STRIDE Mobile help
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A short guide to the phone version — what it shows you, and the handful of things you can do with it. It takes about five minutes to read, and then you should not need it again.
This is a small, deliberately plain version of Tasks, built for a phone. It does one job: show you what is due and let you deal with it — tick things off, change a date, add something before you forget it.
It is a separate, dedicated view built for the phone, not a squeezed-down copy. Open
mobile.html to go there. Opening STRIDE on a phone hands you over
automatically — either address does — and signing in normally takes you
to the full desktop experience, which works on a phone but is not built for one.
A link from STRIDE opens what it points at. If an email about a task hands you a link and you open it on your phone, the phone app opens that task — you do not land on your task list and have to go looking for it. Where the link points at a comment, the phone opens the task and says the discussion is not shown here, with one press through to the full task if you want to read it.
These things are not here, on purpose:
They are all on the desktop, working on the same data. Nothing is missing from your account — it is only missing from this screen.
Everything this view writes is a change to one task at a time. That is what makes it safe to have the desktop open at the same time: the two can only ever disagree about a single task you were editing in both, never about your whole list.
Everything lives on one screen. Top to bottom: the menu button, the STRIDE mark and name, then Refresh and Sign out on one bar; the weather card, when it is on; Add; search; and your tasks, grouped by when they are due.
The whole screen. The menu button, the STRIDE mark and name on the left of the top bar, Refresh and Sign out on the right, then the weather card, Add, search, and your tasks grouped by when they are due. A card's own tags, where it has any, are the first labels on it.
The bar itself, left to right:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| ☰ | Opens the menu — Settings, Help and About. |
| The mark and "STRIDE Mobile" | Names the app. It is a link back to this same screen, not a menu of its own. |
| ⟳ | Fetches your tasks again, right now. |
| ⇥ | Signs you out. |
The theme button, the settings gear and the question-mark that used to sit in this bar are gone. Theme, your color and everything else that used to live behind the gear moved into Settings; the question-mark moved into the menu beside it. Nothing behind either one was removed — it is one tap further in, reached the same way as everything else on this screen that is not a header action.
This bar wears the STRIDE mark and the words STRIDE Mobile, always. It is naming the app, not you or your team — your own picture is in the menu, and a team's logo is unaffected everywhere it already appears on the desktop. There is no longer a setting on this screen for what the header wears.
Tap ☰ to open it. Above the three destinations it shows who you are signed in as; below them it stamps the build.
STRIDE Mobile · build 2026.09.13
The menu: who you are signed in as, then Settings, Help and About, with the build stamped at the foot.
Three destinations, and nothing else:
There is no Calendar, Notes or Team here, and there never has been — this app has never shown any of the three, so putting them in a menu would offer a destination it cannot open. Refresh and Sign out are not repeated here either: both are already one tap away, in the bar above, and a second copy of either behind this drawer would be two controls for one job.
The card below the top bar shows the weather for your default city: the temperature, what it is doing, and where. That is all it shows on purpose — it is there to be read on the way past, not to be studied. It is not there at all unless you have weather switched on, with a location saved, on the desktop — an empty strip would push your tasks down for nothing.
Tap it and it opens into today's high and low, the chance of rain, the wind, and an outlook of the next several days. Tap it again to close it. It stays the way you left it on this phone.
Next 24 hours sits inside that opened card. Press it and the forecast unfolds hour by hour — the hour you are in first, marked Now, then each hour ahead with its temperature and its chance of rain. Swipe the row sideways for the later hours, or reach them with the arrow keys. It is closed until you ask for it, and it stays the way you left it on this phone.
How many days you get depends on how wide your phone is. The strip measures the room it actually has and draws what fits legibly rather than a fixed number, so a larger phone and a phone turned sideways show more; it never drops below three. This is the same rule the desktop's weather card follows, so the two do not disagree about the same forecast.
Switching city. Open the card and your saved cities appear as buttons along the bottom. Tap one and the weather changes to it — and stays on it, on every device, because the choice is remembered with your account rather than just on this phone.
Tap Use my location at the bottom of the open card. Your phone asks whether to allow it, and the app then works out which city you are in, adds it and shows its weather straight away — no typing.
That entry is marked with a 📍 and there is only ever one of it: as you travel it updates rather than piling up a new city each time. It also becomes your primary location, so the desktop opens on it too.
If you say no, the app does not keep asking. Allow location for this site in your phone's browser settings if you change your mind. You can always keep using cities added on the desktop instead.
New cities are still added on the desktop — Settings → Weather — where you can search by name. If you switch the weather off there, the line disappears here too.
