thoughtsync

Two of M7's motion targets. prefers-reduced-motion was already in place from the
1999 pass and gates both of these for free.

FILTERED REFLOW. The three card grids become TransitionGroups sharing one
transition name, so "how the board moves" is defined once in CSS rather than
three times in markup. Vue's TransitionGroup does the FLIP itself — measure
before, measure after, transition the difference away — so no animation
dependency, which the task called for.

Leavers are deliberately NOT pulled out of flow with position:absolute, the usual
TransitionGroup trick. This masonry is CSS multi-column, and an absolutely
positioned child escapes its column to the container's origin: a note would fly
diagonally across the board on its way out. Keeping leavers in flow costs a small
settle when the element is finally removed, so the leave is the shortest of the
three durations.

EDITOR CONTINUITY. useNoteEditor.open() is the one place that knows which card
was clicked, so that is where the card's on-screen centre is captured; the editor
panel then scales from that point. Deliberately not a true shared-element morph:
scaling by the real card-to-panel ratio distorts the text on the way, and a card
is often a third of the modal, so an honest ratio reads as a zoom rather than a
transition. The task sanctioned a good-enough scale/position tween; this is that.

A point rather than a rect, because nothing needs the card's size and a point
survives the card being filtered away while the editor is open. Consumed on read,
so a compose — which has no card — cannot inherit the origin of whatever was
edited before it and grow from an arbitrary corner.

The animation lives inside NoteEditor rather than in the five views that render
it: the leave has to finish BEFORE the host unmounts, so the component owns its
own visibility and tells the host when it is done. visible starts true with
`appear`, because the panel lives inside that v-if and would not exist to measure
otherwise. The origin is measured with offsetLeft/offsetTop rather than
getBoundingClientRect — enter-from has already applied scale(0.94) by then, so
the bounding rect is of the shrunken panel and the origin would land off by a few
pixels. Offsets are layout geometry and ignore transforms.

Durations are 140-220ms. The brief is continuity, so a card should read as having
moved, not as having performed.

NOT verified: motion is a visual property and there is no frontend test lane, no
device, and no app run here. vue-tsc proves it compiles. Whether it FEELS right
is an operator live pass, which is what M7's own verification section asks for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-17 12:55:21 -04:00