android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/EditorBlocks.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,307 @@
+package com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui
+
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardActions
+import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardOptions
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.Icons
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Close
+import androidx.compose.material3.Checkbox
+import androidx.compose.material3.Icon
+import androidx.compose.material3.IconButton
+import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.saveable.Saver
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.focus.FocusRequester
+import androidx.compose.ui.focus.focusRequester
+import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.TextRange
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.ImeAction
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.TextFieldValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextDecoration
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.R
+import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.checklistItems
+import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.checklistRender
+
+/**
+ * One piece of a note body, as the editor DRAWS it.
+ *
+ * The note is still one markdown string underneath (M304) — this is a rendering and
+ * input shape, and nothing below the editor can tell it exists. [joinBlocks] puts the
+ * string back together on every edit.
+ *
+ * A run of prose lines is ONE block rather than one per line. Typing a paragraph has
+ * to feel like typing a paragraph, and a separate field under every sentence would
+ * break the caret in the middle of writing. Only a checklist item earns a block of its
+ * own, because only a checklist item needs a widget.
+ *
+ * The block owns its [TextFieldValue], not just its text, so a caret survives an edit
+ * to some other block. And [id] is stable across edits: Compose keys fields by
+ * position unless told otherwise, so inserting an item above one would otherwise move
+ * everyone's caret up a row. Content cannot serve as that key — two empty items are
+ * identical and neither is the other.
+ */
+data class EditorBlock(
+    val id: Long,
+    val value: TextFieldValue,
+    /** null for prose; ticked-or-not for a checklist item. */
+    val checked: Boolean?,
+) {
+    val isTask: Boolean get() = checked != null
+}
+
+/**
+ * Split a body into blocks, numbering them from [firstId].
+ *
+ * Which lines are items comes from the core, not from a pattern here — the grammar is
+ * written three times already and Kotlin is not going to be the fourth.
+ */
+fun splitBlocks(
+    body: String,
+    firstId: Long = 0,
+): List<EditorBlock> {
+    val itemAt = checklistItems(body).associateBy { it.line.toInt() }
+    val out = mutableListOf<EditorBlock>()
+    val prose = mutableListOf<String>()
+    var id = firstId
+
+    fun flushProse() {
+        if (prose.isNotEmpty()) {
+            out += EditorBlock(id++, TextFieldValue(prose.joinToString("\n")), null)
+            prose.clear()
+        }
+    }
+
+    body.split("\n").forEachIndexed { n, line ->
+        val item = itemAt[n]
+        if (item == null) {
+            prose += line
+        } else {
+            flushProse()
+            out += EditorBlock(id++, TextFieldValue(item.text), item.checked)
+        }
+    }
+    flushProse()
+
+    // Never empty: an empty note still needs one field to type into.
+    return out.ifEmpty { listOf(EditorBlock(id, TextFieldValue(""), null)) }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The body those blocks stand for — byte-identical to what [splitBlocks] was given,
+ * for a body already in canonical form. A non-canonical one (`- [X]`, an odd bullet)
+ * comes back canonical, which is the same rule every other rewriter in `derive`
+ * follows.
+ */
+fun joinBlocks(blocks: List<EditorBlock>): String =
+    blocks.joinToString("\n") { block ->
