Your phone

Connect your phone to Ducter, get notified only when something needs you, and keep your nights quiet.

On your phone you can do almost everything you do on your Mac: read the conversation, write to your partner, answer decisions, look at On hand, and open a task. Mostly, though, it tells you when something needs you and lets you answer in one tap.

The phone version opens in your phone’s browser. An iPhone app is coming soon.

Connect your phone

Your phone needs an address it can reach from anywhere: Ducter on a server with your own domain (see Install). A zero-setup address with no domain of your own is coming soon.

1. On the computer Ducter lives on, run ducter pair, or choose Connect another device in the Mac app.
2. Scan the QR code with your phone’s camera, or open the link it shows. You can also go to the address and type the Code.
3. The phone says Connected.

The code works once and expires after 10 minutes. After that your phone remembers the connection. To disconnect it, run ducter devices disconnect <name> on the computer Ducter lives on.

Notifications

Right after connecting, Ducter asks: “Shall I notify this phone when something needs you?” Choose Yes, notify me, or Not now and turn them on later under Notifications.

You get a notification only when something waits for you and you haven’t seen it for about half a minute. If several things come up close together, they arrive as one, so your phone doesn’t buzz over and over.

• Results don’t notify you by default. Turn on Also tell me when something’s done if you want them.
• Send a test checks that notifications reach this phone.
• Stop notifications turns them off for this phone.
• On Android, you can answer with Go or Hold straight from the notification. On iPhone, tapping it opens the decision.

On iPhone

iPhone shows notifications from a web app only once it’s on your Home Screen (iOS 16.4 or later). In Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, and open Ducter from the Home Screen icon from then on. Ducter reminds you of this when it matters.

Quiet hours

From 23:00 to 08:00, in your phone’s time zone, Ducter doesn’t notify you at all. Nothing breaks through. When quiet hours end, you get at most one notification about what waited overnight.

Your tasks keep working through the night; only the notifications wait. A decision that can be undone still goes ahead with its default if you don’t answer in time, and you’ll see Went with the default on it. Anything that can’t be undone waits for you.

To change the hours or turn them off, open Partner and use Quiet hours (see Your partner and settings).