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.
- BaseModal.vue (new): the backdrop + dialog-panel shell (dimmed fixed overlay,
bordered rounded panel, role=dialog, close on Escape + backdrop mousedown).
Caller sizes/pads/shadows the panel via `panelClass`, picks start/center
`align`, and sets an `ariaLabel` for header-less panels.
- LabelsModal, CommandPalette, and the AppShell keyboard-shortcuts overlay drop
their hand-rolled backdrop+panel shells and slot their content into BaseModal
(~12 lines of overlay boilerplate each → gone).
- NoteEditor deliberately keeps its own shell: its backdrop mousedown is
drag-guarded and its Esc/⌘-Enter handling is bespoke (unsaved-edit safety),
so folding it in would risk regressing the app's core editing surface (rule 28).
- AccountView's one device-name field now uses the shared BaseInput. SettingsView
is intentionally NOT converted — its rows are a horizontal label+control pattern
(checkbox/number/text, direct value mutation), a different shape than BaseInput's
vertical form field.
Frontend-only; CI vue-tsc is the type/template gate (no local typecheck, rule 10).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FRgehjoz7Yv8LkUfADxACm
A temporal recall path — find a note by WHEN it was captured, not just what it contains (task 1903, first of the M6 recall items).
Backend: list_notes gains an optional created_at range (created_after / created_before, half-open interval) + sort=created; also lays groundwork for the richer-search facets (task 1902). New _parse_iso_dt helper with a DB-free unit test.
Frontend: a Timeline view (sidebar nav + 'g t' + command palette) grouping active notes newest-first into local-time buckets (Today / Yesterday / Earlier this week / this month / Month YYYY), plus an optional From/To date filter. Built as a lens on the same NoteCard masonry, consistent with the existing Reminders/Search views.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FRgehjoz7Yv8LkUfADxACm
Fuzzy quick-open overlay: type to jump to any note by title (titles index)
or run a command — New note, Go to Board/Graph/Reminders/Archive/Trash, and
Open Settings (admins). Arrow keys move the selection, Enter activates, Esc
closes; Cmd/Ctrl+K toggles it (works even while typing).
Selecting a note navigates to the board with ?open=<id>; BoardView watches
that query and opens the editor (fetching the note if it isn't loaded), then
clears the param. Added to the ? cheat-sheet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FRgehjoz7Yv8LkUfADxACm
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