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marcandClaude Opus 5 3b7958b713 A chapter with an order of its own
A chapter orders its own notes now, chosen in the same dialog as its name,
mark and colour -- one decision about one thing. The notebook's setting
governs the notebook's own list; a chapter is a place someone made and
filled, so a reference chapter can stay alphabetical while the notebook
around it stays as it was arranged. It starts hand-made, and a chapter put
in one of the other orders loses its lines and its handles exactly as the
notebook does: neither means anything against an order the app is choosing.

A line still would not go under another line, and the comparator was only
half of it. The write was then thrown away by the "did anything change?"
test, which sorted the separators before comparing them -- to ignore the
other chapters' lines riding along in the same field -- and a sorted
comparison cannot see a sequence. Two lines in one gap carry the same
position, so swapping them changes nothing else. It compares this list's own
lines, in order.

An open chapter swelled while rearranging: the strips at the two ends of its
list stood open for the whole of the mode, adding half a finger of empty
space inside every chapter. They are thin now, and only there while
something is actually being carried -- which is also why the suite presses
first and aims afterwards.

Server: sort_mode on chapters, validated against the same five modes as a
notebook's, and set outside the COALESCE so null means the hand-made order
rather than "leave it alone".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 16:45:05 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 f1d3e38f8f Marks, lines, and a table that breaks
A long table lay straight across the gap between two sheets with a row
cut in half, and a shorter one jumped to the next sheet whole leaving
the rest of the first blank. Tables are broken between their rows now,
which is where a table breaks on paper. The spacer there is a tr with
one borderless cell: a div inside a tbody is not something the browser
keeps. Its own spacer rows are subtracted again on the next measurement
and counted into the shift every block below inherits — miss that and
everything under a broken table is measured a page too high.

A dialog closed in the middle of an edit if a selection was dragged past
its edge: the click lands on the nearest common ancestor of press and
release, which is the backdrop, and every dialog read that as "clicked
beside me". They remember where the press began now. All ten.

A note and a chapter can wear a mark of their own beside the name,
chosen from a short list searched by what a thing is for rather than
from the system emoji keyboard — a different thing on every machine, and
three thousand pictures for a decision that is "which of these is the
invoice notebook". A separator takes its own colour and one of five
shapes, and a chapter can be divided like the notebook it sits in: both
places a chapter is shown draw it with one component now, so it cannot
be divisible in the column and not in the unfolded block.

Also: a chapter's colour could not be cleared, because the update rode
on COALESCE and null there means "leave it alone". A table's header row
is legible on the dark theme. Three entries in the table's own menu were
still German. Opening a notebook opens its first note, on a wide screen
only — on a phone the list is the screen.

Fourteen suites green: 364 browser checks, 241 unit tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 23:23:16 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 d74fea4905 Chapters as rows, in two views, in their own colours
Three things Marc asked for, and one of them turned out to be the hinge
the other two hang from.

**A chapter is a row like any other.** Same grip, same drag, same place
in a hand-made arrangement as a note or a separator. That needed notes
and chapters numbered from *one* counter: numbered separately they are
two sequences that cannot be interleaved again, and a chapter dragged
between two notes springs back to the top. Positions therefore have to be
named rather than read off an array index, so POST /notes/reorder now
takes `positions: [{id, order}]` beside the older `ids`, and chapters
have a reorder route of their own.

**Two ways for a chapter to open**, chosen per account beside the
typeface, for the same reason that one lives there: it is a choice about
how your own notes are laid out and it should follow you to the phone.
Beside the list, its notes in a further column the way OneNote lays out
pages — the notebook's own list carrying on to the left, chapter rows and
all. Or unfolded under the chapter's own row, indented against a rule in
its colour. A phone has room for neither and fills the list instead, with
a way back, which is what it did before there was a choice.

**Its own colour**, from eight named ones rather than the full palette:
the point of chapters is that they are different places, and twenty
near-identical blues do not help anyone tell them apart.

The colour is validated on the way in — it is written by a browser, so
only a plain #rrggbb gets through and anything else becomes no colour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 14:20:14 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 1757ec9af3 Chapters: folders inside a notebook
A note is in exactly one chapter, or in none — which means the notebook
itself. Chapters sit above the loose notes; tapping one opens its own
list and the menu button becomes the way back out, which on a phone is
the only way, since the list fills the screen.

A chapter is not a wastebasket. Removing one never removes what it held:
the notes come back to the notebook, where they can be seen and filed
again. That is ON DELETE SET NULL, and it is also written out in the
delete route, because it is the promise the whole thing rests on and
should be visible where it happens rather than inferred from a schema.
The dialog says so too, with the number of notes affected, and the suite
removes a chapter holding three notes and asks the server for all three.

