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What changed, newest first.
Closearoo is built by one person and it changes most weeks. Every change that reaches the hosted app is posted here with the date it shipped.
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The local day, undo on every change, and the worker in pieces
Today is now the day on your own clock, every change that removes something can be undone from the message that reports it, empty lists have Roo on them, and the hosted worker is split into modules.
A day used to be read in UTC, so after about seven in the evening the app would roll over and call tomorrow today: plans, calls, follow ups and the Power Hour carry over all moved a day early. Every one of those now reads the date on your own clock.
Anything that removes or overwrites something says so in a message at the bottom of the screen with Undo on it, and the undo stands for eight seconds. It puts back what was taken rather than guessing: a deleted note, a cleared call list, a stage that moved, a follow up that was ticked.
Empty lists say what to do next and Roo is on them, in the same three poses everywhere rather than a different treatment per screen.
Under the hood the hosted worker was one file of about sixteen hundred lines. It is now a router and four route modules, the security headers and the public asset rules in one place, and the public pages in a folder of their own. Nothing about what it answers changed.
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Demo guests, feedback, and the app on a phone
An administrator can hand the demo to one person at a time with their own login and an end date, anyone signed in can send a note from the header, and the app installs to a phone home screen from the browser.
A demo guest is a login of its own with a name, a note and an end date of seven, fourteen or thirty days. Everyone who signs in as a guest reads and writes the same demo book, so nobody sees a real record, but each guest keeps their own password, their own place in the audit trail and their own switch. Ending a guest, switching the demo account off, or passing the end date closes the session at once. Removing the demo book removes the guests with it.
Feedback is a paper plane in the header. Anyone signed in can send a note, the page they were on is captured with it, and an administrator reads and deletes them in Settings. Thirty an hour per account, two thousand characters, two thousand kept.
On a phone the app installs to the home screen from the browser and opens without the browser bars around it. A service worker keeps the bundle and the pictures so a cold start is fast, and it never keeps the signed out pages or anything from the interface behind the login.
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A front door, a tour, and six fresh screenshots
The public pages got a recorded tour of a working day and six screenshots taken the same afternoon, so every picture on the site is the hosted app as it stands.
The tour is one continuous run through the app, recorded headless against the demo book where every practice, prescriber and phone number is invented. It opens on Today, starts a day, drops into a Power Hour, filters the Leads list by state and sends the top of it to a call list, then finishes on the Calendar and the Reports page. Title cards mark the scenes and a drawn cursor shows where the clicks land. It runs seventy seven seconds at 1280 by 800 and it plays muted on the home page.
The six screenshots on the public pages were retaken from the same book on the same afternoon: Today, Power Hour, Leads, Accounts, Calendar and Reports. Nothing in any of them is edited, cropped to hide something, or drawn.