Results: tables, charts, maps and other cards

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The cards

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Tables as charts, maps and cards

• Chart when a number column has at least two numbers. A date column draws a line, earliest date first; anything else draws bars in the table’s order. The icons beside it switch to the kinds the numbers fit: a line or an area along dates, a pie for two or three shares, a scatter for two number columns. Numbers in different units, such as a price and a rating, draw one small chart each.
• Map when the table has an Address or Location column, or Latitude and Longitude.
• Cards when it has two to four rows: each row becomes an option, its first column the name.

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How maps are drawn

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Save a result as a file

• The PDF is a report: a cover page with the task, when it ended and in which app, the answer, and a numbered list of what follows; then every card, with tables whose header repeats on each page, charts drawn as vectors so they stay sharp at any zoom, maps with their numbered pins, and the screens behind checks and evidence; then the quotes Mobster read as its sources, and page numbers. It is set in Mobster’s typefaces on Letter pages.
• The image is one card at twice its size, for a message or a slide. Under the card, it carries the Mobster mark and mobster.dev, as a run’s clip does.
• Mobster for Mac makes both on this Mac with macOS’s WebKit, off screen, and saves them to Downloads as <title>.pdf or <title>.png, never overwriting a file. Nothing is uploaded, and no window opens.

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Share a result

1. The dialog shows the page exactly as the link will serve it, and redraws as you change it.
2. Hide names and handles is on: each person the cards name reads as “Person 1”, “Person 2”, in every place they appear. Include screens is off: the iPhone screens behind checks and evidence are left out.
3. Give it a title, and choose when it expires: 1, 7, 30 or 90 days, or never. It’s 30 days unless you choose.
4. Create link uploads the page and copies the link. The dialog lists every link to that result, with Copy link and Turn off.

• Never indexed. Links aren’t listed anywhere. Every answer says X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noarchive, the page carries the same robots meta tag, and robots.txt disallows /s/. A pasted link shows its title and no preview.
• Turn off stops the link at once and deletes its page. An expired link stops at once too, and its page is deleted within a day.
• What’s stored is the page as you previewed it, its title, size and a hash, and when it was made, expires and was turned off (Privacy). Nothing else from the task leaves your Mac.
• Making or turning off a link needs Mobster for Mac signed in to your Mobster account. The page runs no script and loads nothing from anywhere.
• Made with Mobster. The page ends with that line, and “Mobster” links to mobster.dev. The link sends nothing about the page: share pages send no referrer.
• Making a link needs a Mobster plan or a running free trial. Without one, Create link says “Sharing needs a Mobster plan or a running trial”. Listing your links and turning them off work either way.
• Limits. You can keep 200 links and 50 MB of pages live at once. A link that is turned off or expired doesn’t count. At the limit, Create link says to turn some off, or let them expire, and share again.
• Links to other sites are marked. Each link on a shared page to a site other than mobster.dev gets “(leaves mobster.dev for example.com)” after it, opens with rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc", and the page ends with a note: “Shared by a Mobster user. Links marked “leaves mobster.dev” go to other sites.” Mobster adds these when it stores the page, so the page you previewed is the page without them.

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Review queues

1. Read the draft. Edit changes its words on this Mac.
2. A draft with a part in brackets, such as [works / doesn't work], can’t be approved until you fill it in. When Approve can’t start a task, it says why beside it: “Fill in the part in brackets first”, “Write the message first”, or what keeps the phone from a new task, such as “Sam’s iPhone isn’t ready”.
3. Approve starts a new task that sends exactly those words to exactly that person, in that app. In a conversation, the task runs there.
4. Skip sets an item aside. Undo puts it back.

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Where blocks come from

• Long tasks. A long task builds its blocks from what it read: the DM job’s review queue, a table of saved posts, a media list of Reels (Work through a feed or a list).
• An app pack’s reads. When Mobster reads Instagram or TikTok by code, what it read is a card: a table of your DMs, a list of Reels or TikToks with their sounds, your saved posts (What Mobster knows about Instagram and TikTok). These cards come first. An answer table that repeats their rows is left out, so the same rows never show twice.
• The answer itself. When your request asks for several things (“list my last 5 orders”), for checks (“go through each screen and check it”), for a chart, a map, a timeline or a comparison, Mobster asks its model to start with one sentence, then write the things as a Markdown table, one line per check (- [pass] Plans: the price reads $49.99), or one line per event (- 9:00 AM: Leave home). Mobster turns those into a table, a checklist and a timeline, opens the table in the view the request asked for, and the sentence stays the answer. The model never writes a block’s JSON. Copy still copies the whole answer.
• Your scripts. GET /api/runs/{id} has the blocks in the task’s summary.blocks.

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Jobs on the Apps page

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The format

{
  "v": 1,
  "blocks": [
    {"type": "table", "id": "posts", "title": "Saved posts",
     "columns": [{"key": "creator", "label": "Creator", "type": "text"},
                 {"key": "likes", "label": "Likes", "type": "number"}],
     "rows": [{"cells": {"creator": "@noodlelab", "likes": 18200}, "frameId": "f0002"}],
     "sort": {"key": "likes", "dir": "desc"}}
  ]
}