Home answers one question: does anything need me today?
If the answer is no, it says so and you can put your phone away. That is the screen working, not the screen being empty.
What gets on to it
Only things that need a person, and only things you can actually do something about. Three kinds, and they are ordered:
- Blocked. Nobody can get on until somebody acts. No live season is the plainest one.
- Closing. A deadline is coming. The season ends on Sunday and four matches are unplayed.
- Ready. Something is waiting for you. Somebody has applied to join, a Direct Debit bounced, a score is disputed.
Anything merely interesting stays off. A number that goes up and down is not a job, and a badge nobody can clear teaches people to ignore the screen.
Everything on it can be finished
Every item has somewhere to go and a definite end. Tap it, do the thing, and it leaves.
That is the rule the screen is built on, so a Home with nothing on it really does mean nothing needs you.
Yours is not the same as theirs
You only see what your own job covers. The treasurer sees the bounced payment and the secretary sees the application, and neither sees the other's.
A player sees their own matches and nothing about the club's money at all.
The setting-up list
A new club also gets a short list of what is left to set up. What is left, never what is done, so it shrinks to nothing and goes away.
A checklist that keeps showing ticks is a checklist people read past every morning.
It only ever lists jobs you can do. A treasurer's items are not on the box organiser's list.