+        val checked = block.checked
+        if (checked == null) block.value.text else checklistRender(block.value.text, checked)
+    }
+
+/**
+ * Rotation carries the TEXT and re-derives the shape.
+ *
+ * Blocks are not parcelable and their ids are meaningless across a process death, so
+ * the body string is the honest thing to save — it is the real state, and everything
+ * else about a block is derived from it.
+ */
+val blocksSaver: Saver<List<EditorBlock>, String> =
+    Saver(save = { joinBlocks(it) }, restore = { splitBlocks(it) })
+
+/**
+ * The note's body, as fields and checkboxes rather than as markup.
+ *
+ * The point of the whole shape: a box you can tick while looking at the note, rather
+ * than `- [ ] ` to read and edit around. What the note IS never changed.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun BlockBody(
+    blocks: List<EditorBlock>,
+    readOnly: Boolean,
+    focus: Long?,
+    onChange: (List<EditorBlock>) -> Unit,
+    onFocus: (Long?) -> Unit,
+    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
+) {
+    // Focus is addressed by block ID, never by position — the id is the only thing
+    // about a block that survives one being inserted above it. Hoisted to the caller
+    // rather than kept here, because the TOOLBAR also asks for a focus when its button
+    // appends an item, and two owners of one cursor is one too many.
+    val requesters = remember { mutableMapOf<Long, FocusRequester>() }
+
+    LaunchedEffect(focus) {
+        val id = focus ?: return@LaunchedEffect
+        // Honoured after the composition that created the field: a FocusRequester not
+        // yet attached to anything throws when asked.
+        requesters[id]?.requestFocus()
+        onFocus(null)
+    }
+
+    fun replace(
+        index: Int,
+        block: EditorBlock,
+    ) = onChange(blocks.toMutableList().also { it[index] = block })
+
+    Column(modifier = modifier, verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(2.dp)) {
+        blocks.forEachIndexed { index, block ->
+            val requester = requesters.getOrPut(block.id) { FocusRequester() }
+            if (block.isTask) {
+                TaskBlock(
+                    block = block,
+                    readOnly = readOnly,
+                    requester = requester,
+                    onChange = { replace(index, it) },
+                    onEnter = {
+                        val next = blocks.nextId()
+                        onChange(afterEnter(blocks, index, next))
+                        // The new item if there was one; otherwise the block that just
+                        // became prose, which keeps the caret where the person left it.
+                        onFocus(if (blocks[index].value.text.isBlank()) block.id else next)
+                    },
+                    onDelete = {
+                        onChange(blocks.withoutIndex(index))
+                        onFocus(blocks.getOrNull(index - 1)?.id)
+                    },
+                )
+            } else {
+                ProseBlock(
+                    block = block,
+                    readOnly = readOnly,
+                    requester = requester,
+                    onChange = { replace(index, it) },
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/** A run of prose: one ordinary multi-line field, exactly as the editor always had. */
+@Composable
+private fun ProseBlock(
+    block: EditorBlock,
+    readOnly: Boolean,
+    requester: FocusRequester,
+    onChange: (EditorBlock) -> Unit,
+) {
+    PlainTextField(
+        value = block.value,
+        onValueChange = { onChange(block.copy(value = it)) },
+        modifier = Modifier.focusRequester(requester),
+        hint = R.string.editor_body_hint,
+        enabled = !readOnly,
+        textStyle = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge,
+    )
+}
+
+/**
+ * One checklist item: a real box, and the item's text beside it.
+ *
+ * Single-line with [ImeAction.Next], which is what turns the keyboard's return key
