Buttons & navigation

The dashboard has exactly two buttons, and one rule that covers everything else.

The two buttons

They sit in the bottom-right corner of the board.

Edit layout — move, resize, add and remove cards. The board shows each card’s minimum size while you work, so nothing ends up too small to read.

Settings — everything else: your stations, teams, tickers and news outlets, the screensaver and display schedule, °F or °C, and setup codes.

The clock and greeting across the top are always there; everything else on the screen is a card you chose.

The third control: the cards themselves

Tap a card to open it. Almost every card opens full screen — the full train board, the whole forecast, every ticker, the reading list.

This applies to nearly every card, so there is nothing to memorize per card. The few that don’t open anything (Air & Sky, Quote of the Day, Word of the Day) have nothing more to show than what is already on the card.

Cards showing pictures open a full-screen picture viewer instead.

A few parts of a card are their own tap targets: a service-alert banner on a train board opens that alert’s full text, and a story row in a news card opens that story.

Inside a full-screen view

• Swipe left — next item.
• Swipe right — previous item.
• Tap — close the view, or follow a row deeper (a story, an alert).

An untouched view closes on its own within about a minute and the board returns to the dashboard. The exception is the picture viewer, which stays until tapped.

The “+N” in a card’s corner

That small count means the card fetched more than fits at its current size — “+3” on the Markets card means three more tickers than it has room for. Tap the card to see everything, or make the card bigger.

News stories on your phone

Open a story from any news card and the full-screen view includes a QR code — scan it to keep reading on your phone.

The QR simply takes you to the story on the outlet’s own site. If the outlet is paywalled, its paywall applies as usual — the code doesn’t bypass it.