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      "text": "# Native phone applications\n\n[All project types](../README.md) · [Shared launch](../shared/launch.md)\n\nBuild around life away from the desk. Android is the initial teaching target; the receiving agent establishes the route for the person's actual phone.\n\n## Projects to build\n\n- [Capture photographs for a report on site](photo-report-companion.md)\n- [Workout companion](workout-companion.md)\n- [Capture a spoken thought](voice-capture.md)\n- [Home measurements and replacement parts](home-measurements.md)\n- [Treasure hunt](treasure-hunt.md)\n- [Practice notebook with recordings](practice-notebook.md)\n- [Field notebook for an interest](field-notebook.md)\n- [Personal todo app](personal-todo.md)\n- [Notes that reach the agent's workspace](agent-readable-notes.md)\n- [Chat with your coding agent from your phone](coding-agent-in-your-pocket.md)\n\nThese are instructions for projects you can build with your coding agent.\n"
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      "text": "# Build a field notebook for your particular interest\n\nBuild a native Android application for collecting observations about something the person genuinely enjoys noticing. Build it extremely well for that interest, from making an entry while out to finding it again later. Follow the [shared launch](../shared/launch.md).\n\nBegin with what they notice and what they wish they remembered. It might be birds, interesting buildings, railway stations, street art, fishing spots, or excellent public toilets. Use their interest to decide what belongs in the notebook.\n\n## Record the observation that matters\n\nLet the person make an entry with photographs, location, date, and their own notes. Include the particular details that make the collection useful to them. Someone following street art may care about the artist and whether a work is still there; someone watching birds may record a count and the circumstances of the sighting.\n\nMake initial capture quick enough for the situation. The person can add more detail later when they have time to look closely or consult a reference. Keep what they observed available while names or interpretations are being refined.\n\nPreserve the relationship between a place and an observation made there. Returning to the same location can produce a new observation. Let the person revisit earlier entries alongside the latest observation.\n\n## Use the phone where the interest happens\n\nMake photographs easy to take and inspect, and let the person confirm or adjust a recorded location. They should be able to tell whether a point came from the phone or was placed by them.\n\nKeep entries saved locally through interruptions and unavailable connections. Let the person continue collecting and return to unfinished detail later. Make the important controls readable in the conditions they actually encounter outside.\n\nGive useful names and organization to entries as the collection grows. Let the person use the terms they naturally search for and relate observations that belong together.\n\n## Explore what they have collected\n\nProvide a comfortable list and map of observations, with ways to find material by the details important to this interest. Let the person open a place, inspect its photographs, and return to an earlier visit.\n\nChoose a mapping arrangement suited to the person's use and explain any service limits or downloaded-map behavior that affects it. Their saved observations should remain accessible independently of whether a basemap is currently available.\n\nLet them correct entries, add later information, and export selected material or the collection. Preserve photographs, notes, dates, and useful location information in that export. If they want to share observations, give them a clear choice about which entries and location details they are sharing.\n\n## Take it outside\n\nHandle the Android build and installation, including appropriate camera and location access. Apply the shared launch's ownership and recovery guidance to the collection.\n\nRecord several observations, revisit a place, correct a detail, and find the entries on the map and in the notebook. Try returning to the app after an interruption. Judge whether the information it asks for fits the interest and whether it is comfortable to use while out.\n\nExplain how the person can decide what their software records. Later changes can add details they discover they need, a shared collection, or recognition assistance suited to their interest. Preserve the original observations and photographs as those capabilities develop.\n"
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