The suite, rebuilt for the phone in your pocket

The suite reflowed on a small screen without breaking, which is what “responsive” usually means and is not the same as being usable. Reflowing a design drawn for a desk does not make it a design for a phone. It makes a desk-shaped thing that fits.

So every surface has been gone over for the device rather than the width: what a thumb can reach, how much of a 375px screen a control is allowed to eat, what is a desktop nicety that can go, and which figures still need to be readable at arm’s length. That work is not finished, but the layer underneath every screen is, and it lands on all of them at once.

Nine columns on a 375px screen is a horizontal scrollbar inside a vertical list, which is the worst thing on a touchscreen: the list moves sideways when you meant to move it down. Every list in the suite now shows each row as a card on a phone: its name, the marks saying what it owes, and the first few of your columns as facts underneath.

What goes on the card is worked out from what each column already declares about itself, so a list gains nothing to configure and a column added tomorrow lands in the right place on its own. Sorting moved with it: it used to live in the column headings, and a card has none.

No. Nothing is stored differently and nothing needs redoing. This is entirely how the suite draws itself. On a desktop almost none of it applies: the rules are keyed to the pointer and the width, so a mouse and a wide screen get what they always had.

The arrangement of columns you have saved on a list is used on a phone too, rather than being replaced by a guess. The first few you put at the front are the ones that appear on the card.