Fast pages, offline, and a shared computer
Rookery keeps a copy of the pages you open (your inbox views, Today, Kept, People, Documents, Calendar and the conversations you read) on the device you're using. The next time you go back to one, it shows at once, and Rookery checks with the server behind it. If anything changed, the page updates by itself a moment later.
Without a connection
If your connection drops, Rookery keeps working for reading:
- A line at the top says You're offline. Showing what you last saw.
- Pages you've opened before still open, as they were when you last saw them. Rookery opens even if you close the tab and come back while offline.
- A page you haven't opened yet says it opens when you're back online.
- Changes need a connection. Done, snooze, a note or a reply tried offline changes nothing, and the line at the top says so. Try again when you're back. Nothing is ever sent from your device on its own.
When the connection comes back, the line goes away and pages catch up by themselves.
What's kept, and who can read it
- Only what you've opened, and only what you're allowed to see. Someone else's private inbox is never on your device.
- It's encrypted with a key that stays in this browser and can't be copied out of it. A copy of the browser's files (a backup, another program) can't read it.
- Signing out deletes it, together with any drafts kept on this device. So does someone else signing in on the same browser.
- When who can see an inbox changes (an inbox is made private, or handed to someone else), every copy is thrown away and loaded again.
On a shared computer
On a computer other people use, like a library or a front desk, keep nothing on it:
- Go to Settings → Your account.
- Under This device, turn off Keep a copy on this device.
Pages then load from the server each time, nothing is written to the computer, and Rookery doesn't open offline there. It's set for this browser only: your phone and laptop keep their own setting. Signing out when you're done still matters.