+ * into "next item" — the reason a list can be typed straight through rather than a
+ * marker at a time.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun TaskBlock(
+    block: EditorBlock,
+    readOnly: Boolean,
+    requester: FocusRequester,
+    onChange: (EditorBlock) -> Unit,
+    onEnter: () -> Unit,
+    onDelete: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    Row(verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
+        Checkbox(
+            checked = block.checked == true,
+            onCheckedChange = { onChange(block.copy(checked = it)) },
+            enabled = !readOnly,
+        )
+        PlainTextField(
+            value = block.value,
+            onValueChange = { onChange(block.copy(value = it)) },
+            modifier = Modifier.weight(1f).focusRequester(requester),
+            enabled = !readOnly,
+            singleLine = true,
+            textStyle =
+                MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge.copy(
+                    // Struck through when done, matching the card and the web.
+                    textDecoration =
+                        if (block.checked == true) TextDecoration.LineThrough else null,
+                ),
+            keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(imeAction = ImeAction.Next),
+            keyboardActions = KeyboardActions(onNext = { onEnter() }),
+        )
+        if (!readOnly) {
+            IconButton(onClick = onDelete) {
+                Icon(
+                    Icons.Filled.Close,
+                    contentDescription = stringResource(R.string.editor_remove_item),
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * What the return key does on a checklist item.
+ *
+ * On one with words in it, a new empty item below. On an EMPTY one, the item becomes
+ * prose — which is how a list ENDS, and the same rule the plain text field used
+ * before this: without it a list is impossible to get out of.
+ *
+ * Deliberately appends rather than splitting at the caret. Splitting an item in two is
+ * a rarity, and the caret is at the end for every ordinary use of this key.
+ */
+private fun afterEnter(
+    blocks: List<EditorBlock>,
+    index: Int,
+    newId: Long,
+): List<EditorBlock> {
+    val block = blocks[index]
+    val out = blocks.toMutableList()
+    if (block.value.text.isBlank()) {
+        out[index] = block.copy(value = TextFieldValue(""), checked = null)
+    } else {
+        out.add(index + 1, EditorBlock(newId, TextFieldValue(""), false))
+    }
+    return out
+}
+
+/** Drop a block, leaving at least one field to type into. */
+private fun List<EditorBlock>.withoutIndex(index: Int): List<EditorBlock> {
+    val out = toMutableList().also { it.removeAt(index) }
+    return out.ifEmpty { listOf(EditorBlock(nextId(), TextFieldValue(""), null)) }
+}
+
+/** An id nothing else is using. Monotonic within a session, which is all it has to be. */
+private fun List<EditorBlock>.nextId(): Long = (maxOfOrNull { it.id } ?: -1L) + 1L
+
+/**
+ * One more empty checklist item at the end, and the id to put the caret in.
+ *
+ * What the toolbar's checklist button does. It appends rather than inserting at the
+ * caret because a block editor has no single caret to insert at — the field that had
+ * focus may not even be the one being looked at by the time this runs.
+ */
+fun List<EditorBlock>.plusTask(): Pair<List<EditorBlock>, Long> {
+    val id = nextId()
+    return (this + EditorBlock(id, TextFieldValue(""), false)) to id
+}
+
+/**
+ * Put the caret at the end of the last block, for an editor that has just opened.
+ *
+ * Opening an existing note means continuing it, and a caret at offset zero would put
+ * the cursor before the first character of the wrong field.
+ */
+fun List<EditorBlock>.focusedAtEnd(): List<EditorBlock> {
+    if (isEmpty()) return this
+    val last = last()
+    return dropLast(1) + last.copy(value = last.value.copy(selection = TextRange(last.value.text.length)))
+}

