Reading your Home page

Home is a single page and the whole of the Alltra Home app. It is a doorway rather than a dashboard: it greets you, gives you a box to ask a question in, opens every other app, and shows a few things worth knowing before you start. No profit figure appears on it anywhere, because every number that matters belongs to the surface that owns it.

Pages

1

App cards

7

Today widgets

7

Three bands, in this order

1. 1The greeting and the composer — who you are, and one field you can type a question into.
2. 2Your apps — a card per app. On Home these are not a shortcut — they are the navigation.
3. 3Today — seven small cards answering what kind of day it is, and where you left off.

Home has no rail, no sidebar and no toolbar

Every other app in Alltra sits inside chrome — the app switcher down the left, a sidebar of that app’s sections, and a toolbar carrying the page title, the date range and the layout controls. Home drops all of it. A sidebar whose only row is the page you are already on is a column pointing at itself, and a toolbar has nothing to title.

What survives is the thin bar across the top, and it keeps the things that belong to your account rather than to a page: the search box (⌘K, or Ctrl+K on Windows) and the Settings button, which opens the quick drawer for theme and accent. The Trading accounts button is the one control deliberately missing here, because the drawer it opens is an app’s roster — brokers for the Tracker, platforms for the Portfolio — and Home is not an app in that sense. That drawer, the account picker inside it and the Demo Mode switch are all one click away in any other app.

To get back to Home from anywhere else, its tile sits at the top of the app rail, or type "Home" into ⌘K.

The greeting

Three bands, by the clock on your own machine: morning until noon, afternoon until six, and evening for everything after that — including the small hours, which for this product is the tail of a session rather than the head of a day. It is read once when the page opens and never on a timer, so the word cannot change under you while you are reading it.

The name is the first name on your profile, taken whole rather than split off a display name. If your profile carries no given name, Home greets nobody — a bare "Good evening" — instead of guessing at one or naming somebody else.

Nothing here is scoped

Home takes no date range and is not narrowed by the account picker, and both are decisions rather than omissions. The Accounts card answers "how many accounts do I have", which the tick-list would turn into "how many did I tick" — a number that drops for no visible reason. The Journals count is all-time for the same reason: a windowed count would say three under the word Journals to somebody who has written four hundred.

When something cannot be read

The Today row is four separate reads, and each is allowed to fail on its own. One that fails costs its own card its figures and nothing else — the rest of the page arrives as normal. That matters more here than elsewhere: Home has no rail, so a page replaced wholesale by an error is no way out of Home.

One read is not optional, and it is the one that identifies you: your saved timezone decides which day a release at half past midnight belongs to, so the week cannot be built without it. If that fails, the page is replaced by a short panel carrying the service’s own sentence, a Reference id, and a Try again button only where trying again could actually work. The Reference is the one thing that ties what you saw to a log line, so it is worth quoting in a ticket.