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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 df279a5d36 Replace unused vector clocks with a conflict check that works, drop the rest
The vector clocks in the server were never reached: no client sent one,
so the branch was dead and every write was a blind overwrite. Not "the
newer edit wins" — "the request that arrives last wins", which is worse:
a phone that was offline all day buries the laptop's newer work simply by
reconnecting late.

Each write now carries baseUpdatedAt, the revision it was written on top
of. If the note has moved on since, the incoming edit still wins — a
rejection would throw away what was just typed — but the state it
replaces is kept as a version marked "conflict", so both exist and the
history is where you choose. Clocks could have told a real conflict from
a device catching up, but that precision only pays off with a merge
interface, and this reuses the version history already built.

adoptRevision() stores the revision the server reports back, or the
second save in a row would be flagged as conflicting with the first.

Also removed, as agreed:
- POST /api/notes/pdf — accepted PDFs that nothing could ever read back,
  with no retrieval route and no viewer. The readme advertised "PDF
  Import & Annotation"; that claim is gone too.
- POST /api/sync — a batch endpoint the client never called.
- the tags column — notebooks, starring and search already cover it.

Columns on existing databases are left in place. Dropping them buys
nothing and is not worth touching a live database for.

Tables now have a right-click menu (editor/tableMenu.js) for rows,
columns, header and merging. It needs stopPropagation: without it the
same event reaches window, where the menu that is mounting reads it as a
click elsewhere and closes instantly — the reason the other context menus
in App.jsx already do this.

92 browser checks across seven suites, 125 unit tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 18:59:08 +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