InkNote/CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

What changed, newest first. One entry per round that went out as an image, with
the digests, so it stays possible to tell what is actually running on the server.

Digests are recorded from the registry (`docker buildx imagetools inspect`),
not from the output of `docker push`.

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## Unreleased

**Added**
- **Chapters — folders inside a notebook.** A note is in one or in none; tapping
  a chapter opens its own list, with a way back out. Removing a chapter never
  removes what it held: the notes come back to the notebook, and the dialog says
  so with the number affected. Separators now belong to the list they were drawn
  in, so a line drawn in one chapter does not appear in another.

**Changed**
- **A notebook's design is its own.** A 45-degree stripe texture was baked into
  every cover at 1.5% white — meant to be imperceptible, visibly banding on the
  darker gradients, and a second pattern fighting the one actually chosen. And
  the same pair of rings sat in the middle of every notebook. The mark belongs
  to the design now, and the designs whose pattern already fills the face wear
  none.

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

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## 2026-08-12 — Two-part covers, and an app that can be installed

**Images** — web `sha256:1217b81b…`, server `sha256:3303d3dc…`

The server image changed: it takes a `cover_pattern` column, added on start.

**Changed**
- **A cover is now a colour and a pattern, chosen in turn**, rather than a list
  with the combinations someone happened to write out. Every combination is
  available, and each pattern is previewed over the colour in hand. Covers saved
  during the day the patterns were one list are read back as the pair they were
  drawn as, so nothing repaints itself.

**Fixed**
- **The install button never appeared, even over HTTPS.** Two causes, both in
  this app rather than in anyone's configuration:
  - `beforeinstallprompt` fires once, early — usually before React has mounted —
    and is never fired again, so a listener added from inside a component simply
    missed it. It is caught at the top of `index.html` now.
  - The manifest is fetched **without credentials** unless the link says
    otherwise. Behind a reverse proxy that authenticates in front of the app,
    that 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 link now says
    `crossorigin="use-credentials"`.
- **The service worker could cache a proxy's login page as the application.**
  Nothing checked that a response was the thing that had been asked for, so a
  lapsed session could be stored as the app shell: it then "worked offline" by
  showing a login screen it could never get past, curable only by clearing the
  site's data by hand. Redirected and unsuccessful responses are no longer
  cached, and the cache name is bumped so anything already stored under the old
  rules is dropped.

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## 2026-08-12 — Making the phone work

**Images** — web `sha256:5ea846f3…`, server unchanged at `sha256:06f94f43…`

**Fixed**
- **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 knew — a 404, five
  retries, then thrown away. The note arrived empty and untitled with no sign
  anything had been lost. The queue is now repointed along with the database.
  The same held for a notebook made offline.
- **The order of notes could not be changed on a phone.** The list used the
  HTML5 drag API, which mobile browsers never fire from touch. It uses pointer
  events now, and every row has a grip: pressing the row itself still scrolls,
  and holding it still opens the menu.
- **"Move to…" opened off the side of the screen** and could not be opened at
  all with a finger. It was pinned to the right of the menu and reacted only to
  hover. It now opens on a tap, unfolds in place on a narrow screen, and flips
  to the other side on a wide one when there is no room.
- The menu itself is placed by measuring rather than by assuming it is 220px
  wide, so it can no longer hang off an edge; rows are tall enough to hit with a
  thumb, and Escape closes it.

**Changed**
- **The install entry is always there.** It used to appear only when the browser
  offered a prompt, so where installing was impossible there was nothing on
  screen at all — no button, no reason. It now says which of the fixable causes
  applies: served over plain HTTP, or a browser that wants to be asked through
  its own menu.

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## 2026-08-12 — Covers, the search box, and room to write in the margin

**Images** — web `sha256:c1222665…`, server `sha256:06f94f43…`

The server image changed: it sends the default number of versions with the
account, so the notebook dialog can name it instead of guessing.