A reading is kept for twenty minutes, so opening the app repeatedly does not go and ask again each time. The ⟳ button at the top fetches a fresh one immediately. If it cannot reach the weather service it keeps the last reading it had and says when that was, rather than showing you an old number as though it were current.
You see your own tasks, plus tasks on a team board that are assigned to you, or that you own and have chosen to show here. A board task that is neither stays on the board and does not clutter your phone.
Being the assignee is an account, not a name. Somebody picks you from a list when they assign the task, so there is no spelling to get right and nothing to keep in step if your name changes. A task assigned to you always reaches your phone — that is not a preference anybody can switch off.
Two kinds of task never appear:
The match is on your full name as it appears in your account — first name plus last name. If a board task lists you differently ("Bob" instead of "Bob Smith"), it will not reach your phone. Fix the name on the task, or in your account, and it appears at the next refresh.
+ Add task sits at the very top, above everything else. It is a single button until you tap it, so it does not eat a row of screen on every visit.
Tapping + Add task swaps the button for a title box. Add keeps the box open so you can keep typing; the back arrow beside it closes the row and returns you to the list.
A task added this way always starts as Active, due today, with you as the owner. Tap it afterwards to change any of that.
Tasks are grouped by when they are due, soonest first. You never arrange this yourself; changing a due date moves a task between groups.
| Group | What lands in it |
|---|---|
| Overdue | Due before today. The heading is red. |
| No date | Anything with no due date at all. Work nobody has scheduled is a real state, so it gets its own group rather than padding Today. |
| Today | Due today. |
| Tomorrow | Due tomorrow. |
| This Week | Later in the current week. |
| Next Week | The week after. |
| In 2 Weeks | The week after that. |
| Later | Everything further out. |
Weeks run Monday to Sunday for this purpose. An empty group is not shown at all, so a quiet week is a short screen rather than a list of headings with nothing under them.
Undated work has its own group between Overdue and Today, and its cards simply carry no due-date label.
Tap a group heading to fold it away. Your phone remembers which groups you keep folded, so the list opens the way you left it — narrowing to one horizon is two taps (fold the others), rather than one.
Earlier versions of this screen had a row of buttons under Search — Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Next Week — that hid every other group at once. That row is gone. Every one of those four horizons is still here, as the group heading above its own cards, and folding a group is still remembered per phone. What is spent is the one tap that used to hide every OTHER group in a single gesture; what is kept is the grouping itself, unchanged, and search, which still narrows the whole list.
The search box matches on task title, owners and assignee — the assignee by the name shown on the card, so typing a colleague's name finds the work handed to them. It does not look inside descriptions.
Whenever search is narrowing the list, a blue band appears above the board naming what you typed, with a Clear button beside it — so a search that happens to match nothing can never be mistaken for an empty board.
Each card carries a checkbox, a star, its own tags where it has any, a row of small labels, and the title.
Its own tags come first, each with a small colored dot; then blue for the status, gray for the due date (red when it is late), gray again for who it is assigned to, and amber "Board" when the task is also on a team board.
| Tap here | And |
|---|---|
| The checkbox on the left | Marks the task complete. It leaves the list immediately. |
| The star | Stars or unstars it, right away — an outline star becomes a filled gold one. Stars show up on the desktop too. |
| Anywhere else on the card | Opens it for editing. |
The checkbox and the star both take effect at once, without opening anything.
Tapping a card opens it on a screen of its own — not a panel that slides partway up. Cancel sits top left, Edit Task is the title, and Save sits top right and stays there while you scroll, so it is never more than one tap away.
The editor, in field order: title, status, due date (with its clear button, ✕, for No date), owner, assignee, Favorite, tags, description and Delete Task at the foot.
You can change:
There is no row for time and none for priority. A task has a due date, never a time, so there is nothing there to set; and Favorite is already the whole of this application's emphasis on a task, so a second scale beside it would be a second answer to a question this app has already answered.
Save applies every change on the screen at once. Cancel discards all of them — nothing you typed or toggled here is written until you press Save.
A description can hold headings, lists, tables and color. You can edit it here, and the formatting it already carries is kept — you change the words, not the styling.
There is no formatting bar on the phone: a thumb gets the text, and the desktop keeps the tools for adding headings and lists. One thing looks different here on purpose — colored or resized text is drawn in the ordinary text color, because this view deliberately stays small and does not load the desktop's styling. Nothing is lost: the color is still there, and the desktop still shows it.
Pasting brings the words in as plain text, so pasting from a web page cannot drag unexpected formatting into a task.
