The words
Every word in these pages you could not have guessed, in one list.
Read the first group. Come back to the rest when a word catches you out.
Things you build
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| atom | One thing on a screen: a question, a picture, a paragraph, a button. |
| sequence | The thing somebody opens and works through. An ordered set of pages, one on screen at a time, each page holding atoms. |
| journey | The rules that decide who gets what, when, and what happens next. |
| surface | A named strip on the home screen. It decides how things look and where they sit, never what they are. |
| asset | A picture, a video or a sound file, kept in one library for your space. |
Things the platform makes
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| delivery | One person’s copy of one sequence, put on their screen. The journey makes these, not you. |
| occurrence | One due date inside a delivery. A daily check-in has one occurrence a day. |
| response | One answer, saved against one occurrence. |
| score | A number worked out from the answers, using rules you set. |
| band | A name given to a score, like Low or Moderate. Journeys branch on the name. |
People and places
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| participant | The person using the app. |
| coach | Somebody who works with participants and can read their records. The platform's word for the care provider, whoever that is in your service: a nurse, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist, dietitian, navigator or health coach. |
| admin | Somebody who runs a tenancy and can read everything in it. |
| sales | A seat that can fetch a sign-up link and read no participant records at all. |
| tenancy | One customer’s own separate space. Its own people, content, colours and link. |
| cohort | A named group inside a tenancy, with its own sign-up link and its own starting journeys. |
| the portal | The website where you and your team set all this up. |
| the app | What a participant has on their phone. |
| token | A {{ }} marker in your copy that is replaced with something the participant told you earlier. Also called autofill. |
Settings you will meet
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| tracked | Whether an answer shows on the participant’s own Progress page. Defaults to yes. |
| persistent | Whether a finished item stays on the screen with a tick, or leaves. |
| dismissable | Whether somebody can put an item away without answering it. |
| closable | Whether they can back out of something they have opened. Off is the blocking consent screen. |
| revisable | Whether an answer can be changed afterwards. |
| schedule | When something is due. Once, weekly, or every so many days. |
| priority | Where a surface sits down the screen. Lower sits higher. |
| tier | The level of the product a tenancy is on. |
| draft, published, archived | Where a piece of content is in its life. Only published content can be given to anybody. |
Words for the rules
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| node | One step in a journey. It does things when somebody arrives, then chooses where they go. |
| transition | A way out of a node, with the rule that decides whether it is taken. |
| condition | The rule itself. Compares something about the person to a value you set. |
| action | Something a node does on arrival: give them a card, send a message, raise a task. |
| signal | A measure read from the phone: steps, sleep, heart rate and the rest. |
| tag | A label on a person that you set, and that a rule can read. |
| group | A set of people you can hand something to, or write a rule about. |
| extra | A stored value about a person that came from somewhere else. |
One sentence, if you only keep one
A journey creates deliveries. A delivery puts a sequence onto a surface. A sequence is made of atoms.