Desk and Overview text is easier to read

What changed for people using Bellwether

• A session's decisions are cards. On Desk, each thing a session decided is a small card with the name, the order and where the order stands now. An idea it passed on or is still waiting on says why not in one plain sentence. What the agent wrote in its own words stays one click behind, as before.
• Price levels are rows. Each price level a session set up for next time is a row: the name, when and then. Then is what follows: the level wakes the Portfolio Manager for a look, or the Portfolio Manager acts on it at its next session, with the stop beside it.
• The answer comes first. An open session reads in one order at every width: what it decided, what it set up, the second opinion, then what it looked at. The list of what it read is last and quieter, because it is the evidence and not the answer.
• Three strengths of text, each with a job. On Desk and on Bellwether's mind, what the desk states, decides or gives as its reason is full-strength text at one size. Notes that Bellwether adds around it are one step quieter and never smaller than the small text size. Gray is kept for short labels such as times and counts.
• Bellwether's mind uses its card. Each column of the mind card keeps one comfortable line length, so every line in a column ends at one edge. The sentence that says who the Critic is now sits under its heading, where a newcomer reads it.

What you may notice

• On Desk, the session you opened is the brightest row in the list of sessions.
• The line under the list that says what is still to come today uses the list's full width.
• On a wide screen an agent's status line stays on one line.
• The small orange label on a proposal the Critic sent to you is easier to read.
• On a phone each Why not label sits on its own line above its sentence.
• A new book's first message on the mind card is one column.
• Help's article about reading the Desk describes the cards, the rows and the order as built.
• Nothing in this release changes what the desk buys or sells.

Switched on

• Nothing is switched on or off by this release.

Known gaps and what’s next

• The agents' settings pages, research coverage and the symbol page keep their quieter sentences. They are next in line for the same treatment.
• The Critic's card still offers seven actions. A later release trims it.