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Installing it like an app
Anyone - including people who only hold a link and never sign in.
What this is
Clarity Resource installs from the browser onto Windows, macOS, iPhone, iPad and Android. There is nothing to download and no installer - it is the same planner in its own window, with its own icon.
It offers itself. When your browser can install it and it isn't installed yet, a green banner under the bar says Install Clarity Resource as an app, with a big Install the app button - press it, then press Install in the box your browser shows. On a PC that is two clicks. Not ready? Not now hides it for 30 days. It is the same way of installing as every other Clarity app.
Then pin it. Windows doesn't let any website put itself on the taskbar, so Clarity Resource tells you the one step left: right-click its icon and choose Pin to taskbar (Edge offers a tick box for it as it installs).
Install it from a personal link and the app opens straight onto that person's plan, not the sign-in page. Personal links offer the install on phones too, because that is where site teams open them.
When a new version is released the app tells you: a dark bar across the top says A new version is ready, with a Reload button. It never swaps versions underneath you in the middle of a change.
An installed planner opens without signal, showing the last plan it loaded. When you are looking at a saved copy rather than the live plan, a yellow bar says so and gives the time it was saved, so an old roster is never mistaken for today's.
Look for this icon. Once installed, this is the planner — on your taskbar, desktop, Start menu, Mac Dock or phone home screen, named Clarity Resource. Three people, each with the days they are booked: who is where.
Install it now
Which browser?
- Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome on Windows or a Mac — the full experience, and the easiest to install. Edge can also pin it to the taskbar for you as it installs.
- Safari on a Mac — installs too, as an app in the Dock.
- Firefox cannot install a site as an app. Open the planner in Edge or Chrome instead.
- On a phone or tablet — open your personal link and add it to the home screen. It opens straight onto your own plan.
Microsoft Edge
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Open the planner in Edge. Then click the App available icon at the right-hand end of the address bar. (Or open the … menu → Apps → Install this site as an app.)
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Press Install in the box that appears.
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Tick “Pin to taskbar” in the next box, then press Allow. Tick “Create desktop shortcut” too if you want an icon on your desktop. That’s it.
Google Chrome
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Open the planner in Chrome. Then click the install icon at the right-hand end of the address bar — a small screen with a down arrow. (Or open the ⋮ menu → Cast, save and share → Install page as app.)
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Press Install in the box that appears. The app opens straight away in its own window, and goes into your Start menu.
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Pin it to your taskbar: right-click the app’s icon in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and choose Pin to taskbar — see below.
Safari on a Mac
Open the planner in Safari.
From the menu bar choose File → Add to Dock, then press Add.
It opens in its own window and its icon stays in the Dock. (In Chrome or Edge on a Mac, follow their steps above instead.)
iPhone, iPad or Android phone
Open your personal link — the one in the email headed “your live site plan link” — on the phone.
iPhone or iPad: tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen, then Add.
Android: tap Install the app on the card at the top of the page, or open the ⋮ menu → Install app.
The app opens straight onto your own plan — no signing in.
Pin it to your taskbar
Windows lets only you put a program on the taskbar — no website or program can do it for itself — so this is the one step to do by hand. With the app open:
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Right-click the app’s icon in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
Choose “Pin to taskbar”. The icon now stays there when the app is closed, so it is one click to open.
On a Mac: right-click the app’s icon in the Dock → Options → Keep in Dock.
What it looks like
Start to finish
- Open Clarity Resource, or your personal link, in Chrome or Edge (Safari on an iPhone, iPad or Mac).
- Press Install the app on the green banner, then Install in the box the browser shows.
- On a PC, pin it to the taskbar: right-click its icon, Pin to taskbar.
- Open it from the taskbar, desktop or home screen from then on.
- Press Reload when a new version is announced.
How to
- Windows or Mac - Chrome or Edge: press Install the app on the green banner. No banner? Click the install icon at the right-hand end of the address bar.
- Pin it to the taskbar: right-click the app's icon in the taskbar, then Pin to taskbar. On a Mac: right-click it in the Dock, Options, Keep in Dock.
- Mac - Safari: File, then Add to Dock.
- iPhone or iPad - Safari: the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
- Android - Chrome: Install the app on the green banner, or the menu, then Install app.
- Firefox: it can't install web apps - open Clarity Resource in Chrome or Edge.
- Update it: press Reload on the dark bar. Nothing is lost - every change is saved as you make it.
- Without signal: it opens anyway, with the yellow bar. Changes need a connection.