Remove the title field — a note is named by its first line

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.

android/ffi/src/lib.rs

@@ -568,9 +568,8 @@ mod tests {
         dir.to_string_lossy().into_owned()
     }
 
-    fn draft(title: &str, body: &str) -> NoteDraft {
+    fn draft(body: &str) -> NoteDraft {
         NoteDraft {
-            title: title.to_string(),
             body: body.to_string(),
             color: "default".to_string(),
             items: None,
@@ -587,62 +586,50 @@ mod tests {
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
 
         let created = app
-            .create_note(draft("Groceries", "milk"))
+            .create_note(draft("Groceries\nmilk"))
             .expect("create should succeed");
-        assert_eq!(created.title.as_deref(), Some("Groceries"));
-        assert_eq!(created.body, "milk");
+        assert_eq!(created.body, "Groceries\nmilk");
 
         let fetched = app
             .get_note(created.id.clone())
             .expect("get should succeed");
         assert_eq!(fetched.id, created.id);
+        // The NAME is the first line — there is no title field to have set (M13 step 3).
         assert_eq!(fetched.display_title, "Groceries");
 
         std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
     }
 
-    /// A body-only note still has to be nameable — that is what `display_title` is
-    /// for, and the Android board relies on it exactly as the desktop does.
+    /// Every note has to be nameable — that is what `display_title` is for, and the
+    /// Android board relies on it exactly as the desktop does.
     #[test]
-    fn body_only_notes_still_have_a_display_title() {
+    fn a_note_is_named_by_its_first_line() {
         let dir = scratch_dir();
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
 
         let created = app
-            .create_note(draft("", "just a thought"))
+            .create_note(draft("just a thought"))
             .expect("create should succeed");
-        assert_eq!(created.title, None);
         assert_eq!(created.display_title, "just a thought");
 
         std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
     }
 
-    /// Clearing a field and setting one are different edits, and the difference has
-    /// to survive the trip through the patch object.
+    /// The hole that made removing the title unsafe until checklists stopped being
+    /// their own kind of thing: a note with no body text still needs a name.
     #[test]
-    fn edits_can_both_set_and_clear_a_title() {
+    fn a_note_with_only_items_is_named_by_its_first_item() {
         let dir = scratch_dir();
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
-        let note = app.create_note(draft("First", "body")).expect("create");
 
-        let renamed = app
-            .update_note(
-                note.id.clone(),
-                vec![NoteEdit::Title {
-                    value: "Second".to_string(),
-                }],
-            )
-            .expect("rename");
-        assert_eq!(renamed.title.as_deref(), Some("Second"));
-
-        let cleared = app
-            .update_note(note.id.clone(), vec![NoteEdit::ClearTitle])
-            .expect("clear");
-        assert_eq!(
-            cleared.title, None,
-            "ClearTitle must null the column, not set it to an empty string — the \
-             distinction is why NoteEdit is a list rather than a struct of options"
-        );
+        let created = app
+            .create_note(NoteDraft {
+                body: String::new(),
+                color: "default".to_string(),
+                items: Some(vec!["milk".to_string(), "eggs".to_string()]),
+            })
+            .expect("create should succeed");
+        assert_eq!(created.display_title, "milk");
 
         std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
     }
@@ -673,8 +660,7 @@ mod tests {
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
         let note = app
             .create_note(NoteDraft {
-                title: "Packing".to_string(),
-                body: String::new(),
+                body: "Packing".to_string(),
                 color: "default".to_string(),
                 items: Some(vec!["socks".to_string()]),
             })
@@ -728,7 +714,7 @@ mod tests {
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
 
         let note = app
-            .create_note(draft("Trip", "book the ferry #travel"))
+            .create_note(draft("Trip\nbook the ferry #travel"))
             .expect("create");
         assert_eq!(
             note.labels.len(),
@@ -767,7 +753,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn deleting_forever_removes_the_note() {
         let dir = scratch_dir();
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
-        let note = app.create_note(draft("Ephemeral", "body")).expect("create");
+        let note = app.create_note(draft("Ephemeral\nbody")).expect("create");
 
         app.delete_note_forever(note.id.clone())
             .expect("delete forever");
@@ -784,7 +770,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn reminders_can_be_snoozed_and_completed() {
         let dir = scratch_dir();
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
-        let note = app.create_note(draft("Call back", "")).expect("create");
+        let note = app.create_note(draft("Call back")).expect("create");
         assert_eq!(note.remind_at, None);
 
         let snoozed = app.snooze_reminder(note.id.clone(), 60).expect("snooze");
@@ -810,9 +796,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn completing_a_recurring_reminder_moves_it_rather_than_ending_it() {
         let dir = scratch_dir();
         let app = ThoughtSync::new(dir.clone()).expect("a fresh data dir should open");
-        let note = app
-            .create_note(draft("Water the plants", ""))
-            .expect("create");
+        let note = app.create_note(draft("Water the plants")).expect("create");
 
         let armed = app
             .update_note(
@@ -849,9 +833,7 @@ mod tests {
 
         // A one-off clears BOTH fields, so an unrecognised rule cannot linger
         // invisibly on a note with no reminder.
-        let once = app
-            .create_note(draft("Post the letter", ""))
-            .expect("create");
+        let once = app.create_note(draft("Post the letter")).expect("create");
         app.update_note(
             once.id.clone(),
             vec![NoteEdit::RemindAt {

