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bvandeusen 95aa10c2c3 Remove the title field — a note is named by its first line
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Operator (note 2897): "notes shouldn't have a title field." The concept of a NAME
stays — search results, export filenames and the command palette all need one —
but nothing is typed into it any more. `display_title` is now the first non-empty
line of the body, falling back to the first checklist item.

That fallback is what step 2 bought, and the reason this could not go first: a
checklist had no body to be named from, so the title was its only name. Now every
note has a body, and a note that is only a checklist is named by its first item.

Gone everywhere: the column and note_revisions.title (0026), the field on the
core's Note/NoteCreateInput/NoteRevision and its SQLite columns (user_version 7),
`normalize_title`, the wire field, the FFI record and `NoteEdit::Title` /
`ClearTitle`, the web editor's "Title (optional)" input and the card's <h3>, and
the Android title field in both the compose sheet and the editor.

**The search vector had to be rebuilt, not just left alone.** `notes.search_vector`
is a STORED GENERATED column whose expression names `title` — Postgres refuses to
drop a column another generated column depends on. It is dropped and recreated over
`display_title` at weight A, which keeps the original intent: a note's NAME ranks
above the rest of its body.

**An imported title becomes the note's first body line.** Keep notes carry one, and
so does any ThoughtSync export taken before this. Dropping it would silently lose
text someone wrote; folding it in puts it exactly where a name now lives, so the
note arrives named as it was. Skipped when the body already opens with that line,
so re-importing an export this code produced doesn't stack duplicates.

Two smaller things fell out. The Android editor loses its bold first field — one
weight throughout, because the first line is the note's name but not a different
KIND of text, which is most of step 4 arriving early. And `ClearTitle`'s
justification comment moved to `ClearRemindAt`, which is now the surviving example
of why NoteEdit is a list rather than a struct of options.

Protocol note corrected to say what actually shipped: v2 is "no kind, no title",
one bump for the pair.

Verified with the local Rust gate this time, not by CI: fmt, clippy and 116 tests
all green before pushing. It caught four things — orphaned serde attributes where
fields were removed, a `wire::Preview.title` I deleted by mistake (a link preview
still has one), nine retention fixtures inserting a dropped column, and four
rustfmt diffs.
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bvandeusen bc22f8e249 Remove [[wiki-links]], backlinks and the graph
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Operator, 2026-08-22 (note 2897): ThoughtSync is an intermediary surface. You
write here because it's easy — a notebook in your pocket — and later you recall
the thing and go finish it somewhere else. Recall is the product; organization
is secondary. A linking system is organization, and it isn't what this is for.

So: `[[wiki-links]]`, backlinks, the `[[` autocomplete, the note_links table,
`/api/notes/link-search`, `/api/notes/<id>/backlinks`, the whole graph blueprint
and GraphView. Rust core loses `extract_links`, `backlinks`, `link_search` and
`create_titled`; the desktop loses the three Tauri commands that exposed them.

This subsumes 982d24c rather than reverting it. That commit bound links to a
note id so a rename would stop rewriting other notes' bodies — real infra, but
infra for a feature that is now gone, and nothing it added survives. Alembic
0023 stays in the chain anyway: it shipped in an image and may already be
applied, and deleting an applied revision strands a database's version pointer.
0024 drops the table and takes the column with it. The history stays honest
about the fact that it existed for a day.

Two things deliberately kept, because they were serving recall and only
incidentally serving links:

- `/api/notes/titles` and the titles store. The command palette lists them so
  you can jump to a note by name. `resolve()` — the name→note lookup that only
  linking needed — is gone.
- `display_title`. Every note still has a name for search results and export
  filenames. What that name is FOR changed; that it exists did not.

`notes/links.py` is now `notes/tags.py`, holding the #tag→label reconciliation
it always also owned. A file called links.py with no links in it would have been
exactly the drift this removal is meant to end.

Also swept out on the way: `_escape_like`, whose only caller was link-search,
and the `graph` icon. Nothing lost that a person typed — note_links was always
derived, and the `[[text]]` is still sitting in every body it was written in.
2026-08-22 12:00:57 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 e64d67e904 Expire trash after 30 days, and make the deadline something you can see
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Trash had no end. A note sat in /trash until someone emptied it by hand, and
its attachment BYTES sat on disk the whole time — the pile-up the operator
asked about. Nothing purged; there was no scheduler at all.

Retention is server-owned: `trash_retention_days` (default 30, 0 = keep
forever) in the settings registry, so it lands in admin Settings with no
migration and takes effect without a restart. A background sweep started in
before_serving does the work. Clients learn about a purge the way they learn
about any deletion — as a tombstone on the delta feed.

An auto-purge nobody can see coming is data loss on a timer, so the window is
now visible: /api/config publishes it, notes carry `deleted_at`, Trash leads
with the policy, and each card counts down. The countdown rounds DOWN — saying
"1 day left" for a note with ten minutes on the clock is the one error here
that actually costs someone a note.

Three things this turned up on the way:

- `DELETE /api/notes/<id>` hard-deleted the row, leaving no tombstone at all.
  A permanent delete in the web UI never reached a linked device, which would
  keep its copy forever and push it back on the next edit. It now purges
  through the same path as everything else.
- The purge left `note_revisions` and `note_link_previews` behind. A revision
  holds the full body, so the text of a "permanently deleted" note was still
  sitting in the database.
- `deleted_at` now SURVIVES a purge instead of being cleared. It's still true,
  and it means every query that says "not trashed" excludes tombstones for
  free — without it a content-less row reads as a perfectly normal active note
  and shows up on the board as a blank card.

Desktop keeps its own clock only when there's nobody else to keep one: the
sweep runs at startup on an UNLINKED device and refuses otherwise. A linked
client that expired notes on its own schedule could destroy something the
server was deliberately keeping, then push that delete upstream. Local policy
must never outrank the server's — so it also adopts the server's window for
the countdown rather than showing its offline default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SreJkbxB4gx8pPsu8QbLPi
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