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Two things the operator hit on a real device. **Capture threw work away.** Every exit from the compose sheet except Save discarded it — tapping the board behind, swiping down, back, backgrounding the app, and rotating the phone. That is the wrong default anywhere and the worst possible one here: a sheet that loses a typed thought because you touched outside it teaches people not to trust the app with a thought, and capture is the one place this product cannot afford that. Now every way out saves, which is the shape the editor already settled on. The difference is that capture also has to be abandonable — tapping + and changing your mind is normal — so Discard exists and is the only path that loses anything. It is called Discard rather than Cancel because "cancel" means "undo what I am doing", which is precisely what leaving no longer does; the word would have described the one button it is not attached to. An empty draft needs neither and is simply dropped: a blank note nobody asked for is worse than none. Backgrounding persists but does NOT close an empty sheet. Someone who tapped + and got distracted should find the composer where they left it. Rotation was losing it twice over: the draft was `remember`, and so was the flag saying the sheet is open. Both are `rememberSaveable` now, along with the sync screen's — the editor never had the bug because the note it sits on lives in a view model, and these were the only screen state that did not. `FlushOnStop` moves out of NoteEditorScreen into its own file; the editor and the capture sheet want the identical thing for the identical reason, and it was about to be copied. **The board had a centimetre of nothing above the search field.** `SearchBar` applied `statusBarsPadding()` inside a `Scaffold` whose content padding already carries the system-bar insets — `ScaffoldDefaults.contentWindowInsets` is `systemBarsForVisualComponents`, checked in the material3 sources rather than assumed. So the status bar height was reserved twice on the first screen anyone sees. Insets get consumed once, by whichever component owns the edge.
ThoughtSync
Self-hosted personal thought-capture web app in the FabledSword family — a
Google-Keep-style masonry post-it board for capturing disparate thoughts in
under a second, designed to grow into a lightweight second brain (labels, search,
[[wiki-links]], graph).
- Stack: Quart (async Python) + Vue 3 + PostgreSQL, Docker, Fabled-Git CI.
- Auth: native email + password (signed-cookie sessions). Multi-user with the family owner + direct-share + group-share ACL.
- Web-first. An Android companion is a later, conditional milestone.
Layout
src/thoughtsync/ Quart app (app factory, auth, models, ACL, config, db)
alembic/ async migrations (schema built via `alembic upgrade head`)
tests/ DB-free unit tests (pytest)
frontend/ Vue 3 + Vite + TypeScript + Tailwind SPA
Dockerfile 2-stage build (Vue -> python:3.12-slim runtime)
docker-compose.yml local app + Postgres stack
Development
Backend (needs a Postgres reachable at THOUGHTSYNC_DATABASE_URL):
pip install -e ".[dev]"
alembic upgrade head
hypercorn 'thoughtsync.app:create_app()' --bind 0.0.0.0:5000
Frontend (proxies /api to :5000):
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:5173
Or run it in Docker. Hot-reload dev stack (edit code, changes reload live) — Postgres + backend + Vite dev server, app at http://localhost:5173:
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up
Or the full production image (SPA baked in) at http://localhost:5000:
docker compose up --build
Deploy (self-host)
A complete two-container stack (app + Postgres) you can copy and run. Save it as
docker-compose.yml, change the two CHANGE_ME passwords (they must match), then
docker compose up -d:
services:
db:
image: postgres:16-alpine
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: thoughtsync
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: CHANGE_ME # change this
POSTGRES_DB: thoughtsync
volumes:
- thoughtsync-db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U thoughtsync"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 5s
retries: 10
app:
image: git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/thoughtsync:latest # :dev for the current dev build
restart: unless-stopped
depends_on:
db:
condition: service_healthy
environment:
THOUGHTSYNC_DATABASE_URL: postgresql+asyncpg://thoughtsync:CHANGE_ME@db:5432/thoughtsync
volumes:
- thoughtsync-data:/var/thoughtsync # uploaded images; omit if you don't use attachments
ports:
- "5000:5000"
volumes:
thoughtsync-db:
thoughtsync-data:
Then open http://<host>:5000 and register — the first account becomes the admin.
- Only
THOUGHTSYNC_DATABASE_URLis required.THOUGHTSYNC_SECRET_KEYis optional; if unset, a signing key is generated and persisted in the database (sessions survive restarts). - Uploaded images live under the
thoughtsync-datavolume at/var/thoughtsync. - The app waits for the database and runs migrations (
alembic upgrade head) automatically on start. - Image tags:
:latest(stable, built frommain) ·:dev(latestdevbuild) ·:<git-sha>(immutable, for pinning / rollback). - Install as an app (PWA): ThoughtSync is installable ("Add to Home Screen" / the
browser's install button) for an app-like window. Browsers only offer install over a
secure context, so put the app behind a reverse proxy terminating HTTPS (or reach
it via
localhost) — plainhttp://<host>:5000won't show the install prompt.
Milestones
- M0 — Foundation & Identity ✅: Quart+Vue+Postgres skeleton, native auth, sharing-ACL spine, Fabled-Git CI.
- M1 — Capture Core ✅: note model + masonry board (quick-add, colors, pin, edit-in-place, archive, trash+restore).
- M1.5 — Roles & DB-backed Settings ✅: first user is admin, admin Settings UI,
DATABASE_URLis the only required env. - M2 — Organize: labels/tags, search, checklists, attachments.
- M3 — Second-brain seeds:
[[wiki-links]], backlinks, graph view, reminders. - M4 — Launch hardening: responsive/PWA, settings UI, polish.
Work happens on dev; main is protected (PR-only).