Tasks

In Progress

• Reveal-in-sidebar + residual external-watcher misses: SPECs/reveal-in-sidebar-and-external-watcher-spec.md — keep the explicit tab-context-menu "Reveal in sidebar" action working, leave ordinary file opens from expanding the Everything tree, and characterize the remaining external-file-watcher miss cases through a logging + manual-repro pass before patching further.

Done

• Sidebar drag-and-drop move: SPECs/sidebar-drag-and-drop-move-spec.md — drag files/folders in the Everything tree to re-parent them (drop on folder → inside, on file → its folder, on empty space → workspace root), with multi-select batches, open-tab/pin/expanded-state rewrites, and collision reporting. Pointer-event based so it coexists with the existing Finder-drop-to-open; inline rename and drag-move now share one write path (use-move-entry).
• Compact picker recents polish — add a plain non-hovering Recents label using sidebar section styling, remove the search field, per-row opened time, Open other file row, and active file entry, then keep the row remove affordance small so the picker is a direct global recents list.
• Global-scoped compact mode: SPECs/global-compact-mode-spec.md — compact windows are fully workspace-free (no root, no indexing, parent-dir single-file watcher), the picker shows a persisted global recent-files list, and the workspace-scoped compact setting is replaced by an "Open File in Compact Window" command.
• Compact picker trigger hit area — scope the closed trigger surface hover/focus state to the pill instead of the full picker-width wrapper.
• Compact picker trigger close hold — keep the closed trigger surface visible for 300ms after the picker close morph, then fade it with the picker opacity curve.
• Compact picker shadow fade — move the light-mode popover shadow to an opacity-animated layer so it fades out on close.
• Compact picker light trigger fill — make the light-mode compact trigger use a subtle gray tint instead of a near-white fill.
• Compact picker light shadow — add a subtle floating-card-style shadow to the compact picker popover in light mode.
• Compact picker timing — slow the picker morph and related content fades to 260ms while keeping the previous easing curve.
• Compact picker height cap — raise the compact navigator popover max height to 420px while keeping content-sized wrapping below the cap.
• Compact picker center anchoring — counter-scale the picker content from the horizontal center so the navigator stays centered while the popover expands.
• Compact footer polish — hide the document stats footer in compact chrome while leaving the normal workspace footer unchanged.
• Compact mode setting: SPECs/compact-mode-setting-spec.md — make compact chrome a persisted appearance setting with a command-palette toggle, while removing the debug-only compact launch environment variable.
• Compact single-file window: SPECs/compact-window-spec.md — use compact chrome for explicit single-file opens with no sidebar, no sidebar toggle, no tab strip, and a top dropdown that reuses Pinned, Recents, and Everything navigation.
• Website TanStack Start refactor: SPECs/website-tanstack-start-refactor-spec.md — move the marketing website from a plain Vite SPA to TanStack Start routing/document/build structure while preserving the static Cloudflare deployment path.
• Floating card shadow polish — add a large subtle shadow to the shared command-palette/popover card surface.
• Sidebar sections redesign: SPECs/sidebar-sections-spec.md — split the sidebar into collapsible Pinned, Recents, and Everything sections; keep the existing file tree under Everything; add per-workspace pinned files and compact metadata-backed recent files with Show More pagination.
• Table virtualization scroll stability: SPECs/table-virtualization-scroll-stability-spec.md — give folded markdown table widgets stable CodeMirror height estimates so scrolling through virtualized documents with tables does not suddenly resize the document or scrollbar.
• Sidebar file label setting — add an appearance.sidebar-file-label enum (title | filename, default title) and have the sidebar file tree render the filename stem or the title-fallback chain accordingly. Also expose a "Rename..." action in the file context menu (files reuse the inline-rename flow folders already had).
• Desktop dev script — make the root dev script delegate to the desktop package's Tauri dev workflow and keep desktop build/preview scripts on Vite+ commands.
• Dependency lock refresh: SPECs/Agent/worksheet-dependency-lock-refresh.md — refresh compatible Rust and JavaScript dependency lockfiles, including the vite-plus toolchain update, root TypeScript config alignment, and package-audit fixes.
• Default paragraph line height — make new and reset editor line-height settings use 1.8 instead of 1.6.
• List prefix interaction zones: SPECs/list-prefix-interaction-zones-spec.md — constrain pre-body caret positions to line start, marker start, and body start, then make Backspace and multi-line Tab/Shift-Tab operate from those source zones.
• List selection geometry revamp: SPECs/list-selection-geometry-revamp-spec.md — replace bullet/task point widgets plus zero-width hidden prefixes with measurable source-backed prefix marks so horizontal drag selection has stable hit-test geometry.
• Table cell link regressions: SPECs/table-cell-link-regressions-spec.md — keep rendered table-cell links clickable without unfolding the table, and render Obsidian wiki links with table-escaped aliases correctly.
• Table cell markdown preview: SPECs/table-cell-markdown-preview-spec.md — render inline markdown inside folded table preview cells instead of showing the raw markdown delimiters.
• Table unfold codeblock display: SPECs/table-unfold-codeblock-spec.md — render touched table markdown as codeblock-styled source lines in the main editor instead of plain prose.
• Markdown heading top padding: SPECs/heading-top-padding-spec.md — inject a shared editor heading class and use it to add 1rem top padding to Markdown headings.
• Sidebar hover and active foreground polish — make sidebar icons and labels use full foreground color on hover, selection, and active states.
• Code block editor font size — make fenced Markdown code blocks and inline code follow the editor font-size setting.
• Link and image paths with spaces: SPECs/link-paths-with-spaces-spec.md — make Markdown links/images and existing wiki-style link resolution work when labels, aliases, folders, filenames, or generated asset paths contain spaces.
• Empty list caret visibility: SPECs/empty-list-caret-spec.md — keep the caret visible at the body column on empty bullet and task-list items whose source marker is hidden by the list-prefix renderer.
• List selection and TODO checkbox regression: SPECs/list-selection-todo-checkbox-regression-spec.md — replace list-prefix replace widgets with point widgets to stop selection/caret snaps, and render TODO checkboxes as a single non-native span so drag-selection and nested alignment work.
• Mermaid canvas widget: SPECs/mermaid-canvas-widget-spec.md — render mermaid blocks in a fixed-height canvas-style frame with pan, zoom, reset-to-fit, and an edit-code toggle.
• Mermaid fullscreen diagram: SPECs/mermaid-fullscreen-diagram-spec.md — expand button on the canvas opens the diagram in a viewport-sized <dialog> with reused pan/zoom controls.
• Heading anchor links: SPECs/heading-anchor-links-spec.md — GFM slugger, same-doc smooth scroll, cross-doc navigate+scroll, inline warning on unresolved anchors.
• Section indicators: SPECs/section-indicators-spec.md — left-edge rail of heading ticks with active-heading tracking, hover outline popover, click-to-scroll, and right-click Copy heading link.
• Mermaid drag-selection edit-mode flip: SPECs/mermaid-drag-selection-edit-mode-flip-spec.md — freeze editMode for the duration of a pointer drag-selection so the widget doesn't flip into source view mid-drag.

