Ten notifications a season, and a cap you can see.
The entire value of a patch is being told what is happening to it. Which makes the notification settings the most important screen in this family, and the easiest one to get wrong in the direction of sending far too much.
Every message a patch can send you.
Ten kinds of message across eleven months. Two of them are on by default across two channels; the marketing one is off and we are not going to quietly change that.
Capped at twelve a season, and nothing between 9pm and 8am — except the combine, which does not consult anybody. The name of this feature is Nagging, which is the promise. If we ever break the cap, the setting is wrong rather than you.
The one exception to the quiet hours.
The combine notification. In a difficult harvest the decision to cut is made at half past five in the morning on the basis of a moisture reading and a forecast, and the machine is in the field by seven.
If we hold that until eight to be polite, the thing people most wanted to watch has already happened. So it goes when it goes, and the setting for it says so plainly rather than hiding inside a general quiet-hours toggle.
Everything else waits. Nothing else on this farm is urgent at six in the morning, including the things the marketing calendar would like to be.
What each channel is actually for.
| Channel | What we send on it | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Push | Everything, if you let it | Free, instant, and easy to turn off. The default for the sequence |
| The substantial ones, with the photographs | Because a tiller count deserves more than forty characters | |
| SMS | Two things only: the combine, and genuine bad news | It costs us money and it interrupts you. That is a high bar |
| Post | Nothing, unless you asked for a printed gift card | We are not sending you a catalogue |
What one member is holding this season.
Placeholder data on a real structure. Swapping in a member record means replacing the arrays, not the layout.
What you hold
Patch B2 — Curdle Hill, winter wheatDrilled 14 October · 25kg of flour Growing Patch D2 — the bridleway hedgeTwenty metres · laid January Counted Foster — one ewe, through lambingFrom January · wool and updates Lambing The Larder BoxMonthly · next dispatch the 3rd Active Patch B5 — durumNot yet drilled · late March WaitingNext through the door
Track itThe year ahead
- Late MarchDurum drilled on Curdle Hill south
- Early MayFlag leaf on B2, and the dearest spray of the year
- Late MayEar count — the number that predicts the yield
- AugustHarvest, and about six hours of notice
- SeptemberFirst flour posting, and the grid reopens
This build takes no payment and holds no member records. Everything on this screen is illustrative.
Being told, questioned.
Three questions about the only screen in this family that can genuinely annoy people.
Yes. Turn every switch off and the patch runs exactly as it would otherwise; you just read the record when you feel like it instead of being told.
No. The SMS channel exists for two events and is not a marketing list, and this build collects nothing that leaves your browser anyway.
Anything that changes what you will receive: a failed establishment, a flea beetle write-off, a drought call, or a harvest that has come in materially short. Sent the same day, not held until it reads better.
Everything you hold, in one place.
Patches, fosters, boxes and casks, with what is next on each.
