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 marcandClaude Opus 5
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A filed note stays filed, and the handles are asked for
Three things that all came from chapters being thought through too late. A note put into a chapter came back out of it a few seconds later. The server had it right the whole time; every sync rebuilds the local copy from the server's answer, and the function doing that never carried chapter_id — so each sync handed back a note belonging to no chapter and the notebook took it in again. The bin's query left the column out too, which would have unfiled anything restored from it. A separator drawn in a notebook vanished when a chapter was opened. "Which chapter is open" and "which list is on screen" were one value. Opened beside or below, the list still shows the notebook — but everything around it had switched to the chapter, so the notebook's own separators were filtered away and a drag among its rows was measured against the chapter's notes, found nothing, and did nothing. And where a new note lands is now visible and yours to choose: pressing in either place makes it the one being worked in, marked with a line along its top and the word "here", and the + button names it. Rearranging becomes a mode, switched on beside the sort menu — until then no row wears a grip and none can be dragged. Filing a note is back in the row's own menu, where starring and exporting already are; the button that had appeared in every row is gone with its dialog. The account panel closes with Escape. Thirteen suites green: 335 browser checks, 241 unit tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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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> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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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> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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Make the phone work: touch reordering, reachable menus, and nothing lost offline
Four things that were built for a mouse on a desk and quietly did nothing useful on a phone. The last one is the serious one. **A note made offline lost everything written into it.** Its create reached the server, the server named it something else, and every edit still queued behind it went on addressing the name only that device ever knew — 404, five retries, thrown away. The note arrived empty and untitled, with nothing to say that anything had been lost. The database was repointed at the new id all along; the queue was not. It is now, by replacing the id across the whole queued payload rather than in a list of named fields, because a list of fields is a list to forget to add to. The same held for a notebook made offline and everything filed into it. **The order of notes could not be changed on a phone**, because the list went through the HTML5 drag API, which mobile browsers never fire from touch. Pointer events instead, which mouse, pen and finger all produce. A mouse still drags a row from anywhere; a finger drags from a grip, because pressing the row has to go on scrolling and holding it has to go on opening the menu. The row under the finger is found with elementFromPoint — a finger raises no pointerover on anything it did not press. **"Move to..." opened off the side of the screen**, and could not be opened at all without a hover. It is a tap now, unfolding in place where there is no room beside the menu and flipping sides where there is. The menu itself is placed by measuring rather than by assuming it is 220px wide, its rows are tall enough to hit with a thumb, and Escape closes it. **Installing said nothing when it could not be done.** The entry appeared only when the browser had offered a prompt, so where installing was impossible there was no button and no reason. It is always there now and names the cause — most usefully that a browser will only install a site served over HTTPS, which is also why the service worker would not have registered, so one cause was showing up as two mysteries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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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> |
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Take the paper back out, and quiet the surfaces around it
The sheet was not what it wanted to be, so writing is plain text again: about 73 characters to the line, centred, no border and no shadow. The fixed page belongs to the canvas — a stroke has to land in the same place on every screen, which needs one agreed page — so it appears exactly when something is on it or about to be: in Draw, or when the note already has a drawing. The cap lives in the stylesheet rather than on a container, so it holds on a page as well as off one. Emoji are gone from the note rows and the sidebar. They are drawn by the operating system, so they looked different on every machine and were loud enough that a row's picture caught the eye before its title did. Rows are tighter by three pixels of padding. The trash button no longer stands permanently in the danger colour beside the star, which made the most destructive control the loudest thing on screen. It sits behind a divider and turns red under the pointer, when it is about to be used. On a phone the toolbar's fourteen controls scrolled sideways, so the ones at the end could only be reached by dragging the bar and nothing said they were there. Nine remain, plus a menu holding the headings, quote, code and undo. A new `sync` suite proves what was assumed: a PDF written on one device — the document, the drawing and the pinned notes — reaches a second one. Two browser contexts are two devices. Both search suites read a row's title as the second line of its text, which only worked while the icon was itself a text emoji; they read it by name now. 218 unit tests, 249 browser checks across twelve suites. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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Put the interface into English, and give the notebook one way in
The interface had drifted into two languages — the frame in English, everything added later in German — which is worse than either, since the same idea appeared under two names depending on when that part was written. Sorting by title still uses the German collation, so Übung 2 comes before Übung 10: that is about the notes, not the chrome. Two archive folders were renamed with it (bilder/ → images/, zeichnungen/ → drawings/). The importer reads both spellings, and both the old and new marker line for a drawing — archives exported before this are on disk, and an import that quietly dropped their drawings would be the worst kind of tidy-up. Making a note, uploading a PDF and importing Markdown were three buttons side by side, two of them icons you had to hover to identify. They are the same act — putting something new in this notebook — so they are now one + menu. The search box moves out of the sidebar and into the note list, labelled with the notebook it narrows. Nothing changed about what it does: it has always searched only the notebook you are in, but from the sidebar it read as searching everything. A separator no longer carries a sentence explaining the order the sort menu already names. Renaming joins removing on the right-click menu — a left-click on the label started an edit, so the row could not be touched without falling into one. 218 unit tests, 238 browser checks across eleven suites. Two of those caught real breakage from this change rather than needing a translation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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Group the two visibility switches, and put the drawing tools back where they belong
"Zeichnung" and "Randnotizen" are two halves of one question — how much of your own work do you want to see right now — and they sat at opposite ends of the toolbar, each beside the tool that made them. They are now one pair in one shape at the right-hand end. Each still appears only once there is something of its kind to hide, so the pair can be lopsided, which is honest. The drawing tools had drifted past the pin controls as those were added, so switching to Zeichnen made them appear somewhere other than where the eye already was. They follow the button that turns them on again. A separator no longer carries a ×. It sat a few pixels from the label you click to rename, putting the gesture that tidies the list next to the one that destroys part of it — so removal is a right-click behind a confirmation that says the notes are not affected, which is how everything else in that list is acted on. 218 unit tests, 237 browser checks across eleven suites. The toolbar checks compare measured positions rather than presence, since the complaint was about where things were, not whether they existed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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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> |
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marcandClaude Opus 5
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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> |