Up Next

Backlog

Previously-triaged work organized by phase. Pull into Up Next as capacity opens.

Content features

• Fuzzy content search and grep: SPECs/fuzzy-search-grep-spec.md
• Tags: SPECs/tags-spec.md
• New tab recent files: SPECs/new-tab-recent-files-spec.md
• Document date display: SPECs/document-date-display-spec.md

Visual and media polish

• Inline media preview: SPECs/inline-media-preview-spec.md
• Obsidian image embed: SPECs/obsidian-image-embed-spec.md

Architectural bets

• Archive files: SPECs/archive-files-spec.md — medium risk. Adds a parallel storage area and a purge job.
• Multi window (v1 shipped — single-process multi-window): SPECs/multi-window-spec.md. Future work: macOS Window menu listing open workspaces, session restore of all open windows at quit, tab tear-off across windows.
• Custom MCP: SPECs/custom-mcp-spec.md — high risk. New protocol client, trust model, and tool invocation surface.
• Writer CLI: SPECs/writer-cli-spec.md — standalone second binary; can slot in whenever convenient.

Performance and resilience

• Slow storage resilience: SPECs/slow-storage-resilience-spec.md — async title extraction + bounded timeout so iCloud / Dropbox / network-mount workspaces stay responsive. Storage-agnostic, no provider-specific path lists.
• Workspace snapshot: SPECs/workspace-snapshot-spec.md — architectural cleanup of AppState into a single versioned Arc<Snapshot> with inode-keyed entries and watcher-maintained titles. Follow-up to the workspace-switch-hang fix; pull in only if the current epoch/cancel primitives prove insufficient or if tags / new-tab-recents want the richer metadata.

Done

See CHANGELOG.md and git log for shipped work. Notable items:

• External file watcher: external file changes (Finder, git, vim, scripts) reach the sidebar and reload-from-disk reliably; dotdir workspace roots, /var aliases, and self-write echoes all fixed (SPECs/external-file-watcher-spec.md)
• Cmd+F polish: safe scroll-into-view, Cmd+G / Cmd+Shift+G next/previous, scrollbar match overview (SPECs/cmd-f-spec.md)
• Caret position after history navigation
• Obsidian-style wikilink parsing — aliases, escaped table pipes, note fragments, same-file fragment links
• Sidebar toggle tab chrome shift
• Rename bundled Codex theme preset to Writer
• Recent workspaces Dock menu
• Editor search lifecycle refactor
• Theming system — CSS-var-driven primaries (accent, bg, fg, fonts, translucency, contrast) per light/dark mode
• Multi-window v1 (single-process, per-window state): SPECs/multi-window-spec.md — WorkspaceState keyed by window label isolates watcher, file index, settings, pending-open queue
• Tabbed pages (settings in a tab + page-kind registry)
• Frontmatter edit flow
• Editor shortcut clashes + markdown formatting keymap
• Editor context menu (incl. Format/Paragraph/Insert submenus)
• Extensionless markdown links
• Mermaid diagrams
• Editor tab switch performance — tab-keyed panes, watcher/save coordination
• Local-only macOS E2E smoke test via Choochmeque/tauri-webdriver — apps/desktop/e2e/
• Workspace visual redesign
• Auto update, titlebar double-click zoom, scrollbar layout shift fix, scroll active tab into view, hide sidebar handle, remove saving indicator + tab dirty dot
• Sidebar file/folder context menus, sidebar bulk actions, craft-style sidebar
• Gitignore-aware workspace
• Reduce document open latency
• Cold-start startup performance — bundled restore_workspace IPC, pre-resolved restore_target, skeleton-shell rendering, dev-only startup telemetry
• Keyboard and accessibility pass
• Workspace switch hang fix
• Writer open CLI — writer-cli binary + shared open_target module, macOS PATH-install menu item, bundle-resource staging