android/ffi/src/models.rs

@@ -29,9 +29,8 @@ use thoughtsync_core::sync::state as core_state;
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, uniffi::Record)]
 pub struct Note {
     pub id: String,
-    pub title: Option<String>,
-    /// Title if set, else the first body line — always present, so a body-only note
-    /// is still nameable. Derived by the core, never stored.
+    /// The note's NAME: its first non-blank body line, else its first checklist item.
+    /// Always present. Derived by the core, never stored.
     pub display_title: String,
     pub body: String,
     pub color: String,
@@ -129,7 +128,6 @@ impl From<core_models::Note> for Note {
         // Exhaustive on purpose — see the module header.
         let core_models::Note {
             id,
-            title,
             display_title,
             body,
             color,
@@ -149,7 +147,6 @@ impl From<core_models::Note> for Note {
         } = value;
         Note {
             id,
-            title,
             display_title,
             body,
             color,
@@ -341,7 +338,6 @@ impl From<NoteFacets> for core_models::Facets {
 /// A new note.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, uniffi::Record)]
 pub struct NoteDraft {
-    pub title: String,
     pub body: String,
     /// "default" unless the user picked a colour.
     pub color: String,
@@ -352,18 +348,8 @@ pub struct NoteDraft {
 
 impl From<NoteDraft> for core_models::NoteCreateInput {
     fn from(value: NoteDraft) -> Self {
-        let NoteDraft {
-            title,
-            body,
-            color,
-            items,
-        } = value;
-        core_models::NoteCreateInput {
-            title,
-            body,
-            color,
-            items,
-        }
+        let NoteDraft { body, color, items } = value;
+        core_models::NoteCreateInput { body, color, items }
     }
 }
 
@@ -371,14 +357,12 @@ impl From<NoteDraft> for core_models::NoteCreateInput {
 ///
 /// A LIST of these rather than a struct of optional fields, because the core's patch
 /// semantics distinguish three states — leave alone, set to a value, and clear to
-/// null — and Kotlin has no way to express the third with a nullable field. `title:
-/// null` in a data class is indistinguishable from `title` unset, so the editor
-/// could never clear a title. Explicit `Clear*` variants say it out loud, and Kotlin
-/// gets a sealed class it can `when` over exhaustively.
+/// null — and Kotlin has no way to express the third with a nullable field.
+/// `remindAt: null` in a data class is indistinguishable from `remindAt` unset, so
+/// the editor could never clear a reminder. Explicit `Clear*` variants say it out
+/// loud, and Kotlin gets a sealed class it can `when` over exhaustively.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, uniffi::Enum)]
 pub enum NoteEdit {
-    Title { value: String },
-    ClearTitle,
     Body { value: String },
     Color { value: String },
     Pinned { value: bool },
@@ -399,8 +383,6 @@ impl NoteEdit {
     fn entry(self) -> (&'static str, serde_json::Value) {
         use serde_json::Value;
         match self {
-            NoteEdit::Title { value } => ("title", Value::String(value)),
-            NoteEdit::ClearTitle => ("title", Value::Null),
             NoteEdit::Body { value } => ("body", Value::String(value)),
             NoteEdit::Color { value } => ("color", Value::String(value)),
             NoteEdit::Pinned { value } => ("pinned", Value::Bool(value)),
@@ -415,8 +397,8 @@ impl NoteEdit {
 
 /// Fold a list of edits into the single patch object the store applies.
 ///
-/// Later edits win on a repeated key, which is what a caller batching "set title,
-/// then clear title" would expect.
+/// Later edits win on a repeated key, which is what a caller batching "set a
+/// reminder, then clear it" would expect.
 pub fn patch_from(edits: Vec<NoteEdit>) -> serde_json::Value {
     let mut map = serde_json::Map::new();
     for edit in edits {
@@ -697,14 +679,14 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn a_set_and_a_clear_are_different_patch_entries() {
-        let set = patch_from(vec![NoteEdit::Title {
-            value: "x".to_string(),
+        let set = patch_from(vec![NoteEdit::RemindAt {
+            value: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z".to_string(),
         }]);
-        assert_eq!(set["title"], serde_json::json!("x"));
+        assert_eq!(set["remind_at"], serde_json::json!("2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"));
 
-        let cleared = patch_from(vec![NoteEdit::ClearTitle]);
+        let cleared = patch_from(vec![NoteEdit::ClearRemindAt]);
         assert!(
-            cleared["title"].is_null(),
+            cleared["remind_at"].is_null(),
             "a clear must reach the store as JSON null — an absent key means \
              'leave alone', which is a different instruction"
         );
@@ -720,11 +702,11 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn later_edits_win_on_a_repeated_field() {
         let patch = patch_from(vec![
-            NoteEdit::Title {
-                value: "first".to_string(),
+            NoteEdit::RemindAt {
+                value: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z".to_string(),
             },
-            NoteEdit::ClearTitle,
+            NoteEdit::ClearRemindAt,
         ]);
-        assert!(patch["title"].is_null());
+        assert!(patch["remind_at"].is_null());
     }
 }