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/NoteCard.kt

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextDecoration
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextOverflow
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.R
-import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.ChecklistItem
+import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.BodyItem
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.Note
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.NoteLabel
-import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.checklistLines
+import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.checklistItems
 
 @Composable
 fun NoteCard(
@@ -99,21 +99,21 @@ private fun NoteBody(
     onToggleItem: (Int, Boolean) -> Unit,
 ) {
     val lines = remember(note.body) { note.body.split("\n") }
+    // Read from the BODY rather than from note.items, which is the same list by a
+    // longer route — and one that can lag the text by a save.
     val itemAtLine =
         remember(note.body) {
-            checklistLines(note.body).withIndex().associate { (i, line) -> line.toInt() to i }
+            checklistItems(note.body)
+                .mapIndexed { index, item -> item.line.toInt() to (index to item) }
+                .toMap()
         }
 
     Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(2.dp)) {
         lines.take(MAX_PREVIEW_LINES).forEachIndexed { n, line ->
-            val index = itemAtLine[n]
-            val item = index?.let { note.items.getOrNull(it) }
+            val found = itemAtLine[n]
             when {
-                // Both in the condition, not just `item`: Kotlin will not infer that a
-                // non-null item implies a non-null index, and `onToggleItem` needs the
-                // index smart-cast to act on it.
-                index != null && item != null ->
-                    ChecklistRow(item) { onToggleItem(index, !item.checked) }
+                found != null ->
+                    ChecklistRow(found.second) { onToggleItem(found.first, !found.second.checked) }
                 // Kept as a gap rather than dropped: it is the paragraph break
                 // somebody typed, and the card reads as a wall without it.
                 line.isBlank() -> Spacer(Modifier.height(4.dp))
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ private fun NoteBody(
  */
 @Composable
 private fun ChecklistRow(
-    item: ChecklistItem,
+    item: BodyItem,
     onToggle: () -> Unit,
 ) {
     Row(verticalAlignment = Alignment.Top) {

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/NoteEditorScreen.kt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui
 
 import androidx.activity.compose.BackHandler
-import androidx.annotation.StringRes
 import androidx.compose.foundation.isSystemInDarkTheme
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
@@ -28,16 +27,11 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.runtime.saveable.rememberSaveable
 import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
-import androidx.compose.ui.focus.FocusRequester
-import androidx.compose.ui.focus.focusRequester
 import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
-import androidx.compose.ui.text.TextRange
-import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.TextFieldValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.R
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.Label
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.Note
-import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.checklistContinuation
 import kotlinx.coroutines.delay
 
 /**
@@ -73,22 +67,26 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
 
     // Keyed by the SESSION, not by note.id: the editor is reused across notes, so it
     // needs a key — but a draft's id changes the moment it is first saved, and
-    // re-keying on that would reset this field to whatever the store just returned,
+    // re-keying on that would reset this state to whatever the store just returned,
     // throwing away every character typed during the write.
     //
-    // Saveable, because a new note has nothing to fall back on. Rotating the phone
-    // mid-capture used to be survivable only in the old capture sheet, which used
-    // rememberSaveable for exactly this reason; the editor inherits the requirement
-    // along with the job.
+    // BLOCKS rather than one string, because a checklist item is drawn as a real
+    // checkbox now and a widget cannot live inside a text field. The note is still one
+    // markdown body underneath — see EditorBlocks.kt — and `bodyText` is what is saved.
     //
-    // TextFieldValue rather than String so the CARET can start at the end of the
-    // text. A String field always begins its selection at offset zero, which would
-    // drop the cursor before the first character — the wrong place for "carry on
-    // writing this note", which is what opening an existing one usually means.
-    var body by
-        rememberSaveable(sessionKey, stateSaver = TextFieldValue.Saver) {
-            mutableStateOf(TextFieldValue(note.body, TextRange(note.body.length)))
+    // Saveable, because a new note has nothing to fall back on if the phone rotates
+    // mid-capture. The saver carries the TEXT and re-derives the shape, since a block's
+    // id means nothing across a process death.
+    var blocks by
+        rememberSaveable(sessionKey, stateSaver = blocksSaver) {
+            mutableStateOf(splitBlocks(note.body).focusedAtEnd())
         }
+    // Which field the caret is wanted in, or null. Held HERE rather than inside
+    // BlockBody because the toolbar's checklist button also asks for one.
+    var focus by remember(sessionKey) { mutableStateOf<Long?>(null) }
+
+    val bodyText = remember(blocks) { joinBlocks(blocks) }
+
     var picker by remember(sessionKey) { mutableStateOf(Picker.NONE) }
     var confirmingDelete by remember(sessionKey) { mutableStateOf(false) }
 
@@ -102,8 +100,8 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
     // would bump `updated_at`, mark the note dirty for sync, and snapshot a
     // revision identical to the one before it.
     val flush = {
-        if (!readOnly && body.text != note.body) {
-            onAction(EditorAction.SaveText(body.text))
+        if (!readOnly && bodyText != note.body) {
+            onAction(EditorAction.SaveText(bodyText))
         }
     }
     val leave = {
@@ -112,15 +110,12 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
     }
 