Three rules keep the two levels honest. A note filed into a chapter
leaves the notebook's own list, or filing it would appear to do nothing.
A chapter belongs to its notebook, so the server refuses to file a note
into a chapter of a book it is not in, and moving a note to another
notebook clears its chapter. And separators belong to the list they were
drawn in: a separator's order counts the notes before it, which means
nothing across lists.

Two bugs found while building it, both a day old and both affecting the
desktop rather than the phone they were written for:

- A submenu was clipped away. The context menu had been given
  `overflow-y: auto`, which cuts off anything flying out sideways — so
  the notebooks under "Move to..." were invisible and every click on them
  landed on the note list behind. The side was inverted too:
  `right: 100%` places a panel on the left.
- A separator was a one-pixel hairline in the border colour with faint
  grey text on near-black. Present, and on a phone effectively invisible.

And one test that never measured what it claimed. It asked whether a
dragged note had become "the most recently changed" by reading the order
on screen — but three notes made seconds apart share an `updated_at`
second, so that order is a tie broken arbitrarily. It passed on luck for
weeks and fell over on a run a fraction faster. It now compares the
timestamps themselves, before and after the drag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 13:04:18 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 8ca1ed6e06 Choose a cover in two parts, and let the app be installed
A cover is a colour *and* a pattern now, chosen in turn. Offering every
combination as its own entry meant fifteen colours times a dozen patterns
in a grid nobody could take in — and in practice only the handful someone
had thought to write out. Each pattern is previewed over the colour in
hand, so what is on screen is the cover as it will be. `cover_pattern` is
its own column: they are two decisions, and folding them into one number
would mean renumbering every cover the day a pattern is added.

For one day the patterns *were* twelve appended entries. Those indices
are read back as the colour-and-pattern pair they were drawn as, so
nothing chosen then looks different now.

And three separate reasons the install button never appeared, none of
them in anyone's configuration:

- `beforeinstallprompt` fires once, early — usually before React has
  mounted — and is never fired again. A listener added from inside a
  component simply missed it. It is caught at the top of index.html now.
- A `<link rel="manifest">` is fetched with credentials omitted unless it
  says otherwise. Behind a reverse proxy that authenticates in front of
  the app, that one request comes back as the proxy's login page and the
  browser reads it as an invalid manifest — while the app itself works
  perfectly, because its own requests carry the cookie.
- The service worker cached whatever came back, so a lapsed session could
  be stored as the application itself. The app would then "work offline"
  by showing a login screen it could never get past, curable only by
  clearing the site's data. Only successful, unredirected responses are
  cached now, and the cache name is bumped to drop anything already
  stored under the old rules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 02:20:37 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 9e4677c70b Patterns on the covers, a search box that is simply there, roomier margin notes
Four small things about the shape of the app.

Covers can be patterns as well as colours — ruled paper, graph paper,
pinstripe, bands, dots, cross-hatch, linen, washes, a ledger — drawn
entirely with CSS gradient layers. No image files, nothing to upload,
crisp at any size, and offline like everything else. A cover is stored as
an index into that list, so the new ones are appended and never inserted:
renumbering would silently repaint every notebook anyone already has.

Two things the patterns taught. One idea per cover: two crossed diagonals
meant as a chevron came out as noisy plaid at the size a cover is
actually read, and were replaced with plain bands. And the grid has to
scroll — with 27 covers the dialog ran past the bottom of a laptop screen
and took the Create button with it, which a check now holds at 1440x800.

The search box in a notebook is simply there now, and the button that
used to open it is gone. A magnifying glass cost a click and having to
remember that searching was possible at all; a search box is one line and
says for itself what it does.

Margin notes went from 208x74 to 288x112 — from three short lines to
about five. Three lines is a caption, not a remark on a passage, and the
space beside the page was sitting mostly empty.

And the notebook edit dialog was still part German, and would not say
what the server's default number of versions actually is. It names it
now, read from the server rather than written into the interface: it is
set with MAX_VERSIONS_PER_NOTE, and a hardcoded "50" would quietly start
lying the day that changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 00:29:00 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 fed53772aa Set the note left, count its pages, choose its typeface, align its text
The column sat in the middle, so it moved as the window was resized and the
start of every line landed somewhere new. It is against the margin now.

The toolbar counts pages in the words the PDF reader uses, with a hairline where
each ends. Pages are drawn, never stored: the note stays one document, Markdown
has no page, and a check asserts none reaches the stored body. The current page
is the one under the middle of the window — measuring from the top claimed "page
1" while you stood at the foot of a two-page note, because a window is shorter
than a page.

The typeface is a per-account setting rather than a per-browser one, because a
choice about how your own notes are set should follow you to the phone. The
server takes serif, sans or mono and drops anything else; that column is written
by a browser, so it is an input like any other.

