The app and notifications

Scytian is a web application. There is nothing to download from a store. It opens at one address, on a computer, a tablet or a phone, with the same account and the same data everywhere.

Putting it on a phone or a desktop

Open the address in the browser and add it to the home screen. From then on it opens full screen without browser bars, keeps you signed in, and can send notifications. On a computer it installs the same way and keeps its own window.

Turning notifications on

Notifications are off until someone turns them on, once per device, in the settings. The browser asks for permission and you confirm it.

Each device is remembered separately. A phone and a laptop can both be on, or only the phone, and turning one off leaves the other running.

On an iPhone, Apple delivers notifications only to a web app that has been added to the home screen. Left in a browser tab, they never arrive.

What actually sends one

Two things, and nothing else.

An agent needs an answer. A step is irreversible and the plan says a named person decides it. The notification carries the question. See Three ways out.

A report is ready. The Monday numbers, a check you asked for, a finished measurement. See Reports and questions.

There is no notification per run, no alert when something went fine and no daily digest. A process that works is silent. That is the point of it.

What happens when you tap one

The notification opens the exact place, the conversation or the waiting item, not the front page of the app. A newer notification about the same thing replaces the older one instead of stacking, so a busy morning does not leave a pile to clear.

The inbox

Questions and reports collect in one list, and it is the only place where something waits for you.

A question carries the buttons that decide it and the facts the decision needs, so it can be answered without opening anything else. A report can be turned into a conversation with the agent with one tap, which is how you ask why a number looks the way it does.

What is waiting is never buried in a chat. The platform puts it there, not the agent.

Offline and updates

The app itself is cached so it opens instantly, but everything about your work comes from the network each time. Runs, reports and conversations are not stored on the phone, so a lost phone carries no company data.

Updates arrive on their own when the app opens. There is nothing to reinstall and no version to keep an eye on.