     // Opening an existing note means continuing it. Without this the note arrives
-    // unfocused, and carrying on costs a tap into the body and often a second to
-    // drag the caret to the end — the friction the operator reported.
+    // unfocused, and carrying on costs a tap into the last field.
     //
-    // Not for a trashed note: it renders read-only, and a keyboard over a record
-    // you cannot edit is noise. `note.id` as the key so the request fires again
-    // when the reused editor is pointed at a different note.
-    val bodyFocus = remember { FocusRequester() }
+    // Not for a trashed note: it renders read-only, and a keyboard over a record you
+    // cannot edit is noise.
     LaunchedEffect(sessionKey) {
-        if (!readOnly) bodyFocus.requestFocus()
+        if (!readOnly) focus = blocks.lastOrNull()?.id
     }
 
     // Idle-debounced autosave. LaunchedEffect cancels and restarts on every
@@ -134,10 +129,10 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
     // For a note that does not exist yet this is also what CREATES it, which is why
     // every toolbar button works moments after the first keystroke rather than
     // needing the note to be saved by hand first.
-    LaunchedEffect(body.text, sessionKey) {
-        if (readOnly || body.text == note.body) return@LaunchedEffect
+    LaunchedEffect(bodyText, sessionKey) {
+        if (readOnly || bodyText == note.body) return@LaunchedEffect
         delay(AUTOSAVE_IDLE_MS)
-        onAction(EditorAction.SaveText(body.text))
+        onAction(EditorAction.SaveText(bodyText))
     }
 
     BackHandler(onBack = leave)
@@ -179,7 +174,11 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
                         readOnly = readOnly,
                         tint = tint,
                         onClose = leave,
-                        onStartChecklist = { body = insertChecklistMarker(body) },
+                        onStartChecklist = {
+                            val (next, id) = blocks.plusTask()
+                            blocks = next
+                            focus = id
+                        },
                         onPicker = { picker = it },
                         onConfirmDelete = { confirmingDelete = true },
                         onAction = onAction,
@@ -222,16 +221,17 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
                         )
                     }
 
-                    // One field. A note is its body; its NAME is that body's first
-                    // line, so there is nothing separate to type into and nothing to
-                    // render bolder than the line beneath it (M13 steps 3 and 4).
-                    EditorField(
-                        value = body,
-                        onValueChange = { body = continueChecklist(body, it) },
-                        hint = R.string.editor_body_hint,
-                        enabled = !readOnly,
-                        minLines = MIN_BODY_LINES,
-                        modifier = Modifier.focusRequester(bodyFocus),
+                    // A note is its body; its NAME is that body's first line, so there
+                    // is nothing separate to type into and nothing rendered bolder than
+                    // the line beneath it (M13 steps 3 and 4). What 2992 changed is only
+                    // how the body is DRAWN — checklist items as boxes rather than as
+                    // the markup for boxes.
+                    BlockBody(
+                        blocks = blocks,
+                        readOnly = readOnly,
+                        focus = focus,
+                        onChange = { blocks = it },
+                        onFocus = { focus = it },
                     )
 
                     // No checklist section. The items ARE lines of the field above
@@ -327,104 +327,6 @@ private fun EditorOverlays(
     }
 }
 