Alignment is a small extension of our own — one attribute, a parse rule, a render
rule — so the schema every stored note is validated against stays in files this
project owns. Markdown has no alignment: what CommonMark allows is embedded HTML,
so non-left blocks travel as `<div align="…">`, the one form most readers still
honour, and the importer puts it back on the paragraphs. Left is never written.

The full run caught a crash I had put in: PdfWorkspace used `noteFont` without
taking it as a prop, which the build cannot see and the type checker does not
reach in .jsx. It killed the notes panel beside a PDF, and `offline` failed with
it because the whole app was broken.

224 unit tests, 263 browser checks across twelve suites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 17:17:13 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 2cee00e38e Fix a permanent black line in the note list, and add separators
The drop indicator was a `borderTop` set in the same style object as a `border`
shorthand. Clearing the longhand resets its width and colour to the defaults
while the shorthand's `solid` stays, so a row kept a 2px black line for good —
measured at rest, before any drag. It is now its own element, which also stops
the list twitching as a row grows and shrinks by a pixel.

That element then turned out to be a dead strip of its own: it pushes the row
down as it appears, so the pointer ended up over the line rather than over the
row and releasing there dropped on nothing. The drag handlers moved to the whole
row and the indicator no longer takes pointer events. A strip below the last row
means "put it at the end", which otherwise needs a drop onto the final note.

Separators are lines drawn between notes, optionally named, stored on the
notebook beside its sort mode. They drag like notes do, and their position is
"how many notes come before me", so they hold their place as the notes around
them are renamed or edited. Shown only in the manual order — in "newest first"
the notes would slide past the line on every edit.

"All Notes" and "Starred" no longer offer a hand-made order: they are questions
asked of every notebook, so there is nothing for an arrangement to belong to.

199 unit tests, 190 browser checks across eleven suites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 01:45:38 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 0a0864c58b Sort a notebook, import Markdown back, and stop the page shrinking in Draw
The paper measurably shrank on switching to Draw — 733px to 460px on the same
screen. The editor was a flex item at its default `flex: 0 1 auto`, so its width
was its widest row's: the toolbar. Swapping a dozen formatting buttons for six
drawing ones collapsed it. It now fills the pane, so the width is a property of
the window.

Each notebook remembers how its notes are ordered, on the server rather than per
device. The manual order has to survive being looked away from, so `reindex`
renumbers every note in the notebook rather than the filtered view, and dragging
is switched off while a search narrows the list. Reordering has its own route:
`PUT /notes/:id` would bump `updated_at` and snapshot a version, so a drag would
move a note to the top of "last changed" and spend a slot of its history.

Markdown and our own ZIP archives come back as notes, with their images
re-uploaded as attachments. A drawing returns as the PNG it was exported as —
vectors are not recoverable from pixels — and the import says so rather than
leaving it to be discovered. Writing the parser turned up a real bug in the
exporter: blocks were emitted with no blank line between them, so a list after a
list became one list and a quote after an item was read as part of it.

Creating or importing from "All Notes" now asks which notebook instead of
silently taking the first one. The web-link prompt is a real dialog: a bare
domain becomes https, javascript: is refused with a reason. The PDF viewer's
hide-drawing control is a labelled button rather than a filled-or-hollow dot,
and the export icon points down into a tray like every other download.

186 unit tests, 179 browser checks across eleven suites, including a new
`offline` suite that loads the app cold with the network off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 01:38:03 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 3acb8b66a4 Free unused attachments, and keep versions by count rather than by age
Two rules governed version retention: the newest 50 per note, and a sweep
of anything past 90 days. The second was wrong. The count already bounds
what a note can accumulate, so age only ever deleted history nothing had
replaced — and it bit hardest exactly where history is most wanted, a
note left alone for a quarter of a year losing its whole past for having
done nothing. It is off unless VERSION_RETENTION_DAYS is set.

How many versions to keep is now a notebook's own setting, falling back
to the server default when left empty. A reference notebook can keep
fifty of everything while a scratch one keeps three.

That makes freeing attachments answerable. A picture taken out of a note
cannot be deleted straight away: the versions from before still show it,
and restoring one would find a hole. It is released once no current note
and no kept version refers to it — which, with retention by count, is
when the last version holding it is pushed out.

The server cannot look for itself, bodies being encrypted, so the client
reports a note's attachments on every save as it already does for links,
and a version inherits what the note held when it was snapshotted — by
definition what that version contains.

Two things make it safe rather than merely plausible. Silence is not
"uses nothing": a note written before this existed has no rows, which
looks identical to one with no pictures, so nothing is released for a
user while any of their notes has yet to report — the prefetch that fills
the search index reports for them on its first pass. And an upload has a
row before the note using it does, so recent attachments are left alone.

POST /api/admin/housekeeping runs the sweep on demand.

