumer.py b/src/documents/consumer.py
index 3f3b9e9a3..8a7729ffb 100644
--- a/src/documents/consumer.py
+++ b/src/documents/consumer.py
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ from django.conf import settings
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
 
+from logger.models import Log
 from paperless.db import GnuPG
 
-from .mixins import Renderable
 from .models import Sender, Tag, Document
 from .languages import ISO639
 
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ from .languages import ISO639
 def image_to_string(args):
     self, png, lang = args
     with Image.open(os.path.join(self.SCRATCH, png)) as f:
-        self._render("    {}".format(f.filename), 3)
         return self.OCR.image_to_string(f, lang=lang)
 
 
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ class ConsumerError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-class Consumer(Renderable):
+class Consumer(object):
     """
     Loop over every file found in CONSUMPTION_DIR and:
       1. Convert it to a greyscale png
@@ -110,7 +109,7 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
             if self._is_ready(doc):
                 continue
 
-            self._render("Consuming {}".format(doc), 1)
+            Log.info("Consuming {}".format(doc), Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
 
             pngs = self._get_greyscale(doc)
 
@@ -118,7 +117,7 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
                 text = self._get_ocr(pngs)
             except OCRError:
                 self._ignore.append(doc)
-                self._render("OCR FAILURE: {}".format(doc), 0)
+                Log.error("OCR FAILURE: {}".format(doc), Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
                 continue
 
             self._store(text, doc)
@@ -126,7 +125,10 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
 
     def _get_greyscale(self, doc):
 
-        self._render("  Generating greyscale image from {}".format(doc), 2)
+        Log.debug(
+            "Generating greyscale image from {}".format(doc),
+            Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER
+        )
 
         i = random.randint(1000000, 9999999)
         png = os.path.join(self.SCRATCH, "{}.png".format(i))
@@ -141,7 +143,10 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
     def _guess_language(self, text):
         try:
             guess = langdetect.detect(text)
-            self._render("    Language detected: {}".format(guess), 2)
+            Log.debug(
+                "Language detected: {}".format(guess),
+                Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER
+            )
             return guess
         except Exception:
             return None
@@ -152,19 +157,19 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
         simple language detection trial & error.
         """
 
-        self._render("  OCRing the document", 2)
+        Log.debug("OCRing the document", Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
 
         raw_text = self._ocr(pngs, self.DEFAULT_OCR_LANGUAGE)
 
         guessed_language = self._guess_language(raw_text)
 
         if not guessed_language or guessed_language not in ISO639:
-            self._render("Language detection failed!", 0)
+            Log.warning("Language detection failed!", Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
             if settings.FORGIVING_OCR:
-                self._render(
+                Log.warning(
                     "As FORGIVING_OCR is enabled, we're going to make the best "
                     "with what we have.",
-                    1
+                    Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER
                 )
                 return raw_text
             raise OCRError
@@ -176,12 +181,12 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
             return self._ocr(pngs, ISO639[guessed_language])
         except pyocr.pyocr.tesseract.TesseractError:
             if settings.FORGIVING_OCR:
-                self._render(
+                Log.warning(
                     "OCR for {} failed, but we're going to stick with what "
                     "we've got since FORGIVING_OCR is enabled.".format(
                         guessed_language
                     ),
-                    0
+                    Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER
                 )
                 return raw_text
             raise OCRError
@@ -191,12 +196,12 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
         Performs a single OCR attempt.
         """
 
-        self._render("    Parsing for {}".format(lang), 2)
+        Log.debug("Parsing for {}".format(lang), Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
 
         with Pool(processes=self.THREADS) as pool:
-            r = pool.map(image_to_string,
-                         itertools.product([self], pngs, [lang]))
-            r = "".join(r)
+            r = pool.map(
+                image_to_string, itertools.product([self], pngs, [lang]))
+            r = " ".join(r)
 
         # Strip out excess white space to allow matching to go smoother
         return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", r)
@@ -251,7 +256,7 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
 
         stats = os.stat(doc)
 