-/**
- * The note's body field.
- *
- * Undecorated, via the shared [PlainTextField]: the screen is already painted in
- * the note's colour, and a filled field would draw a second surface over the first
- * and turn a note into a form.
- *
- * One weight throughout. The first line is the note's name, but it is not a
- * different KIND of text from the line after it, and typing it should not feel like
- * filling in a header.
- */
-@Composable
-private fun EditorField(
-    value: TextFieldValue,
-    onValueChange: (TextFieldValue) -> Unit,
-    @StringRes hint: Int,
-    enabled: Boolean,
-    minLines: Int = 1,
-    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
-) {
-    PlainTextField(
-        value = value,
-        onValueChange = onValueChange,
-        modifier = modifier,
-        hint = hint,
-        enabled = enabled,
-        minLines = minLines,
-        textStyle = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge,
-    )
-}
-
-/**
- * Insert `- [ ] ` at the caret, on a line of its own.
- *
- * The whole of "add a checklist" now. It writes nothing to the store, needs no saved
- * note, and works on an empty compose box the moment it opens — because an item is
- * text, and this screen already knows how to hold text.
- */
-private fun insertChecklistMarker(value: TextFieldValue): TextFieldValue {
-    val start = value.selection.start
-    val before = value.text.take(start)
-    // A new line unless the caret is already at the start of one: a marker in the
-    // middle of a sentence is not a list item, it is a typo.
-    val prefix = if (before.isEmpty() || before.endsWith("\n")) "" else "\n"
-    val text = before + prefix + CHECKLIST_MARKER + value.text.substring(start)
-    return TextFieldValue(text, TextRange(start + prefix.length + CHECKLIST_MARKER.length))
-}
-
-/**
- * Enter on a task line starts the next item; on an EMPTY one it ends the list.
- *
- * Both halves are needed. Without the first, a list costs six characters a row on a
- * phone keyboard; without the second, there is no way out of one except deleting the
- * marker by hand.
- *
- * The grammar lives in the core ([checklistContinuation]) rather than here. It is
- * already written three times — Rust, Python, TypeScript — and a fourth copy in
- * Compose would be a fourth place for a checklist to change shape when it syncs.
- *
- * Recognised by SHAPE rather than by a key event: this runs inside onValueChange, and
- * a plain Enter is exactly one more character than before, and that character is a
- * newline. Anything else — a paste, a selection replaced, an autocorrect — falls
- * through untouched.
- */
-private fun continueChecklist(
-    old: TextFieldValue,
-    new: TextFieldValue,
-): TextFieldValue {
-    val caret = new.selection.start
-    val typedNewline =
-        new.selection.length == 0 &&
-            new.text.length == old.text.length + 1 &&
-            caret > 0 &&
-            new.text[caret - 1] == '\n'
-    // Both guarded on `typedNewline`, because caret - 1 is only a real index once it
-    // is known to be the newline that was just typed.
-    val lineStart = if (typedNewline) new.text.take(caret - 1).lastIndexOf('\n') + 1 else 0
-    val marker =
-        if (typedNewline) checklistContinuation(new.text.substring(lineStart, caret - 1)) else null
-
-    return when {
-        marker == null -> new
-        // An empty item: take the marker line away rather than adding another.
-        marker.isEmpty() ->
-            TextFieldValue(
-                new.text.take(lineStart) + new.text.substring(caret),
-                TextRange(lineStart),
-            )
-        else ->
-            TextFieldValue(
-                new.text.take(caret) + marker + new.text.substring(caret),
-                TextRange(caret + marker.length),
-            )
-    }
-}
-
-private const val CHECKLIST_MARKER = "- [ ] "
-
 /**
  * How long typing has to stop before the note is written.
  *
@@ -440,4 +342,3 @@ private const val AUTOSAVE_IDLE_MS = 1_000L
  */
 private val SHEET_CORNER = 28.dp
 
-private const val MIN_BODY_LINES = 6

android/ffi/src/lib.rs

@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ use thoughtsync_core::sync::blobs::BlobStore;
 use thoughtsync_core::sync::{client, compat, engine, push, state};
 
 use models::{
-    patch_from, ClientUpdate, Identity, Label, Note, NoteDraft, NoteEdit, NoteQuery, ProbeResult,
-    RevokeOutcome, SyncOutcome, SyncStatus,
+    patch_from, BodyItem, ClientUpdate, Identity, Label, Note, NoteDraft, NoteEdit, NoteQuery,
+    ProbeResult, RevokeOutcome, SyncOutcome, SyncStatus,
 };
 
 uniffi::setup_scaffolding!();
@@ -511,11 +511,21 @@ impl ThoughtSync {
 // already being paid (Rust, Python, TypeScript); a fourth in Compose would be one
 // more place for a checklist to change shape when it syncs.
 
-/// Which body lines carry checklist items, in item order — so a renderer walking the
-/// body line by line knows which of them to draw a checkbox on.
+/// One checklist item as the body line that stores it. For an editor that shows a
+/// checkbox instead of the markup and has to write the markup back.
 #[uniffi::export]
-pub fn checklist_lines(body: String) -> Vec<u32> {
-    local::derive::item_lines(&body)
+pub fn checklist_render(text: String, checked: bool) -> String {
+    local::derive::render_item(&text, checked)
+}
+
+/// Every checklist item in a body, with the line each one sits on — so a renderer
+/// walking the body line by line knows which lines are boxes and what is in them.
+#[uniffi::export]
+pub fn checklist_items(body: String) -> Vec<BodyItem> {
+    local::derive::extract_items(&body)
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(BodyItem::from)
+        .collect()
 }
 
 /// The body with the item at `line`/`column` ticked or unticked, or null if that is

android/ffi/src/models.rs

@@ -49,6 +49,33 @@ pub struct Note {
     pub updated_at: Option<String>,
 }
 
+/// A checklist item as it sits in a note's body.
+///
+/// Mirrors `derive::DerivedItem`. Carries the LINE because every renderer that walks
+/// a body line by line needs the text, the state and the position together — the card
+/// to draw a box in the right place, the block editor to know where one block ends.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, uniffi::Record)]
+pub struct BodyItem {
+    pub line: u32,
+    pub text: String,
+    pub checked: bool,
+}
+
+impl From<thoughtsync_core::local::derive::DerivedItem> for BodyItem {
+    fn from(i: thoughtsync_core::local::derive::DerivedItem) -> Self {
+        let thoughtsync_core::local::derive::DerivedItem {
+            text,
+            checked,
+            line,
+        } = i;
+        BodyItem {
+            line,
+            text,
+            checked,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// An Android build the linked server is offering, already judged to be newer.
 ///
 /// A mirror rather than a re-export of `client::ClientRelease`, for the same

core/src/local/derive.rs

@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ fn push_unique(out: &mut Vec<String>, candidate: &str) {
 pub struct DerivedItem {
     pub text: String,
     pub checked: bool,
+    /// Which body line it sits on.
+    ///
+    /// Carried here rather than offered as a second function, because every renderer
+    /// that walks a body line by line — the Android card, the block editor — needs the
+    /// text, the state AND the position together, and asking for them separately is
+    /// how two calls come to disagree about a body that changed between them.
+    pub line: u32,
 }
 
 /// One parsed task line, holding enough to put it back exactly as it was found.
@@ -143,6 +150,16 @@ fn parse_task_line(line: &str) -> Option<TaskLine<'_>> {
     })
 }
 
+/// One item as the line that stores it, in canonical form.
+///
+/// Public because a block editor has to write a line back after someone edits it in a
+/// widget that never showed them the marker. Rendering is trivial where PARSING is
+/// not, but it still belongs here: this is the file that decides what canonical looks
+/// like, and a caller inventing its own `- [x] ` would be a fourth opinion on it.
+pub fn render_item(text: &str, checked: bool) -> String {
+    render_task_line("", '-', checked, text)
+}
+
 fn render_task_line(indent: &str, bullet: char, checked: bool, text: &str) -> String {
     // Always lowercase `x`, whatever was parsed: one canonical output is what makes
     // a round trip stable, so `- [X]` normalises the first time it is touched and
@@ -169,11 +186,12 @@ pub fn strip_marker(line: &str) -> &str {
 /// Every checklist item in `body`, in the order they appear.
 pub fn extract_items(body: &str) -> Vec<DerivedItem> {
     let mut out = Vec::new();
-    for line in body.split('\n') {
+    for (n, line) in body.split('\n').enumerate() {
         if let Some(t) = parse_task_line(line) {
             out.push(DerivedItem {
                 text: t.text.to_string(),
                 checked: t.checked,
+                line: n as u32,
             });
         }
     }
@@ -241,22 +259,6 @@ pub fn remove_item(body: &str, index: usize) -> String {
     map_task_line(body, index, |_| None)
 }
 
-/// The body line each checklist item sits on, in item order.
-///
-/// For a renderer that walks the body line by line and has to know which of them are
-/// items — the Android card does exactly that, and this is what saves it from
-/// carrying a fourth copy of the grammar. Line numbers rather than text offsets, for
-/// the same encoding reason [toggle_at] gives.
-pub fn item_lines(body: &str) -> Vec<u32> {
-    let mut out = Vec::new();
-    for (n, line) in body.split('\n').enumerate() {
-        if parse_task_line(line).is_some() {
-            out.push(n as u32);
-        }
-    }
-    out
-}
-
 /// The body with the item on `line` toggled — or None when that line is not a task
 /// line, or when `column` falls outside its `[ ]` marker.
 ///
@@ -362,10 +364,11 @@ mod tests {
 
     // ── checklist items ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-    fn item(text: &str, checked: bool) -> DerivedItem {
+    fn item(text: &str, checked: bool, line: u32) -> DerivedItem {
         DerivedItem {
             text: text.to_string(),
             checked,
+            line,
         }
     }
 
@@ -374,7 +377,7 @@ mod tests {
         let body = "shopping\n\n- [ ] milk\n- [x] eggs";
         assert_eq!(
             extract_items(body),
-            vec![item("milk", false), item("eggs", true)]
+            vec![item("milk", false, 2), item("eggs", true, 3)]
         );
     }
 
@@ -383,7 +386,7 @@ mod tests {
         // The whole reason the body owns the list: a table of rows could only ever
         // render after the prose.
         let body = "before\n- [ ] middle\nafter";
-        assert_eq!(extract_items(body), vec![item("middle", false)]);
+        assert_eq!(extract_items(body), vec![item("middle", false, 1)]);
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -407,20 +410,20 @@ mod tests {
         let body = "* [ ] star\n    - [x] indented";
         assert_eq!(
             extract_items(body),
-            vec![item("star", false), item("indented", true)]
+            vec![item("star", false, 0), item("indented", true, 1)]
         );
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn an_empty_item_is_still_an_item() {
         // What pressing Enter on a list leaves behind.
-        assert_eq!(extract_items("- [ ]"), vec![item("", false)]);
-        assert_eq!(extract_items("- [ ] "), vec![item("", false)]);
+        assert_eq!(extract_items("- [ ]"), vec![item("", false, 0)]);
+        assert_eq!(extract_items("- [ ] "), vec![item("", false, 0)]);
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn uppercase_x_parses_and_normalises_on_rewrite() {
-        assert_eq!(extract_items("- [X] done"), vec![item("done", true)]);
+        assert_eq!(extract_items("- [X] done"), vec![item("done", true, 0)]);
         // Touching it once canonicalises it, and never again.
         assert_eq!(set_item_checked("- [X] done", 0, true), "- [x] done");
     }
@@ -477,9 +480,19 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn item_lines_maps_items_to_the_lines_they_sit_on() {
-        assert_eq!(item_lines("a\n- [ ] x\nb\n- [x] y"), vec![1, 3]);
-        assert!(item_lines("no items here").is_empty());
+    fn render_item_is_what_extract_reads_back() {
+        assert_eq!(render_item("milk", false), "- [ ] milk");
+        assert_eq!(render_item("done", true), "- [x] done");
+        // An empty item has no trailing space, so a round trip does not grow it.
+        assert_eq!(render_item("", false), "- [ ]");
+        let line = render_item("milk", true);
+        assert_eq!(extract_items(&line), vec![item("milk", true, 0)]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn items_carry_the_line_they_sit_on() {
+        let found = extract_items("a\n- [ ] x\nb\n- [x] y");
+        assert_eq!(found.iter().map(|i| i.line).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![1, 3]);
     }
 
     #[test]