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plamotrack is one web app that lays itself out for the screen it is on. There is nothing extra to install and no separate mobile site: open your instance’s address in the phone’s browser and sign in as you do on a computer. Everything you record lands in the same collection. The layout follows the width of the window, not the kind of device: A tablet turned on its side, or a browser window dragged narrower, changes layout on the spot. A half-filled form keeps what you typed.
Your phone has to be able to reach your instance. On the same Wi-Fi as a local or LAN install that is the computer’s address on your network. To reach it from the hobby shop, you need one of the remote deployments.

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On a phone

Home on a phone, with two kits on the bench, the backlog below them, and a tab bar with Home, Kits, Orders, Inventory and More.Home on a phone, with two kits on the bench, the backlog below them, and a tab bar with Home, Kits, Orders, Inventory and More.

Home on a phone: the bench first, the tab bar under your thumb. All collection details shown here are invented demo data.

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Getting around

The tab bar has five tabs: Home, Kits, Orders, Inventory and More. More holds what the sidebar’s lower half holds on a computer: Retailers, Settings, the theme choice and Sign out.
The More tab on a phone, listing Retailers and Settings, a Theme control with Light, Dark and Device, and Sign out.The More tab on a phone, listing Retailers and Settings, a Theme control with Light, Dark and Device, and Sign out.

More: Retailers, Settings, the theme and Sign out.

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Home

Home is one column. On the bench comes first, then Backlog and Recently completed, then In the mail as three groups — Pre-ordered, Ordered and In Transit — one under the other on a phone held upright. Where there is room for two side by side — a large phone on its side, a small tablet — the groups sit two abreast. The pencil on any card opens that kit or order for editing.
The lower part of Home on a phone: completed kits with their ratings and dates, then In the mail grouped under Pre-ordered, Ordered and In Transit.The lower part of Home on a phone: completed kits with their ratings and dates, then In the mail grouped under Pre-ordered, Ordered and In Transit.

Further down Home: recently completed kits, then the mail in its three groups.

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Lists, filters and sorting

Kits, Orders, Inventory and Retailers show a card for each row. Tap the pencil on a card to edit it. On Orders, tap the card itself to see the order’s lines. On Kits and Orders, the search box stays at the top of the list and everything else — status, series, retailer, sort order — lives behind one button beside it.
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Open the sheet

Tap the Filter and sort button to the right of the search box. A badge on the button counts the filters already in effect.
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Choose

Pick a status, a series or a sort order. Each status shows how many kits it holds, and the button at the foot of the sheet counts what your choices will show.
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Apply

Tap Show … kits. Tap Clear to reset the choices, or close the sheet to leave the list as it was.
The Filter and sort sheet over the Kits list, with a button for each status and its count, three sort orders, and Clear and Show 5 kits at the foot.The Filter and sort sheet over the Kits list, with a button for each status and its count, three sort orders, and Clear and Show 5 kits at the foot.

Kits on a phone, filtered to the backlog, and the Filter and sort sheet that did it.

A filtered list has its own address, exactly as on a computer, so a bookmark or a view all link from Home opens already filtered.

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Recording an order

Every dialog opens as a full-screen sheet. Its buttons — Cancel and Record order, say — sit in a bar at the foot of the screen, where they stay while you scroll the form. In New order, each line is a card of its own: the type, the quantity and the price, then the kit’s details or the catalog search.
The New order sheet on a phone, showing one kit line as a card with quantity, unit price, name and grade, and Cancel and Record order in a bar at the bottom.The New order sheet on a phone, showing one kit line as a card with quantity, unit price, name and grade, and Cancel and Record order in a bar at the bottom.

New order on a phone: a line is a card, and the actions stay at the foot of the screen.

The steps are the ones in Kits & Orders; only the shape differs.

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Counting stock

On Inventory, each card has a minus and a plus button either side of the count, sized for a finger. It is the quickest way to take one pot of cement off the shelf mid-build.
Inventory on a phone, on the Consumables tab: a card for each item with its category, a low-stock threshold where set, and minus and plus buttons beside the count.Inventory on a phone, on the Consumables tab: a card for each item with its category, a low-stock threshold where set, and minus and plus buttons beside the count.

Consumables on a phone. The thinner is at 0 until its order arrives; the cement is below its threshold.

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Settings

Settings, from More, opens as a list of its five sections. Tap one to open it; the arrow at the top left goes back to the list.
Settings on a phone: a list of General, Language & region, Data management, Access tokens and About.Settings on a phone: a list of General, Language & region, Data management, Access tokens and About.

Settings on a phone is the list of its sections.

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What a phone leaves out

Data management on a phone offers the exports only: Download full archive (.zip) and the per-table CSV buttons. An archive saved to your phone is a fair quick backup. Importing and the blank templates need a screen at least 768 px wide — a tablet or a computer. The import preview is a set of wide tables, and Replace everything is the one action in plamotrack that deletes a collection; neither belongs on a small touch screen.
Settings → Data management on a phone: the Export card with the full archive and per-table CSV buttons, and a sentence saying importing and the templates need a wider screen.Settings → Data management on a phone: the Export card with the full archive and per-table CSV buttons, and a sentence saying importing and the templates need a wider screen.

Data management on a phone: the exports, and where importing lives.

Everything else is there: every page, every dialog and every field.

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On a tablet

From 768 px the sidebar becomes a rail of icons down the left edge — the same destinations, the theme control and Sign out, without their labels. Pages use the desktop’s tables, and a table that is wider than its space folds columns away instead of scrolling sideways: on Orders, the order number tucks under the retailer’s name, the shipped and received dates go under the status, and the tracking number moves into the order’s expanded lines. Nothing is dropped; it moves.
Home at a tablet's width, with a rail of icons down the left edge, two kits side by side on the bench, then the backlog, recently completed kits and the mail.Home at a tablet's width, with a rail of icons down the left edge, two kits side by side on the bench, then the backlog, recently completed kits and the mail.

Home on a tablet held upright: the icon rail on the left, the bench two abreast.

Orders at a tablet's width, with a rail of icons on the left and a table whose order numbers sit under the retailer names, one order expanded to show its two lines.Orders at a tablet's width, with a rail of icons on the left and a table whose order numbers sit under the retailer names, one order expanded to show its two lines.

Orders on a tablet held upright: the icon rail, and a table folded to the width it has.

Buttons and controls are finger-sized on any touch screen, whatever its width. A tablet wide enough for the desktop layout — a 13-inch one on its side — gets the full sidebar with the larger controls. Dialogs are the desktop’s centred panels, and Data management is complete, imports included.

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Add plamotrack to your home screen

Adding plamotrack to your home screen gives it an icon of its own and opens it in its own window, without the browser’s address bar. You stay signed in: the home-screen app opens with the session your browser already had.
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Open your instance in Safari

Sign in, so you know the address works from this device.
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Open the share menu

Tap the Share button, then View More, then Add to Home Screen. On an older iOS, Add to Home Screen is in the share menu’s own list.
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Add it

Keep the name or change it, then tap Add.
The icon is a way in to your server, not a copy of your collection:
  • There is no offline mode. Without a connection to your instance, plamotrack cannot load or save anything.
  • Nothing is stored on the device but your sign-in and your theme choice.
  • Removing it removes nothing else. Delete the icon, or uninstall the app on Android, and your collection is untouched on the server.

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Large text

plamotrack follows your browser’s text-size setting. On a phone, rows wrap and long names break onto further lines rather than pushing anything off the screen; this is checked up to two and a half times the default size on a phone 320 px wide.