-        self._render("  Saving record to database", 2)
+        Log.debug("Saving record to database", Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
 
         document = Document.objects.create(
             sender=sender,
@@ -266,12 +271,13 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
 
         if relevant_tags:
             tag_names = ", ".join([t.slug for t in relevant_tags])
-            self._render("    Tagging with {}".format(tag_names), 2)
+            Log.debug(
+                "Tagging with {}".format(tag_names), Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
             document.tags.add(*relevant_tags)
 
         with open(doc, "rb") as unencrypted:
             with open(document.source_path, "wb") as encrypted:
-                self._render("  Encrypting", 3)
+                Log.debug("Encrypting", Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
                 encrypted.write(GnuPG.encrypted(unencrypted))
 
     def _cleanup(self, pngs, doc):
@@ -280,11 +286,9 @@ class Consumer(Renderable):
             self.SCRATCH, re.sub(r"^.*/(\d+)-\d+.png$", "\\1*", pngs[0]))
 
         for f in list(glob.glob(png_glob)) + [doc]:
-            self._render("  Deleting {}".format(f), 2)
+            Log.debug("Deleting {}".format(f), Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
             os.unlink(f)
 
-        self._render("", 2)
-
     def _is_ready(self, doc):
         """
         Detect whether `doc` is ready to consume or if it's still being written
diff --git a/src/documents/mail.py b/src/documents/mail.py
index 550c4bd83..384567e60 100644
--- a/src/documents/mail.py
+++ b/src/documents/mail.py
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ from dateutil import parser
 
 from django.conf import settings
 
+from logger.models import Log
+
 from .consumer import Consumer
-from .mixins import Renderable
 from .models import Sender
 
 
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ class InvalidMessageError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-class Message(Renderable):
+class Message(object):
     """
     A crude, but simple email message class.  We assume that there's a subject
     and n attachments, and that we don't care about the message body.
@@ -53,7 +54,8 @@ class Message(Renderable):
 
         self._set_time(message)
 
-        self._render('Fetching email: "{}"'.format(self.subject), 1)
+        Log.info(
+            'Importing email: "{}"'.format(self.subject), Log.COMPONENT_MAIL)
 
         attachments = []
         for part in message.walk():
@@ -132,7 +134,7 @@ class Attachment(object):
         return self.data
 
 
-class MailFetcher(Renderable):
+class MailFetcher(object):
 
     def __init__(self, verbosity=1):
 
@@ -157,11 +159,14 @@ class MailFetcher(Renderable):
 
         if self._enabled:
 
-            self._render("Checking mail", 1)
+            Log.info("Checking mail", Log.COMPONENT_MAIL)
 
             for message in self._get_messages():
 
-                self._render('  Storing email: "{}"'.format(message.subject), 1)
+                Log.debug(
+                    'Storing email: "{}"'.format(message.subject),
+                    Log.COMPONENT_MAIL
+                )
 
                 t = int(time.mktime(message.time.timetuple()))
                 file_name = os.path.join(Consumer.CONSUME, message.file_name)
@@ -188,7 +193,7 @@ class MailFetcher(Renderable):
             self._connection.logout()
 
         except Exception as e:
-            self._render(e, 0)
+            Log.error(e, Log.COMPONENT_MAIL)
 
         return r
 
@@ -215,7 +220,7 @@ class MailFetcher(Renderable):
             try:
                 message = Message(data[0][1], self.verbosity)
             except InvalidMessageError as e:
-                self._render(e, 0)
+                Log.error(e, Log.COMPONENT_MAIL)
             else:
                 self._connection.store(num, "+FLAGS", "\\Deleted")
 
diff --git a/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py b/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py
index 067323c44..ae72381e2 100644
--- a/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py
+++ b/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
 
 from ...consumer import Consumer, ConsumerError
 from ...mail import MailFetcher, MailFetcherError
-from ...mixins import Renderable
 
 
-class Command(Renderable, BaseCommand):
+class Command(BaseCommand):
     """
     On every iteration of an infinite loop, consume what we can from the
     consumption directory, and fetch any mail available.
diff --git a/src/documents/management/commands/document_exporter.py b/src/documents/management/commands/document_exporter.py
index c8129ad7b..f64aaa39f 100644
--- a/src/documents/management/commands/document_exporter.py
+++ b/src/documents/management/commands/document_exporter.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class Command(Renderable, BaseCommand):
 
             target = os.path.join(self.target, document.parseable_file_name)
 