Delete Task, at the foot of the screen, asks you to confirm and then removes the task permanently — from the desktop and from any board it was on, not just from your phone. There is no undo and no bin.
The app reloads your tasks by itself whenever you come back to it — switching back from another app, unlocking the phone, or returning from another tab. You should not normally have to think about it.
Tap ⟳ at the top when you want to be certain, for instance right after someone tells you they have changed something.
Changes you make here are saved immediately, one task at a time, and show up on the desktop the next time it loads.
Having this open while the desktop is open is fine. Just avoid editing the same task in both at the same moment — the last save wins, as it does anywhere else.
Reached from the menu: tap ☰, then Settings. It is a full screen of its own, with a back arrow at the top left rather than a Close button at the bottom — press it to return to your tasks.
Four sections: Appearance, Accent color, Display and About. Accent color follows your account to any phone or computer you sign in on; the appearance you are looking at right now is remembered for this phone alone, so your phone can be dark at night while your laptop stays light.
Three choices, shown as one control: Light, Dark and System.
Appearance, as a three-way control. Whichever you have chosen is pressed and the other two are not.
System follows this phone's own light/dark setting, and keeps following it: change your phone's own appearance while STRIDE Mobile is open and the app changes with it, without reopening anything. Light and Dark are the same two modes the desktop has; System is a layer on top of them, on this phone only, that decides which of the two to show.
Six colors. Tapping one saves it and switches you onto it in the same gesture — there is no separate Save press and no second step.
Six swatches — Blue, Teal, Purple, Amber, Red and Slate — and Remove my color underneath, shown only once you have picked one.
Show weather is the one row here, and it is the desktop's own weather preference — turning it off on your phone turns the weather card off on the desktop too, because one preference means one answer everywhere. There is no compact or density setting on this screen: this view has never had one, and a preference invented for a Settings screen that nothing else on this page honors would be worse than not offering it.
The app's name and its build, a link back to this manual, and guidance for putting the app on your phone's home screen.
Tapping Add to Home Screen does not add anything by itself — no browser lets a page do that on its own behalf, so it opens a short paragraph naming the exact gesture for your browser instead:
Either way, STRIDE Mobile gets its own icon on your home screen — the STRIDE mark, not a screenshot of this page — and opens without the browser's own address bar around it.
Two settings that used to live on this screen are gone, and on purpose. An App name box used to let this screen call itself anything at all; the app is called STRIDE Mobile now, and that is not something left to configure — the desktop still keeps the old name for its own print footers and CSV exports, it is simply no longer read or written from this screen. A Logo in the header picker used to choose which team's mark this screen's top bar wore; the header wears the STRIDE mark for every reader now, so there is no longer a choice to make here. Neither removal changes a team's own logo anywhere it already appears on the desktop.
⇥ in the top bar signs you out and returns you to the sign-in page. You only need it on a shared device; otherwise staying signed in is the point.
Your name, your picture and your Anthropic API key all live in the desktop's settings.
The application font follows you here. Whatever you chose in Settings → Workspace → Application font on the desktop is what this page is set in, because that choice is kept with your account rather than with a browser. Every one of the ten choices is a typeface your phone already has, so nothing is downloaded for it — this page fetches no fonts at all, on purpose. The one visible difference is Grotesk, and the headings of STRIDE Default: those use a typeface the desktop downloads, so your phone substitutes the closest face it has.
It is complete, not deleted. This view only shows unfinished work, so it left the list. Open the desktop, find it under Completed, and un-tick it.
A board task reaches your phone when it is assigned to you, or when you own it and its owner has chosen to show it in My Tasks. Spelling has nothing to do with it any more: an assignee is an account somebody picked, not a name typed into a box. If a task you expect is missing, open it and check who the Assignee row names — if it is empty, nobody has been assigned it yet.
Into their own No date group, not into Today — work nobody has scheduled is a real state, and padding Today with it made Today mean nothing. Open a task and the clear button beside the due-date field is how you put one there or take it out; pressing it a second time sets the date to today. It is the same No-date behavior as in Tasks and on a team board, in a phone-shaped control.
On the desktop. Notes are not part of the phone view.
No. Tasks you add here are your own. Sharing one onto a board is done on the desktop.
Tap ⟳. If it still looks wrong, pull the page down to reload it properly, and check you have a signal.
That is a connection problem, not a lost-data problem. Nothing has been changed. Tap ⟳ once you are back online.
The full desktop experience is genuinely hard to use on a phone screen, which is why this exists. Use a tablet or a computer for notes, the board, analytics and everything else.
Open the full manual for Tasks, notes and the team board.
