Glance
A short read of what is overdue in your vault, fetched when you open it. It never polls.
- Home key: g
- Needs: Needs your server
- Source: Your console, /glance
- Offline: Last answer, with its age
Glance asking the server. With an answer, it shows the overdue items; without one, the last answer and its age.
What it does
Glance shows the handful of dated items in your vault that are past due: deadlines, tasks, anything the console counts as overdue. It exists for the moment you pull the device out and want to know whether anything needs you.
Keys
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| g | Ask again. |
How it works
Opening Glance, or pressing g, asks the server through the gate's glance shape. On the server, the gate reads the console's token from a file and fetches /glance from your console with it. The token never reaches the device.
It never polls in the background. A sync refreshes the cache, which is what drives the amber LED and the overdue count on Home's status line.
Needs on the server
A small web service on your server that answers /glance with a few plain text lines about overdue items and accepts a token in a ktoken cookie. PennyOS does not include one; see Working with Obsidian. Point glance_url and console_token_path at it. Without it, Glance has nothing to show.