Step 2 rewrote the notes already on disk and, because the sync_revision trigger fires, every client pulls them. So this is not about existing notes. It is about the ones typed from now on. Without it: you type `#todo` on its own line, the core stores it as written, and a second later the push comes back and the text disappears under you. Offline it never lifts at all until you reconnect. Two surfaces disagreeing about what a note says is the thing this codebase mirrors rules to avoid. `lift_standalone_tags` in derive.rs is the mirror of `split_body_tags`, case for case, with the same two guards — a fenced line is code and is never touched, and a note that is nothing but tags keeps its text. ONE SCANNER, not two. `extract_tags` is rewritten over the same `line_tags` the lift uses, so the two cannot disagree about what a tag is. Line-by-line changes nothing, since a line start and a `\n` are both boundaries, and the existing tag tests still pin it. Char indices rather than byte offsets for the spans, because they are used to cut the tags back out of the line and a byte offset can land mid-codepoint. `sync_tags` becomes `lift_and_sync_tags` and is named for the mutation: it now rewrites notes.body, and all three callers write the body immediately before calling, so it overwrites what they wrote on purpose. The graduation case is handled the same way as on the server — flip the row before the delete pass, or the same row is dropped for no longer being in the body and the tag is silently lost. One thing the server needed and this does not: display_title. The core derives it on READ rather than storing it, so there is no persisted copy to go stale. The rename was done with a lookbehind rather than a plain substitution, after the same operation an hour ago turned the function it had just written into `_lift_and_lift_and_reconcile_tags`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>