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Summary

Editor chrome aligned with the All Notes / Note Templates header row.

  • Open in new window
  • Distraction free — hides sidebar + note list (same width animation)
  • Back / Forward — visit stack, ⌘[ / ⌘]
  • Edit / split / preview stay in the same row

Title sits under the chrome, like the reference.

Type of Change

  • New feature

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  • Tests pass (noteHistory)
  • Typecheck renderer
  • PR targets develop

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  • New Features

    • Added back and forward navigation for recently viewed notes.
    • Added distraction-free mode to hide the sidebar and note list.
    • Added commands to toggle distraction-free mode and open notes in a new window.
    • Added workspace detail navigation from notebook entries.
    • Added adjustable motion settings for interface transitions.
  • Improvements

    • Refined note editor controls and window layouts.
    • Updated sidebar styling with rounded corners, borders, and clearer hover actions.
    • Improved animated transitions when panels collapse or resize.

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Walkthrough

The desktop app adds note history navigation, shared editor chrome, distraction-free mode, separate note windows, workspace detail actions, and configurable motion-token scaling. The sidebar and note list receive related layout and interaction updates.

Changes

Editor navigation and chrome

Layer / File(s) Summary
Note history and commands
apps/desktop/src/renderer/utils/noteHistory.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/utils/__tests__/noteHistory.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/App.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/hooks/*, packages/command-registry/src/definitions/app.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/CommandPalette.tsx
The app records note visits, supports back and forward navigation, registers four commands, and maps their icons. Tests cover history boundaries, duplicate visits, and forward-history truncation.
Shared editor chrome
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/editor/*, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/NoteEditor.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/NoteEditor.module.css
EditorChrome now renders navigation, distraction-free, window, view-mode, outline, and action controls for main and window variants.
Separate note-window chrome
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/NoteWindow.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/NoteWindow.css
The note window uses the window chrome variant and separates draggable and non-draggable regions.

Distraction-free layout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persisted layout state
apps/desktop/src/renderer/hooks/useResizableLayout.ts
The layout stores distractionFree, restores it, exposes a toggle, and reports zero sidebar and note-list widths while active.
Hidden navigation columns
apps/desktop/src/renderer/App.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/styles/global.css, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/NoteList.module.css
The app hides and disables the sidebar and note list in distraction-free mode. Resize handles are omitted when the note list is hidden. Window button visibility follows the hidden navigation state.

Workspace detail navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Notebook and sidebar actions
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/sidebar/Sidebar.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/sidebar/NotebookList.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/sidebar/NotebookItem.tsx
Notebook selection now navigates directly to a notebook. Separate detail actions enter a workspace and propagate through nested notebook items.
Sidebar presentation
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/sidebar/sidebar.module.css
The sidebar gains rounded borders, revised header spacing, nested row controls, and hover-only detail badges.

Motion token scaling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Motion plugin and stylesheet template
apps/desktop/src/renderer/plugins/motion.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/plugins/index.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/userHackFiles.ts, docs/NOW.md
The built-in motion plugin scales transition CSS variables from configuration. The stylesheet template documents motion variables, transition overrides, and animation examples.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 276ce

This change can leave keyboard users unable to reach note controls, allow hidden navigation elements to receive focus, and cause back/forward navigation to desynchronize or display a stale note when loading fails or requests complete out of order. The PR is not merge-ready until these behaviors are corrected.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant AppCommands
  participant App
  participant noteHistory
  participant NoteEditor
  User->>AppCommands: Select Back or Forward
  AppCommands->>App: Invoke navigation handler
  App->>noteHistory: Move history index
  noteHistory-->>App: Return selected note ID
  App->>NoteEditor: Render note and control availability
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Possibly related PRs

  • dripnex/readide#194: Shares changes across App.tsx, NoteEditor.tsx, NoteWindow.tsx, and sidebar components.
  • dripnex/readide#488: Shares workspace navigation changes in the sidebar components.
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Match the note-list header with a chrome row: pop-out,
distraction-free, and note history. Zen hides sidebar and
list so the editor can take the frame.
Sidebar is a padded card with a Detail control for workspace
view. Detached note windows get a drag strip and skip the
main-chrome cluster. Motion is a plugin that scales CSS tokens;
custom keyframes stay in styles.css.
The padded card fought the window chrome. Flush column, filled
selection, Detail still on hover.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/desktop/src/renderer/App.tsx`:
- Around line 317-332: In apps/desktop/src/renderer/App.tsx#L317-L332, add one
named note-history navigation action that loads the target note before
committing the cursor, ignores stale or rejected requests, and restores or
preserves the cursor when loading fails; use it for both back and forward
directions. Replace the inline handlers at
apps/desktop/src/renderer/App.tsx#L517-L532 with the same shared action, keeping
navigation state changes centralized through that action.

In `@apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/sidebar/sidebar.module.css`:
- Around line 810-830: Update the .notebook-item-detail and .sidebar-row-detail
styles so the Detail controls remain keyboard-focusable instead of using
display: none; visually conceal them with a focusable-preserving approach, and
add :focus-within selectors alongside the existing hover selectors to reveal
them when focused.

In `@apps/desktop/src/renderer/styles/global.css`:
- Around line 69-72: Ensure collapsed navigation containers cannot receive
keyboard focus by making both the collapsed sidebar rule at
apps/desktop/src/renderer/styles/global.css lines 69-72 and the collapsed
note-list rule at lines 80-81 inert or by unmounting their interactive
descendants; preserve the existing collapsed styling and pointer behavior.
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Comment thread apps/desktop/src/renderer/App.tsx
Comment thread apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/sidebar/sidebar.module.css
Comment thread apps/desktop/src/renderer/styles/global.css
Inbox sat inside stacked padding. Root notebooks now share
the same inset as All Notes.
Operators still work. The list does not need to advertise them.
Hover already reveals Detail. The list field is a filter.
The chip is the only hover target. Fill it with accent.
Focus outline and the chip stroke read as a box. Fill only.
On hover the chip fills and the chevron nudges right.
Leaf notebooks no longer reserve a chevron gutter. Toggle and
grip overlay the 16px icon slot so All Notes and Inbox line up.
Active rows are a full bar, not a pill. Chevron sits beside
the icon so nested notebooks are not stacked on the glyph.
Hover is Detail only. Git, history, add, and delete live on
right-click so Commit History is not a mystery click.
Ship remaining Inkdrop P0/P1 plus notebook/tag plugin writes
and durable HTTP _changes. History nav loads the note before
moving the cursor; Detail stays keyboard-reachable.
Comment thread packages/tables/src/parse.ts Fixed
Comment thread packages/tables/src/parse.ts Fixed
CodeQL blocked the PR on polynomial regexes in ATX headings
and GFM table separators. Parse those with linear scans.
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## Why
`#501` let plugins create/rename notebooks and tags. The IPC write
succeeded, but React Query did not refetch, so the sidebar stayed stale.

## What
Invalidate `notebookKeys` / `noteKeys` after plugin DataAPI writes.

## Test
Unit coverage is the existing DataAPI tests. Manual: a plugin
`createNotebook` should show the new book without a reload.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Updated notes, notebooks, and tags to refresh automatically after
creating, editing, renaming, changing colors, or deleting them.
* Ensured note lists reflect tag renames and note changes without
requiring a manual refresh.

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