Patterns and shifts, on your phone

• A Notes tab in the Android app, holding patterns and shifts
• Write, search and file them without opening a laptop
• Tap a category to filter, tap it again to clear

Yesterday patterns and shifts arrived in the planner on the web. Noticing something about your own day usually happens while you are out in it, so they needed to be on the phone too. They are, from today.

One tab, two lists

On the web these sit next to each other in the side menu. On a phone there is no room for that, so they share a tab called Notes with a switch at the top. Patterns on the left, shifts on the right.

Sharing a tab turns out to suit them. A pattern is something you noticed; a shift is what you did about it. Having the two a tap apart shows that link rather than hiding it two screens away.

What you can do

• Write one down in a few seconds, with the category you want
• Search everything you have written, including the lines underneath
• Tap a category to see only those, tap it again to clear
• Tidy one away, or delete it, from the same menu

Same account and same data as the web, so something written on the bus is on your laptop when you get in.

Getting the app

It is not on the Play Store yet. Ask us and we will send it to you.

Still on the web only

Editing categories and life areas, booking, and calendar connections. The Account tab links out to those.