The Tower
This page introduces the Tower: what it is, how to open it, and where to find each part of it.
What the Tower is
The Tower is NoticeOS's web app: the screens you open in a browser to see how your sites are doing and to act on them. Once an installation is running, it is at the address setup printed, http://127.0.0.1:5173/ by default. It works on a laptop, a phone and a TV.
It has two parts:
- The Tower's pages are the pages with a sidebar, where you read, decide and change things.
- The Wall is the TV view at
/wall: one screen with no controls, made to be read across a room. You arrange it from the Tower's pages. See The Wall.
Both show the same data from the same installation.
The pages
The sidebar lists the pages in the order you are likely to need them. Which pages it lists follows your view, chosen on Home's first run or in Settings → General → Your view:
- I run the business: Home, Sites, Tasks, Money and Settings.
- I build the product: Home, Sites, Alerts, Tasks, Money, System health, Integrations and Settings.
- Everything: every page in the table below.
A page the sidebar leaves out still opens from Search (⌘K), which lists every page in every view, and from any link to it.
| Page | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Home | How the business is doing, what is broken and what needs your attention. The Tower opens here. |
| Workflows | What NoticeOS runs on its own, on what schedule, and how each run went. |
| Sites | Which sites need your attention. Each site also has its own page. |
| Alerts | What needs attention right now, and how serious it is. |
| Tasks | How big the work queue is, and which tasks in it are waiting for you. |
| Agents | What your agents did and how fast they closed tasks. |
| Money | The month's net, and where the money comes from and goes. |
| System health | Whether NoticeOS itself is working: each source's collection, the scheduled jobs, expiring credentials and data spend. |
| Integrations | Which provider accounts are connected, and how to connect another. |
| Settings | The settings that apply to the whole installation. |
At the bottom of the sidebar, TV dashboard opens the Wall, and the pencil beside it opens the Wall's layout editor. On a phone the sidebar is hidden behind the menu button. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K), or the sidebar's Search, to jump to any page, site or task by name. Its Views group lists Switch to · <view> for the two views you are not in.
A site's own page
A site is one website or product you added. Its name on Home or Sites opens its own page, with tabs: Overview, Growth, Money, Search, Codebase, Health, Alerts, Tasks, Activity, Data sources and Settings; your view decides which of them are shown. Most of what concerns one site happens there: you connect its data on Data sources, log a change on Activity and rename it on Settings. See Sites.
How to read a page
Every page starts with a one-line summary, such as 2 open alerts, both warnings, and the detail follows. A few marks mean the same thing on every page:
- unknown, or a dash you can hover for the reason: there is not enough data for a figure. NoticeOS never shows a missing number as zero.
- A hollow point: a day still being counted.
- est.: an estimate not yet matched to a payment or receipt.
- A dashed line: a projection or a comparison, never a measurement.
The other pages in this section each describe one screen in the same three parts: What you see, What you can do, and States and labels, the words a screen shows when something is missing or not ready yet.
Who can open it
A standalone installation has no sign-in: anyone who can reach the Tower's address can read and change everything in it. Keep it on a private network, behind a VPN, or behind an access proxy of your own.