**Added**
- **Patterned notebook covers** — ruled paper, graph paper, pinstripe, bands,
  dots, cross-hatch, linen, washes, a ledger. Drawn entirely in CSS: no image
  files, nothing to upload, crisp at any size, and they work offline like
  everything else. Existing notebooks keep exactly the cover they had; the new
  ones are appended, never inserted.

**Changed**
- **The search box in a notebook is simply there**, and the button that used to
  open it is gone. A magnifying glass cost a click and having to remember that
  searching was possible; the box is one line and says for itself what it does.
- **Margin notes are bigger** — the column went from 208px to 288px and a card
  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.
- The notebook dialog's cover grid scrolls, so the dialog cannot run past the
  bottom of a laptop screen and take the *Create* button with it.

**Fixed**
- The notebook edit dialog was still part German — *"Versionen pro Notiz"*,
  *"Vorgabe"* — and would not say what the server's default actually is. It now
  names it (50), read from the server rather than written into the interface,
  since `MAX_VERSIONS_PER_NOTE` can be changed and a hardcoded number would
  quietly start lying.

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## 2026-08-11 — Margins and a stray placeholder

**Images** — web `sha256:3a181ff3…`, server unchanged at `sha256:0832ee2b…`

**Changed**
- **Narrower margins on the sheet** — the column went from about 73 characters
  to about 80, leaving roughly 8% of the paper as margin either side instead of
  117px of empty page down each edge.

**Fixed**
- **"Start writing..." was printed at the foot of every page with a break after
  it.** The placeholder extension styles `[contenteditable]:empty::before`, and
  the spacer holding a gap open is exactly that — empty, and not editable.

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## 2026-08-11 — Writing on paper

**Images** — web `sha256:b764a9d8…`, server unchanged at `sha256:0832ee2b…`

**Added**
- **You write on paper.** Each page is a sheet of its own, centred, with a gap
  after it — the same way the PDF reader draws its pages. The sheet used to
  appear only once you started drawing, which left the writing mode looking like
  text floating in an empty pane, and made the space either side of the column
  read as a void rather than as a margin.
- Text is broken against those sheets, so no paragraph is ever cut in half by a
  gap. The breaks are decorations: nothing enters the document, reaches the
  server, or appears in an export.

**Fixed**
- **A note with a drawing could not be typed in at all.** The box wrapping each
  page's ink layer lay over the text and swallowed every click meant for it. The
  canvas inside was already deaf to the pointer; its wrapper was not. Introduced
  the same day, with per-page drawing.

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## 2026-08-11 — Drawing on every page, and PDFs findable everywhere

**Images** — web `sha256:dc804f7b…`, server `sha256:0832ee2b…`

The server image changed this round: it takes a new column and two routes.
`docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` — the column is added on start.

**Added**
- **A PDF is searchable on every device, not only on the one that opened it.**
  The device that imports the file reads it there and then — the server still has
  no PDF library and never opens one — and the extracted text is stored beside
  the file, encrypted, so every other device can find the document without ever
  downloading it. This is what makes an archive of scanned invoices work: they
  are filed and then never opened, so waiting for someone to open one meant
  waiting forever.
- **A drawing runs over as many pages as the note has.** The ink used to be stuck
  on page one while the writing carried on without it. Pages are numbered the way
  the PDF reader numbers them, and there is always one blank page past the end to
  start a new one on. The bin clears the page being looked at; undo still works on
  the drawing as a whole.
- A drawing that lives entirely on page one is still stored in the old shape, so
  an ordinary note is written exactly as it always was and an older client still
  shows it.

**Fixed**
- **A drawing exported in a ZIP was lost on re-import.** The exporter has written
  `drawings/<note>.png` since the interface was put into English; the importer
  was still looking for `zeichnungen/<note>.png` and found nothing. Both names
  are read now, and so are the further pages of a drawing.