-            self._render("Exporting: {}".format(target), 1)
+            print("Exporting: {}".format(target))
 
             with open(target, "wb") as f:
                 f.write(GnuPG.decrypted(document.source_file))
diff --git a/src/documents/management/commands/document_retagger.py b/src/documents/management/commands/document_retagger.py
index 84a887de0..d7519f53b 100644
--- a/src/documents/management/commands/document_retagger.py
+++ b/src/documents/management/commands/document_retagger.py
@@ -27,6 +27,5 @@ class Command(Renderable, BaseCommand):
                 pk__in=document.tags.values_list("pk", flat=True))
             for tag in tags:
                 if tag.matches(document.content):
-                    self._render(
-                        'Tagging {} with "{}"'.format(document, tag), 1)
+                    print('Tagging {} with "{}"'.format(document, tag))
                     document.tags.add(tag)
diff --git a/src/logger/__init__.py b/src/logger/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/src/logger/admin.py b/src/logger/admin.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc9446821
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger/admin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+from .models import Log
+
+
+class LogAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+
+    list_display = ("message", "level", "component")
+    list_filter = ("level", "component",)
+
+
+admin.site.register(Log, LogAdmin)
diff --git a/src/logger/apps.py b/src/logger/apps.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c1a7d735
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger/apps.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from django.apps import AppConfig
+
+
+class LoggerConfig(AppConfig):
+    name = 'logger'
diff --git a/src/logger/migrations/0001_initial.py b/src/logger/migrations/0001_initial.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b9b81c296
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger/migrations/0001_initial.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.9 on 2016-02-14 16:08
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    initial = True
+
+    dependencies = [
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='Log',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('time', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)),
+                ('message', models.TextField()),
+                ('level', models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=[(1, 'Error'), (2, 'Warning'), (3, 'Informational'), (4, 'Debugging')], default=3)),
+                ('component', models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=[(1, 'Consumer'), (2, 'Mail Fetcher')])),
+            ],
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/src/logger/migrations/__init__.py b/src/logger/migrations/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/src/logger/models.py b/src/logger/models.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e301b5ada
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger/models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+from django.db import models
+
+
+class Log(models.Model):
+
+    LEVEL_ERROR = 1
+    LEVEL_WARNING = 2
+    LEVEL_INFO = 3
+    LEVEL_DEBUG = 4
+    LEVELS = (
+        (LEVEL_ERROR, "Error"),
+        (LEVEL_WARNING, "Warning"),
+        (LEVEL_INFO, "Informational"),
+        (LEVEL_DEBUG, "Debugging"),
+    )
+
+    COMPONENT_CONSUMER = 1
+    COMPONENT_MAIL = 2
+    COMPONENTS = (
+        (COMPONENT_CONSUMER, "Consumer"),
+        (COMPONENT_MAIL, "Mail Fetcher")
+    )
+
+    time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
+    message = models.TextField()
+    level = models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=LEVELS, default=LEVEL_INFO)
+    component = models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=COMPONENTS)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def error(cls, message, component):
+        cls.objects.create(
+            message=message, level=cls.LEVEL_ERROR, component=component)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def warning(cls, message, component):
+        cls.objects.create(
+            message=message, level=cls.LEVEL_WARNING, component=component)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def info(cls, message, component):
+        cls.objects.create(
+            message=message, level=cls.LEVEL_INFO, component=component)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def debug(cls, message, component):
+        cls.objects.create(
+            message=message, level=cls.LEVEL_DEBUG, component=component)
diff --git a/src/logger/tests.py b/src/logger/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7ce503c2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+# Create your tests here.
diff --git a/src/logger/views.py b/src/logger/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..91ea44a21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.shortcuts import render
+
+# Create your views here.
diff --git a/src/paperless/settings.py b/src/paperless/settings.py
index 88be33a8c..444989990 100644
--- a/src/paperless/settings.py
+++ b/src/paperless/settings.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
 # Application definition
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
+
     'django.contrib.admin',
     'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
@@ -41,6 +42,8 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     "django_extensions",
 
     "documents",
+    "logger",
+
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [