android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/MainActivity.kt

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.ThoughtSync
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui.BoardScreen
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui.BoardSync
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui.BoardViewModel
-import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui.ComposeSheet
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui.ForegroundTransitions
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui.NoteEditorScreen
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.ui.StoreUnavailableScreen
@@ -141,14 +140,13 @@ private fun App(
     val sync: SyncViewModel =
         viewModel(factory = SyncViewModel.factory(core, onStoreChanged = board::refresh))
 
-    // Sheet and screen visibility are view STATE, not view-model state: they are
-    // about what is on the display, and nothing in the store cares.
+    // Screen visibility is view STATE, not view-model state: it is about what is on
+    // the display, and nothing in the store cares. Saveable so a rotation does not
+    // close it.
     //
-    // Saveable, though: `remember` alone meant rotating the phone closed whatever
-    // was open and took the half-written note in the capture sheet with it. The
-    // editor never had that problem because the note it is on lives in a view
-    // model; these two are the only screen state that did not.
-    var composing by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    // The capture sheet used to keep its own flag here too. It is gone: the + button
+    // opens the editor on an unsaved draft, so writing a note and editing one are the
+    // same surface with the same toolbar.
     var showingSync by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(false) }
 
     val update: UpdateViewModel = viewModel(factory = UpdateViewModel.factory(core, context))
@@ -192,6 +190,7 @@ private fun App(
             NoteEditorScreen(
                 // Non-null by construction: `screen` is EDITOR only when it is.
                 note = requireNotNull(editing) { "the editor screen needs a note" },
+                sessionKey = board.state.editingSession,
                 labels = board.state.labels,
                 saving = board.state.saving,
                 error = board.state.error,
@@ -218,20 +217,9 @@ private fun App(
                     ),
                 onOpenSync = { showingSync = true },
                 onSearch = board::search,
-                onCompose = { composing = true },
+                onCompose = board::compose,
                 onDismissError = board::dismissError,
             )
-
-            if (composing) {
-                ComposeSheet(
-                    saving = board.state.saving,
-                    onDismiss = { composing = false },
-                    onSave = { content ->
-                        board.create(content)
-                        composing = false
-                    },
-                )
-            }
         }
     }
 

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

@@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ data class BoardState(
      * has to re-query to see its own change.
      */
     val editing: Note? = null,
+    /**
+     * Bumped each time the editor is opened on a DIFFERENT note, and deliberately
+     * not when the note it is already on changes.
+     *
+     * The editor keys its text field on this rather than on `editing.id`, because a
+     * draft's id changes the instant it is first saved — and re-keying on that would
+     * reset the field to whatever the store just returned, discarding anything typed
+     * during the write. That is a data-loss bug rather than a flicker.
+     */
+    val editingSession: Long = 0,
 ) {
     /** Search overrides the destination while there is a query to run. */
     val searching: Boolean get() = query.isNotBlank()
@@ -188,44 +198,6 @@ class BoardViewModel(
             }
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Save a new note or list.
-     *
-     * Blank input is ignored rather than rejected: an empty save is a slip, not a
-     * mistake worth interrupting someone over.
-     */
-    fun create(content: String) {
-        val cleanContent = content.trim()
-        if (cleanContent.isEmpty()) return
-
-        viewModelScope.launch {
-            state = state.copy(saving = true)
-            state =
-                try {
-                    val created = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { core.createNote(draft(cleanContent)) }
-                    // Prepend rather than reload: the new note belongs at the top
-                    // of the board, and a full re-query would cost a round trip to
-                    // tell us what we already know. Skipped when the board is not
-                    // showing plain notes — a note created while looking at Trash
-                    // does not belong in that list.
-                    val notes =
-                        if (state.destination == Destination.Notes && !state.searching) {
-                            listOf(created) + state.notes
-                        } else {
-                            state.notes
-                        }
-                    // A capture sheet can carry a reminder in its text one day;
-                    // more to the point, this is a store write and the rule here is
-                    // that every store write re-derives the alarm rather than each
-                    // call site deciding whether its particular write could matter.
-                    withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { onRemindersChanged() }
-                    state.copy(notes = notes, saving = false, error = null)
-                } catch (e: Exception) {
-                    state.copy(saving = false, error = e.message ?: FALLBACK_ERROR)
-                }
-        }
-    }
-
     // ───────────────────────────────  the editor  ──────────────────────────────
 
     /**
@@ -238,12 +210,119 @@ class BoardViewModel(
     fun openNoteById(id: String) {
         viewModelScope.launch {
             runCatching { withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { core.getNote(id) } }
-                .onSuccess { state = state.copy(editing = it) }
+                .onSuccess { state = state.copy(editing = it, editingSession = state.editingSession + 1) }
         }
     }
 
     fun openNote(note: Note) {
-        state = state.copy(editing = note)
+        state = state.copy(editing = note, editingSession = state.editingSession + 1)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Open the editor on a note that does not exist yet.
+     *
+     * The + button used to raise a separate capture sheet, which meant a note being
+     * WRITTEN could not be given a colour, a reminder or a checklist — those live on
+     * the editor's toolbar, and the sheet had none. Writing and editing are now the
+     * same surface.
+     *
+     * The draft is a real [Note] carrying [DRAFT_ID] rather than a null, so the
+     * editor renders it without knowing that "not saved yet" is a state it can be
+     * in. It becomes a row on its first save; see [onDraftAction].
+     */
+    fun compose() {
+        draftDismissed = false
+        state = state.copy(editing = blankDraft(), editingSession = state.editingSession + 1)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set when a draft's editor closes, so a create still in flight does not reopen
+     * it. The editor flushes its text and then closes, and the flush is a coroutine —
+     * without this the note would be created, the screen would close, and the create
+     * would finish and put the screen back.
+     */
+    private var draftDismissed = false
+
+    /**
+     * The editor's actions, for a note that has no row yet.
+     *
+     * Everything a toolbar button does needs an id to act on, so the first action
+     * that needs one creates the note and replays itself against the real thing.
+     */
+    private fun onDraftAction(
+        draft: Note,
+        action: EditorAction,
+    ) {
+        when (action) {
+            // Nothing exists, so leaving leaves nothing behind — which is what makes
+            // tapping + and changing your mind free. Text typed before this point has
+            // already gone to createFromDraft via the editor's autosave or its flush.
+            EditorAction.Close, EditorAction.Trash -> {
+                draftDismissed = true
+                state = state.copy(editing = null)
+            }
+            EditorAction.DismissError -> dismissError()
+            is EditorAction.SaveText -> createFromDraft(action.body)
+            // Starting a checklist is the one toolbar action that means something on
+            // a note with no text: a note whose whole content is its items is a note
+            // this app already has (it is named from its first item). So it may
+            // create an empty one — anything else needs words first.
+            EditorAction.AddChecklist ->
+                createFromDraft(draft.body, allowEmpty = true) { created ->
+                    onEditorAction(created, action)
+                }
+            // Colour, reminder, pin, labels: attributes OF a note, so there has to be
+            // a note. With autosave at a second, "typed something" is true by the time
+            // anyone reaches the toolbar; before that there is nothing to attribute.
+            else -> createFromDraft(draft.body) { created -> onEditorAction(created, action) }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Turn a draft into a row, and keep the editor on it.
+     *
+     * Adopting the created note is what lets a session of autosaves stay one note:
+     * the second save sees a real id and updates rather than creating again.
+     */
+    private fun createFromDraft(
+        content: String,
+        allowEmpty: Boolean = false,
+        then: (Note) -> Unit = {},
+    ) {
+        val cleanContent = content.trim()
+        // A blank draft is not a note. Ignored rather than rejected: tapping + and
+        // walking away is a slip, not a mistake worth interrupting someone over.
+        if (cleanContent.isEmpty() && !allowEmpty) return
+        viewModelScope.launch {
+            state = state.copy(saving = true)
+            state =
+                try {
+                    val created = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { core.createNote(draft(cleanContent)) }
+                    // Prepend rather than reload: the new note belongs at the top of
+                    // the board, and a full re-query would cost a round trip to tell
+                    // us what we already know. Skipped when the board is not showing
+                    // plain notes — a note created while looking at Trash does not
+                    // belong in that list.
+                    val notes =
+                        if (state.destination == Destination.Notes && !state.searching) {
+                            listOf(created) + state.notes
+                        } else {
+                            state.notes
+                        }
+                    withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { onRemindersChanged() }
+                    // editingSession is NOT bumped: this is the same sitting, and the
+                    // editor's field must not be re-keyed underneath the typing.
+                    state.copy(
+                        notes = notes,
+                        editing = if (draftDismissed) state.editing else created,
+                        saving = false,
+                        error = null,
+                    )
+                } catch (e: Exception) {
+                    state.copy(saving = false, error = e.message ?: FALLBACK_ERROR)
+                }
+            if (!draftDismissed) state.editing?.let(then)
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -268,6 +347,10 @@ class BoardViewModel(
         note: Note,
         action: EditorAction,
     ) {
+        if (note.id == DRAFT_ID) {
+            onDraftAction(note, action)
+            return
+        }
         val id = note.id
         when (action) {
             EditorAction.Close -> state = state.copy(editing = null)
@@ -447,3 +530,33 @@ private fun draft(content: String): NoteDraft =
     // findable without anyone being asked to name it. A checklist is added afterwards,
     // in the editor — it is something a note HAS, not a different thing to capture.
     NoteDraft(body = content, color = DEFAULT_COLOR, items = null)
+
+/**
+ * The id a note has before it has been saved.
+ *
+ * A real id is a uuid, so the empty string cannot collide with one. Using a sentinel
+ * rather than making the editor's note nullable keeps "not saved yet" out of a screen
+ * that reads eight fields off the note and should not have to null-check any of them.
+ */
+internal const val DRAFT_ID = ""
+
+private fun blankDraft(): Note =
+    Note(
+        id = DRAFT_ID,
+        displayTitle = "",
+        body = "",
+        color = DEFAULT_COLOR,
+        position = 0,
+        pinned = false,
+        archived = false,
+        trashed = false,
+        deletedAt = null,
+        remindAt = null,
+        recurrence = null,
+        labels = emptyList(),
+        items = emptyList(),
+        attachments = emptyList(),
+        previews = emptyList(),
+        createdAt = null,
+        updatedAt = null,
+    )

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

@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-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.layout.fillMaxWidth
-import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.imePadding
-import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.navigationBarsPadding
-import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
-import androidx.compose.material3.Button
-import androidx.compose.material3.ExperimentalMaterial3Api
-import androidx.compose.material3.ModalBottomSheet
-import androidx.compose.material3.Text
-import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
-import androidx.compose.material3.rememberModalBottomSheetState
-import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
-import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
-import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
-import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
-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.unit.dp
-import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.R
-
-/**
- * The new-note surface, opened by the + button.
- *
- * A bottom sheet rather than a full screen: capture should feel like a quick aside
- * from the board, not a place you navigate to and have to come back from. The
- * board stays visible behind it, so the note lands somewhere you can already see.
- *
- * It asks note-or-list up front rather than making that a mode you discover later,
- * because on a phone the two are genuinely different typing tasks and switching
- * halfway is worse than choosing at the start.
- *
- * ## Leaving keeps what you wrote
- *
- * Every way out of this sheet except Discard SAVES: the save button, tapping the
- * board behind it, swiping down, back, and the app being backgrounded. A sheet
- * that throws away a typed thought because you touched outside it is a sheet that
- * teaches people not to trust the app with a thought — and capture is the one
- * place this product cannot afford that.
- *
- * The same shape the editor settled on, for the same reason, with one difference:
- * capture also has to be abandonable, because tapping + and changing your mind is
- * a normal thing to do. That is what Discard is, and it is the only path that
- * loses anything. An empty draft needs neither — it is simply dropped, since a
- * blank note nobody asked for is worse than no note at all.
- */
-@OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3Api::class)
-@Composable
-fun ComposeSheet(
-    saving: Boolean,
-    onDismiss: () -> Unit,
-    onSave: (String) -> Unit,
-) {
-    val sheetState = rememberModalBottomSheetState(skipPartiallyExpanded = true)
-    // Saveable, not just remembered: a rotation mid-sentence is the same lost
-    // thought as a discarded one, and it was losing it before this.
-    var content by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf("") }
-    val contentFocus = remember { FocusRequester() }
-
-    val written = content.isNotBlank()
-    val leave = { if (written) onSave(content) else onDismiss() }
-
-    // Straight into the one field there is. A capture is a thought, and every field
-    // someone has to tab past is the difference between "under a second" and not —
-    // which is why the title field is gone rather than merely skipped (M13 step 3).
-    LaunchedEffect(Unit) { contentFocus.requestFocus() }
-
-    // Backgrounding PERSISTS but does not close an empty sheet. Someone who tapped
-    // + and then got distracted should find the composer where they left it; the
-    // only reason to act here is that there is something to lose.
-    FlushOnStop { if (written) onSave(content) }
-
-    ModalBottomSheet(onDismissRequest = leave, sheetState = sheetState) {
-        Column(
-            modifier =
-                Modifier
-                    .fillMaxWidth()
-                    .padding(horizontal = 16.dp)
-                    .imePadding()
-                    .navigationBarsPadding(),
-            verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
-        ) {
-            // No note/list switch any more: there is one thing to capture. A
-            // checklist is added to a note in the editor, once there is a note.
-            PlainTextField(
-                value = content,
-                onValueChange = { content = it },
-                modifier = Modifier.focusRequester(contentFocus),
-                hint = R.string.compose_body_hint,
-                minLines = MIN_CONTENT_LINES,
-            )
-
-            SheetActions(
-                canSave = !saving && written,
-                onDiscard = onDismiss,
-                onSave = { onSave(content) },
-            )
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-@Composable
-private fun SheetActions(
-    canSave: Boolean,
-    onDiscard: () -> Unit,
-    onSave: () -> Unit,
-) {
-    Row(
-        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().padding(bottom = 16.dp),
-        horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.End,
-    ) {
-        // "Discard", not "Cancel". Cancel means "undo what I am doing", which is
-        // precisely what leaving no longer does — the word would now describe the
-        // one button it is NOT attached to.
-        TextButton(onClick = onDiscard) { Text(stringResource(R.string.compose_discard)) }
-        Button(onClick = onSave, enabled = canSave) {
-            Text(stringResource(R.string.compose_save))
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-private const val MIN_CONTENT_LINES = 4

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

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
 import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
 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
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.R
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.Label
 import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.Note
+import kotlinx.coroutines.delay
 
 /**
  * The note editor: a full screen, not a sheet.
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ import com.fabledsword.thoughtsync.core.Note
 @Composable
 fun NoteEditorScreen(
     note: Note,
+    sessionKey: Long,
     labels: List<Label>,
     saving: Boolean,
     error: String?,
@@ -63,19 +66,26 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
     val dark = isSystemInDarkTheme()
     val tint = noteTint(note.color)
 
-    // Keyed by note id: the editor is reused across notes, and without the key the
-    // second note opened would show the first one's text.
+    // 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,
+    // 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.
     //
     // 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
-        remember(note.id) {
+        rememberSaveable(sessionKey, stateSaver = TextFieldValue.Saver) {
             mutableStateOf(TextFieldValue(note.body, TextRange(note.body.length)))
         }
-    var picker by remember(note.id) { mutableStateOf(Picker.NONE) }
-    var confirmingDelete by remember(note.id) { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    var picker by remember(sessionKey) { mutableStateOf(Picker.NONE) }
+    var confirmingDelete by remember(sessionKey) { mutableStateOf(false) }
 
     // A note in the trash is a record, not a document: editing one would silently
     // resurrect work that was meant to be thrown away. It renders read-only, with
@@ -104,10 +114,27 @@ fun NoteEditorScreen(
     // 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() }
-    LaunchedEffect(note.id) {
+    LaunchedEffect(sessionKey) {
         if (!readOnly) bodyFocus.requestFocus()
     }
 
+    // Idle-debounced autosave. LaunchedEffect cancels and restarts on every
+    // keystroke, so the delay only ever elapses once typing stops.
+    //
+    // Saving this often is affordable because a body write no longer costs a
+    // revision: history snapshots once per editing session rather than once per
+    // save. Before that, writing was expensive enough that this editor hoarded
+    // text until it closed — and an app kill mid-session lost the lot.
+    //
+    // 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
+        delay(AUTOSAVE_IDLE_MS)
+        onAction(EditorAction.SaveText(body.text))
+    }
+
     BackHandler(onBack = leave)
 
     // Leaving the APP is not closing the editor, so the text has to be saved
@@ -303,4 +330,13 @@ private fun EditorField(
     )
 }
 
+/**
+ * How long typing has to stop before the note is written.
+ *
+ * Long enough that a normal sentence is one write, short enough that nothing
+ * meaningful is at risk if the app dies. The flush on close and [FlushOnStop] still
+ * cover the window between the last keystroke and this elapsing.
+ */
+private const val AUTOSAVE_IDLE_MS = 1_000L
+
 private const val MIN_BODY_LINES = 6

android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml

@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@
 
     <!-- Compose sheet -->
     <string name="compose_open">New note</string>
-    <string name="compose_body_hint">Take a note…</string>
-    <string name="compose_discard">Discard</string>
-    <string name="compose_save">Save</string>
 
     <!-- Board -->
     <string name="board_empty_note">Empty note</string>
@@ -38,7 +35,7 @@
     <string name="board_open_note">Open note</string>
     <string name="editor_back">Back to notes</string>
     <string name="editor_add_checklist">Add a checklist</string>
-    <string name="editor_body_hint">Note</string>
+    <string name="editor_body_hint">Take a note…</string>
     <string name="editor_add_item">Add item</string>
     <string name="editor_remove_item">Remove item</string>
     <string name="editor_remove_label">Remove label</string>