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## 2026-08-11 — The writing column

**Images** — web `sha256:ed11f034…`, server unchanged at `sha256:1648498f…`

**Changed**
- The note column is centred again. It had been pinned to the left margin so the
  start of every line would always be in the same place; on a wide window that
  left the whole right half of the pane as one dead block.
- A page surface was drawn behind the text to give that block a meaning, and
  reverted the same day: it made the sheet sit hard against the left edge, which
  was worse than the problem it solved.

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## 2026-08-11 — Pages, typefaces, alignment

**Images** — web `sha256:3b040d99…`, server `sha256:1648498f…`

**Added**
- **Page count while writing.** The toolbar says *Page 2 of 4*, in the same words
  the PDF reader uses. Pages are counted, never stored: the note stays one
  document, and a test asserts no page ever reaches the stored body.
- **The typeface is a per-account setting** — serif, sans or mono, chosen under
  Account → Profile. On the account rather than in the browser, so it follows you
  to the phone.
- **Text alignment**, with its own TipTap extension rather than the official one,
  so the schema stays in files this project owns. Left is the default and is
  never written into the document. In Markdown, non-left blocks travel as
  `<div align="…">` — the one form most readers still honour — and the importer
  reads it back onto the paragraphs.

**Fixed**
- The Markdown exporter did not put a blank line between top-level blocks, so
  consecutive paragraphs ran together in other readers.

---

## 2026-08-11 — English throughout, and the PDF toolbar

**Added**
- **Search inside a notebook**, from the note list. The sidebar's global search
  was removed: searching from inside a notebook should mean searching *that*
  notebook.
- **New note / Upload PDF / Import Markdown** all live under the one `+` button.

**Changed**
- The interface is English throughout. It had drifted into two languages.
- The two visibility switches — drawing and margin notes — sit together at the
  far right of the PDF toolbar, because they mean the same kind of thing.
- The drawing tools appear next to the *Draw* button, not past everything else.
- A separator is renamed and removed by right-click, with a confirmation for the
  removal.

**Fixed**
- Hiding the drawing also hid the margin notes. Each switch now hides only its
  own thing.

---

## 2026-08-10 — Notes on passages

**Added**
- **Pinned notes in a PDF.** A remark can be attached to a passage, and is shown
  in the margin beside the page — not written on top of it. On a phone, where
  there is no margin, the same notes open as a bottom sheet.
- **Margin notes can be linked from the notes panel**, so a pinned remark can be
  written about at length and still lead back to the passage it came from.

**Fixed**
- A grey drag indicator stayed visible in the note list after a drag. It was a
  `borderTop` sitting beside a `border` shorthand in one style object.
- The server stored an overlay holding only pinned notes as `NULL`, throwing
  every one of them away, because it counted strokes and nothing else.

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## 2026-08-09 — Arranging a notebook

**Added**
- **Sorting per notebook**, remembered on the notebook itself, including an
  arrangement made by hand — which comes back intact after filtering.
- **Separators** to group notes inside a hand-made arrangement.
- **Markdown import**, single files or a ZIP this app exported.
- **Moving notes between notebooks.**

**Fixed**
- Switching to Draw shrank the page from 733px to 460px. The editor was a flex
  item at the default `flex: 0 1 auto`, so it was only as wide as its widest row
  — the toolbar, which loses a dozen buttons in Draw.

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## 2026-08-08 — PDFs

**Added**
- Import a PDF, read it, select its text, draw on each page, and export it with
  the drawings written in.
- Notes written beside a PDF.
- Uploaded files are encrypted at rest, like note bodies already were, and stored
  as deduplicated, content-addressed attachments.
- Unused attachments are freed; versions are kept by count rather than by age.
- Export as Markdown or PDF; the browser suites moved into the repository.

**Changed**
- Vector clocks were never read. Replaced with a conflict check that works.
- Public sign-up removed — an administrator creates the accounts.

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## Earlier

TipTap editor, version history, full-text search and attachments (2026-08-07);
drawing sync with WebP/JPEG support (2026-06-21); the first syncing alpha and PWA
(2026-02-18).