The special workspace was a second layout beside the tiles, with its own
focus, its own Tab, Esc and q, and a returnTo flag to find the way back.
The views are now tile kinds instead: opened beside what is on screen,
walked with Alt-h/j/k/l and gt/gT, closed with q.
- Tile gets a kind: node, board, agenda, calendar or card. view,
specialFocus, returnTo and the special context are gone.
- A trail of focused tiles: closing one goes back to the one before, so
q on a card's notes or a calendar day returns to the view.
- A view is never replaced by what is opened from it; that opens beside.
- S tiles the board, agenda and calendar ahead of the documents, or puts
every view away. :plan, with :special kept as an alias.
- The card sheet is a card tile beside the board, following its cursor;
leaving it while writing the description saves what is written.
- Spaces remember their views; with a view focused, a space switch takes
the views along instead of leaving copies behind.
- Card commands check what has the focus rather than the special view.
Every overlay is drawn in Sheet.svelte: the header, the close button, the
footer of keys and the list cursor kept on screen, written once instead of
in ten copies. Overlays open and close through openSheet and closeSheet.
The outline, history and backlinks sheets and the share bar are one info
sheet with a part for each, Tab between them. gi opens it, gO, gh and gb open
it at their part, and so does a click on the line under the title. The
buttons in the document header are gone; the meta line says when the
document is public, and a phone gets edit and info under the text.
keymap.ts lists every key with its context, action and help line.
actions.ts holds what each one does, typed against the table so a key
without an action, or an action without a key, does not compile.
modes.ts stacks the contexts (always > sheet > drawer > workspace >
writing > focused tile > special > global) and writes the two-key
pending logic once. App.svelte's 480-line onkeydown is now one call.
Help, the panel footers (a shared Keys component), the rail's keycaps
and Commands.md all read the table; the wiki gains the card and
scratchpad key tables.
One fix on the way: Ctrl-S in the editor no longer saves twice, which
could make the second save fail as "changed somewhere else".
- POST /api/diary/day finds a day's entry, or starts it at the root of the
diary, by the server's clock. T, the calendar and a capture all use it, so
they can no longer write two entries for one day: before, T counted days by
the browser's midnight and wrote into whichever diary folder was last open.
- A Ctrl-P result opens beside the results, as a / result does, so n and N
go on from it rather than finding no search.
- A card's description resolves its [[links]] the way a document does, and
following one leaves the card for what it leads to.
- gf on the board opens a card's notes. Enter was documented for that, but
Enter turns the card over.
- The pane header and the status line show where the open node is, rather
than where the list is, so a node from another space shows its own path.
Q lowers the scratchpad from under the bar over whatever is on screen,
as the desktop lowers its own. Its notes have no name or place; each is
written in the vim editor and saves itself. K (:keep [title]) makes the
note under the cursor a document in the folder being browsed, titled by
its first line, and takes it off the pad. :scratch <text> jots one from
the command line. The notes ride along in backups and whole-workspace
exports.
The card description's editor is now TextEditor, shared by both.
Enter on a card floats a sheet over the board: its labels, a markdown
description written in the vim editor (:w writes it to the card), and a
checklist walked with j/k, ticked with Space, grown with o. Labels take
their colour from their name. A repeating card comes back with its
checklist reopened.
Code in the editor and in rendered fences is coloured from nvim's
yorha.lua, one class per highlight group, for every language
@codemirror/language-data knows; the languages load on first use.
Inside the special workspace the agenda and the calendar could only be
reached with Alt-h/j/k/l, which a desktop that binds Alt to its own windows
never lets through, and the same keys meant two things: t on the agenda put
the whole workspace away, t elsewhere went to it. Three esc buttons, one per
tile, all closed everything.
Now b, t and C only ever go to their tile, from anywhere. Tab and Shift-Tab
walk the tiles, as they walk the spaces elsewhere; l past the board's last
list goes on into the agenda, h in the agenda back to the board, j past its
end into the calendar. S toggles the workspace, and q and Esc leave it from
whichever tile — after leaving fullscreen first. The tile buttons are gone;
each tile's head shows its key instead, lit on the one with focus, and the
bar has a special pill beside the spaces.
A document opened from the workspace — a day of the calendar, an entry of
the agenda, today's entry, a card's notes — comes back to the tile it was
opened from on q.
The board tile shows the board of the space being browsed, or else the last
one shown, so coming from the diary, which has none, no longer leaves it
empty. Card and list actions follow the board on screen, not the browsed
space.
The board swapped out the tree, and the agenda and the calendar were
overlays over it, each with a key to open and a key to close. They are now
three tiles of one special workspace, as the desktop keeps its scratchpad:
the board on the left, the agenda over the calendar on the right.
S puts it up and away from anywhere. b, t and C go straight to their tile,
and put the workspace away when that tile already has focus. Alt-h/j/k/l
move the focus between the tiles, f gives the focused one the porthole,
and the tiles without focus keep their cursors, dimmed. A digit switches
space as everywhere, and the board follows; the board's head names every
space that has one. Enter on an agenda card goes to it on the board beside.
A space without a board says so in the board's tile instead of refusing.
The rail offers the three tiles as doors, so a phone, which shows one at a
time, can walk between them. The help, the README, the wiki and the
screenshots say how it works now.
The help was a box narrower than the screen that had to be scrolled with
the mouse. It is now as big as the porthole, in newspaper columns that run
on to the right: h/l and j/k move a column, Ctrl-D/U and Space a screen,
g/G to either end. A row is never split between columns, and says what it
says before its first dash; / filters the rows by key or words, and shows
the ones left whole. The prose footer became an 'in the editor' group.
The README grew a section per feature and is a good reference, but nothing
said where to begin. docs/wiki now has a getting-started page, a guide that
walks through one day with the workspace and explains each part where it comes
up, and a page per part of the app, each with screenshots of what it
describes.
Three pages are read out of the code rather than written, so they cannot drift
from it: the keys and commands from Help.svelte and commands.ts, the same lists
`:help` draws; the settings from .env.example, which gains a heading for the
vault, trash and history settings so they no longer sit under mail; and the
API from the README's table. `make wiki` writes them, and `--check` fails when
one is stale or a link between pages leads nowhere. `--publish` lays the pages
out for a GitHub wiki: links without `.md`, images beside them, `[[` escaped so
the wiki does not take a command's help text for a link to a page.
The screenshots are taken by `make screenshots`: the debug binary on a
temporary data directory, with a password made up for the run, filled with an
example workspace over the API, and a headless Chromium driven over the
DevTools protocol through the views the docs show. Nothing outside the
temporary directory is touched but docs/images, and the pictures are cut to
256 colours, a third of their size, which a dark UI does not show.
The README opens with the banner, a CI badge, the guide, the features grouped
by what they are for, and six of the screenshots.
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