Use cases

A few ways people set up Phosphor. Mix and match: every page is its own.

a minimal focus phone

Fewer things to look at, fewer reasons to open apps.

Make the first page zen: just the clock.
Set motion in fine tune to off, or a quiet one like snow.
Pin only the five apps you need. They fill the dock.
Hide apps you do not want to see under hold, hide from the list.
Add the focus ready page for pomodoro and your todo list, or minimal for a big clock and what plays.

Recipe: a focus timer page

a music setup

A page that is all about what you hear.

The music ready page: the player big, for controls, art and the queue, with cava bars under it.
The radio layout for cliamp stations: lofi, synthwave, chiptunes and more.
Hold the player, let go, and turn on real visualizer so the spectrum follows the music.
Keep now playing on the dashboard for quick control.

Recipe: make a music page

a productivity dashboard

Your day at a glance, and the tools to get through it.

today: your day as a briefing, with next up, weather, inbox and todo.
agenda or a built page with agenda and month.
meeting: the next meeting and how long until it starts.
world clocks for the cities you work with.
notes and calc one swipe away.

Recipe: a work page

a night setup

Easy on the eyes and the battery after dark.

Turn on day and night by the sun: paper by day, phosphor or ice after sunset, by itself.
live weather on, so real rain falls through the empty cells at night.
A quiet background like stars, with frame rate at 30.
Lock screen motion off, and the blue light filter in day and night for the evening.
A dark theme on an OLED phone saves the most.

Recipe: day and night themes · Recipe: a rainy night look

your apps as icons

An app shelf as a 4x1 row of your four most used apps, under the clock.
A 1x4 column at the side of a page, or a 2x2 grid next to the weather.
Labels on, off or auto. Each app is a block with its first letter, lit in your theme.

Recipe: a row of favourite apps

habits and goals

habits: tap a day to mark it, and watch the weeks fill in.
countdown to a trip or a birthday, and progress through the day, week, month and year.
stopwatch with laps, and pomodoro for focus.

Recipe: a habits and focus page

a hacker look

The matrix theme with a cmatrix panel of falling code.
A binary clock and the network panel, like a btop corner.
The pipes or fire background behind it all.
Just for fun: fortune with its cow, a pixel pet and dice.

Recipe: a hacker page

a system monitor

For people who like to see what the phone is doing.

monitor: cpu clocks, memory, storage, battery and network in one place.
battery with the last 24 hours, storage as a map, and fetch.
Bigger monitor panels add traces and boxes, like btop.
network for download and upload speed and the busiest second.

a traveller

weather places with home and where you are going. Tap the weather to switch.
world clocks for both cities.
sky for sunrise, sunset and golden hour.
Or the traveller ready page: world clocks and the forecast in one tap.

Recipe: weather for several cities

a paper look

Not everyone wants glow. The light themes print like ink on paper: paper, chalk, riso and forest. Or one tap: looks, cream and forest or eink paper.

a real old monitor

For the look of a terminal from the eighties.

One tap: looks, green screen.
With pro, set crt to amber or green: the whole home glows in one colour under a gently curved glass. vhs adds a rolling tape.
With pro, pick the c64, c128 or vt320 theme in looks, fine tune, theme.
Add a fetch page for system info, and a matrix panel.

a news and outdoors page

With pro: headlines, where you are and which way is north.

Add a news panel as a ticker tape at the top, with your own RSS or Atom feeds.
Add a gps panel for your position, the satellites and a trail. Set listen with to balanced or low power on a long day.
Add a sensors panel for the level and the compass.
Name the page out with :rename.