Caught while testing: the same block of markup had been pasted into the
create-notebook dialog as well, where the state it referenced did not
exist — the dialog crashed on open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 22:22:46 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 2986bcb620 Read imported PDFs in the app
Stage three: the viewer. Drawing on pages comes next.

pdf.js stays out of the bundle everyone downloads — it is larger than the
rest of the application put together, so it is behind a dynamic import and
a session that never opens a PDF never fetches it. Main bundle grew by
8 kB for the viewer shell; the 162 kB library arrives only when needed.
The worker is bundled rather than pulled from a CDN, because a viewer
that stops working during someone else's outage is not one you can rely
on offline.

Two things that only showed up once it ran in a browser:

- pdf.js 6 calls Uint8Array.prototype.toHex, which only very recent
  browsers have. Anything older failed with "n.toHex is not a function",
  which says nothing about the cause. Now on the legacy build, which
  compiles those away — a little larger, and the difference between
  working everywhere and working on this year's browsers.
- nginx has no MIME type for .mjs and served the worker as
  octet-stream, which a browser refuses to run as a module.

Pages are laid out at their true proportions before anything is drawn, so
the scrollbar is honest immediately and a document mixing portrait and
landscape keeps both — the first version scaled every page to the widest
one, which the suite caught by checking the two aspect ratios differ.

Bytes come from the authenticated attachment route and are cached in
IndexedDB. Content-addressed storage means a cached copy can never be
stale, so a document opened once needs no connection again. Verified with
the network switched off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 20:36:04 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 68e184163e Remove public sign-up; accounts are created by an administrator
This is a private instance, so anyone able to reach the login page could
previously give themselves an account. The registration route is gone
rather than hidden, and the login screen no longer hints that accounts
can be made.

Accounts now come from an admin under Account → Administration: create,
delete, and reset a password. Appointing further admins is deliberately
not offered — with one admin it is not needed, and it is the one power
that turns a compromised account into a lost instance.

The first admin comes from INKNOTE_ADMIN_USER / INKNOTE_ADMIN_PASSWORD,
used only when the database has no users, or to choose whom to promote
when an older database has users but no admin. Once an admin exists both
are ignored, so leaving them in .env cannot reset anything.

Two things that would otherwise have been quietly wrong:

- a deleted user's token stayed valid until it expired, because tokens
  are signed rather than stored and there was no session to revoke.
  authMiddleware now checks the account still exists, so an open tab
  stops working the moment the account is deleted.
- deleting an account takes its notes, notebooks, drawings and version
  history with it via ON DELETE CASCADE. Verified: no orphaned rows in
  notes, notebooks, sync_log, attachments or note_versions.

Deletion asks for the username to be typed back, since it destroys data
that version history cannot bring back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:53:08 +02:00
marcandClaude Opus 5 92d525b3ab TipTap editor, version history, search, attachments — and a cleanup
The app is meant to run in daily private use now, so this pass was mostly
about the ways it could quietly lose data.

Reliability and security:
- the server no longer invents a JWT_SECRET or ENCRYPTION_KEY when one is
  missing; it refuses to start. The old fallback silently made every stored
  note unreadable after a restart.
- notes are encrypted with AES-256-GCM (v2:); existing CBC bodies still read.
- login is rate limited and compares against a dummy hash when the user does
  not exist, so timing does not reveal who is registered.
- a server response issued before a local save is never adopted. This had
  already eaten drawing strokes and note links; sync.hasPendingWrites() now
  guards every path that takes a body from the server.

Editor and features:
- TipTap replaces the contenteditable editor: tables, task lists, and links
  to other notes and notebooks, with a backlinks bar on the target.
- content format v2 ({v:2,doc}); v1 {html,tasks} bodies migrate on open.
- version history: the state before each write is snapshotted, coalesced
  into 5-minute windows, 50 versions or 90 days per note.
- full-text search runs in the client, because the server cannot read
  encrypted bodies and a server index would defeat the encryption.
- image attachments are stored by SHA-256 and deduplicated; the client
  fetches them authenticated and caches the blob, so they work offline.
- drawings are vector strokes in a fixed 1200x1600 page space and now look
  the same on every screen (0.0-0.2% deviation across four widths).
- login is by username; existing email accounts migrate automatically.

Operations:
- data lives on host bind mounts, not Docker volumes, so Proxmox Backup
  covers it. Back up .env with it — without ENCRYPTION_KEY the dump is
  unreadable.

Structure:
- NoteApp.jsx is gone. App.jsx now holds only where the user is; note data,
  search, layout, history and drag each live behind a hook, and the four
  panes are stateless.
- the whole data layer is TypeScript, with 81 unit tests concentrated on
  the places that have actually broken.
- fixed along the way: the browser back button had a dead press, because
  restoring a history entry pushed a duplicate one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 17:00:14 +02:00